All articles by Cecilia Valente – Page 16
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Watson Wyatt’s Sweden MD leaves amid revamp
SWEDEN – Erik Linder-Aronson, managing director of Watson Wyatt’s Stockholm office, has left the firm amid a restructuring of the firm’s benefits consulting team in Sweden.
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Splitting alpha/beta doubles returns – SSGA
EUROPE – Separating the management of alpha from beta could lead pension funds to doubling their expected returns, according to State Street Global Advisers’ Alan Brown.
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Fortis nabs E&Y’s Collins for client role
EUROPE – Fortis Bank has appointed Ernst &Young’s Andrew Collins to the role of head of European client relationships.
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Italian pension funds return 4.5% - Covip
ITALY – Italian pension funds returned up to 4.5% in 2004, bringing the total value of assets to €8bn, according to Luigi Scimia, head of pension regulator Covip.
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Fund management industry ‘still immature’
GLOBAL – The asset management community must come to terms with the emotional and psychological aspects that come with the strategic changes it is undergoing, according to a think tank.
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LODH hires KAS Bank’s Kramer (Correct)
(Corrects name) NETHERLANDS – Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch Asset Management has appointed KAS Bank’s Ben Kramer in a bid to stem a loss of institutional business in Benelux.
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Watson Wyatt’s Watts to take sabbatical
UK - Nick Watts, head of European investment consulting at Watson Wyatt, is to take a sabbatical in the autumn.
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South Yorkshire invests in Hermes hedge funds
UK - The £2.7bn (€3.91bn) South Yorkshire Pensions Authority has made “an initial investment” in the Guernsey-domiciled fund of hedge funds vehicle launched by Hermes Pensions Management.
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French reserve fund staying away from bonds
FRANCE – The €19.2bn French reserve fund, Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, says it is currently holding off from fixed income investments because of low yields.
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CalPERS confirms Feckner as president
US – The $182bn (€139.4bn) California Public Employees’ Retirement System, under attack from state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, has elected Rob Feckner as president.
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Enel's Fopen looks for new managers
ITALY – Fopen, the €360m pension scheme of the partly privatised state energy and gas producer Enel, has put out a request for tenders for its new 90% bond portfolio.
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DeAM, SSGA, BGI lose Shropshire mandates
UK – Deutsche Asset Management, State Street Global Advisers and Barclays Global Investors have lost equity mandates worth a combined £160m (€231m) after a shake-up at Shropshire County Council Pension Fund.
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Dutch doctors implement new accounting system
NETHERLANDS – The €11bn Dutch doctors pension fund SBA has implemented a new portfolio management and accounting system.
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Dutch fund tenders enhanced brief via IPE-Quest
THE NETHERLANDS – A Dutch pension fund has launched a request for tenders for an enhanced developed Asian equity mandate worth in the region of $100m (€77.02m).
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Schroders tops ranking for cross border net sales
EUROPE - Global asset manager Schroders has been ranked number one for cross border net sales in 2004 by research and data collection company, FERI Fund Market Information.
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Banque Nagelmackers’ Sabine Riga joins ING
BELGIUM – Sabine Riga, formerly portfolio manager for institutional clients with Banque Nagelmackers, has joined ING Investment Management as head of marketing and sales institutional clients, Belgium.
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Italy’s Trentino to set up regional scheme
ITALY- The semi-autonomous region Trentino Alto Adige is setting up the first regional pension fund in Italy, in the wake of the changes brought by pension reform.
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UK fund tenders mid-large cap briefs via IPE-Quest
UK – A UK corporate pension fund has tendered two actively managed mid-large cap equity briefs, each worth about $100m (€77.02), through IPE-Quest.
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CalPERS returns 13.5% in 2004
US -The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) posted a 13.5% return last year, with corporate governance investments gaining about 28%.
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Ex-Isis institutional chief joins boutique
UK - Howard Daldorph, the former director of institutional funds for ISIS, has joined a boutique called Reabourne Technology Investment Management as marketing director, a new role.
