Asset Managers – Page 406
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Eureko to buy F&C for e662m
UK: Foreign & Colonial is being added to Eureko's asset management portfolio following its agreed sale by Germany's HypoVereinsbank for e662m.
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Swedish kommun takes on foreign equity managers
Sweden - The SEK100m Swedish kommun of Partille has selected Carlson Investment Management and Länsförsäkringar Wasa to Swedish balanced mandates of SEK40m each and pulled in overseas managers Fidelity and Indocam to manage SEK10m apiece in global equity funds.
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Allied Irish gets GIPS go ahead
IRELAND - Allied Irish Bank’s fund management house, AIB Investment Managers (AIBIM), has become one of the first Irish managers to be certified GIPS (Global Investment Performance Standards) compliant.
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Petroleum fund puts US$3.5bn up for grabs
NORWAY - Norway’s government petroleum fund is seeking proposals from managers for specialist mandates, that might be worth up to US$3.5m in total
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EDF charges up PIMCO and AGF
Paris based Eléctricité de France (EDF) – the French electricity provider - has selected Pimco Global Advisers and AGF Asset Management – both under the new Allianz PIMCO Asset Management grouping - to jointly run a significant global bond mandate worth tens of millions of euros.
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BfG and Gerling to become German financial giant
Germany - BfG bank and Cologne-based industrial insurer Gerling Group have signalled their intention to co-operate on insurance, internet banking, brokerage and asset management, with a view to possible expansion in Europe.
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Calor cuts off P&D and Merrill
UK - The UK retirement benefits fund for gas group Calor has dropped Phillips & Drew and Merrill Lynch from a pair of £140m balanced mandates
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Nomura launches Japanese tech fund
London based Nomura Asset Management UK (NAM) has launched a Japanese technology fund to compliment its range of Far East funds for European investors.
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Baring gets Boosey money
The £21mUK Boosey & Hawkes pension scheme has handed a £10m fixed-income mandate to Baring Asset Management
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Consultant covets multi-manager business
UK - Consulting actuary and pension administrator Punter Southall is to merge with South Africa’s Gensec International Asset Management in a bid to enter the multi manager market..
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Interest wanes in PPM funds
SWEDEN - Fewer Swedes in the South have made a personal investment choice under the new PPM system than their fellow countrymen in the North
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Stadlmann joins WestAM
AUSTRIA - Markus Stadlmann has been appointed as product specialist for global balanced mandates at WestAM.
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Another trophy for Carlson
SWEDEN - The Swedish municipality of Bollnäs has appointed Skandia owned Carlson Investment Management in Stockholm to run a SEK140m (e16.3m) international equity portfolio - replacing incumbents Alfred Berg Asset Management.
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Sampo scoops Mandatum
FINLAND - Sampo-Leonia, Finland's largest financial group, is set to take over Helsinki-based Mandatum Bank in a stock swap deal with a share in Sampo-Leonia offered for every five and a half shares in Mandatum.
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Dutch funds build for the future
NETHERLANDS - Six Dutch pension funds will move into the same building next year, in a move which could herald future investment collaboration.
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APAM adjusts European focus
EUROPE - Allianz PIMCO Asset Management (APAM) is reshaping its European investment management business in a move it says will introduce best practice and avoid marketing conflicts across the continent.
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Securities lending online
USA - CalPERS, the $160bn California Public Employee's Retirement System has announced that it has joined forces with South Africa's Old Mutual to establish eSecLending, LLC, a new firm offering a web-based auction system for securities lending.
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Three more funds opt for BGI
UK - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has been awarded three new mandates by the UK based pension funds of companies ArvinMenitor, Lasmo and Thomson Directories'.
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Russell switch
UK - Frank Russell has appointed AXA Rosenberg Investment Management to manage a Europe ex-UK Broad Market portfolio, previously run by Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM).
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Cornwall splits global mandate
UK - The £600m (e990m) Cornwall County Council Superannuation Fund has split a Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) global balanced mandate into two, following a review in conjunction with consultants Hymans Robertson.
