All IPE articles in December 2000 (Online) – Page 2

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    AP funds in competition

    2000-12-08T04:35:00Z

    SWEDEN - Management of Sweden’s pay as you go pension system is undergoing a major restructuring due to finish by the beginning of next year.

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    Something for everyone

    2000-12-08T04:37:00Z

    EU - It was expected to be the final piece of the European financial services jigsaw. In time-honoured European tradition, though, it came as something of a shape-shifter … a little bit of everything for everybody.

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    Cross-border sponsors

    2000-12-08T04:39:00Z

    EU - Speaking at the Brussels press conference on the launch of the directive, European internal market commissioner Frits Bolkestein noted that ‘obligation’ was a difficult tack for the Commission to take with member states regarding pensions, when questioned about the directive in the light of Europe’s demographic problems.

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    Pension bodies' soundbites

    2000-12-08T04:42:00Z

    EU - Soundbites from European pension bodies’ directors.

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    Exel appoints Chase Manhattan

    2000-12-08T04:46:00Z

    UK - Exel Retirement Plan has appointed Chase Manhattan Bank's global investor services division to provide global custody for approximately £1bn (E1.7bn) in assets.

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    Northamptonshire county appoints Northern Trust

    2000-12-08T04:47:00Z

    UK - Northamptonshire county council has appointed Northern Trust to provide global custody for its £750 (E1.12bn) pension fund.

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    EC take on 'sustainability'

    2000-12-08T04:50:00Z

    EU - The European Commission has issued a communication looking at the sustainability of pensions and how best to maintain adequate pension provision while keeping public economies in "good shape."

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    Bacon and Callan reach parting of ways

    2000-12-08T04:52:00Z

    UK - consulting actuary firm Bacon & Woodrow and US consultants Callan Associates are set to unravel their global consultancy relationship.

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    Van Rees stays on at EFRP

    2000-12-08T04:54:00Z

    EUROPE - Kees van Rees will remain chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) until at least October 2001, after he was elected to remain in his current position at the EFRP's annual conference meeting of members in October.

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    Howlett quits Baillie Gifford

    2000-12-08T04:56:00Z

    UK - Gareth Howlett, who was a director for Baillie Gifford Overseas, has joined Edinburgh-based Stewart Ivory Wealth Management, the private client division of Colonial First State Division which has assets for £22bn.

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    New manager system launched

    2000-12-08T04:58:00Z

    SWITZERLAND - Felix Kottman, executive vice president of St Gallen based Swiss consultants Complementa, has launched managerselection.com - a new internet based data platform for pension funds, consultants and asset management companies.

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    Myners calls for custodians for all

    2000-12-08T05:05:00Z

    UK - Paul Myners, the Gartmore chief executive reviewing the UK pension fund industry, has recommended to chancellor Gordon Brown and secretary of state Alistair Darling that UK pension funds employ custodians to oversee their assets.

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    Cornwall splits global mandate

    2000-12-08T05:06:00Z

    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.

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    Russell switch

    2000-12-08T05:08:00Z

    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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    Three more funds opt for BGI

    2000-12-08T05:09:00Z

    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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    Securities lending online

    2000-12-12T09:58:00Z

    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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    Settlements across borders

    2000-12-12T09:59:00Z

    EUROPE - SIS SegaInterSettle, the Swiss settlement system, and its UK partner, CRESTCo, have started co-operation to offer cross-border securities settlement in pan-European exchange trading.

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    Diageo decides on custodian

    2000-12-12T10:00:00Z

    UK - The UK-based Diageo Pension Scheme has re-appointed The Bank of New York (BNY) to act as global custodian for its fund, valued at £3.6bn (e6bn)

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    APAM adjusts European focus

    2000-12-13T01:03:00Z

    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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    Dutch funds build for the future

    2000-12-13T01:04:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - Six Dutch pension funds will move into the same building next year, in a move which could herald future investment collaboration.