All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 195
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Belgian SRI firm Ethibel swings to 2002 loss
BELGIUM – Socially responsible investing company Ethibel posted a loss of 167,193 euros in 2002, compared to a profit of 59,092 euros in 2001.
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New Dutch governance code targets shareholders
NETHERLANDS – New Dutch corporate governance proposals have been published which aim to strengthen the role of shareholders and company supervisory boards.
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Mercer accuses UK of “misleading” pension claims
UK – Mercer Human Resource Consulting says the UK government has made misleading claims about the level of pension incentives in the tax system.
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Pension funds “seeking alternatives to equities”
EUROPE – European pension funds are showing a clear desire to invest in assets which are not correlated to equities, according to a new report from J P Morgan Fleming Asset Management.
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Hoogovens makes one millionth IPE.com “hit”
EUROPE – IPE.com has reached one million article reads – with a portfolio manager with a Dutch corporate pension fund winning the prize for becoming the one millionth reader.
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UK makes proposal to raise retirement age to 70
UK – The UK government has outlined proposals to raise the retirement age to 70 – though the plans are only seen as tackling part of the problem.
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Edinburgh Fund Managers in bid talks
UK - Edinburgh Fund Managers has confirmed that it is reviewing its options and that it is in bid talks.
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Aon in talks to buy ABN Amro’s Consultas actuarial unit
NETHERLANDS – Aon Consulting’s Dutch arm is in talks to buy actuarial consultant Consultas from ABN Amro.
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Watson Wyatt hires Roelofs to head Dutch arm
NETHERLANDS – Watson Wyatt has hired Deutsche Asset Management’s Gerard Roelofs as head of its investment consulting practice in the Netherlands, Watson Wyatt Brans.
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Metalektro taps Goldman for E750m brief
NETHERLANDS – The 11.7 billion euro Pensioenfonds Metalektro has appointed Goldman Sachs Asset Management to manage a 750 million euro asset allocation and active currency mandate.
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Five new mandates tendered via IPE-Quest
EUROPE – There have been five new mandates tendered via IPE-Quest, one from a Scandinavian industry-wide pension fund and four from a Swiss corporate pension fund.
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UK’s Greenwich names State Street as custodian
UK – The 400 million pound (573 million euro) Greenwich Superannuation Fund in London has appointed State Street Corp. as global custodian.
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Stoxx names Lombard Odier’s von Werra as MD
SWITZERLAND – Index group Stoxx has named Elizabeth von Werra, a fund manager at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, as its new managing director.
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Features
FTSE moves ruffles DJ Stoxx feathers
There has been a lively reaction to the arrival of the FTSEurofirst tradeable indices series from the FTSE Group and Euronext, with Dow Jones Stoxx branding the product as a copy of its DJ Stoxx 50. In late spring, the FTSEurofirst 80, representing Euro-zone performance and the FTSEEurofirst 100 covering ...
