All IPE articles in December 2000 (Online) – Page 3

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    Sampo scoops Mandatum

    2000-12-13T01:06:00Z

    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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    Merlin to reappear as DG's assistant

    2000-12-13T01:15:00Z

    EUROPE - One of the European Commission's prominent players in the recent draft directive launch will leave his post in the new year...

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    Another trophy for Carlson

    2000-12-13T12:09:00Z

    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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    Stadlmann joins WestAM

    2000-12-13T12:10:00Z

    AUSTRIA - Markus Stadlmann has been appointed as product specialist for global balanced mandates at WestAM.

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    Finns to examine competition option

    2000-12-13T12:11:00Z

    FINLAND - The Finnish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs has set up a working group to look at competition elements between pension institutions in the country.

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    FCPE shift

    2000-12-13T12:13:00Z

    FRANCE - The marked shift into shares within France’s FCPE (Fonds Communs de Placement D’Entreprise) individual company savings plans, is under scrutiny following recent dips in the equity markets, according to Richard Deville, managing director of Watson Wyatt in Paris.

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    Myners spells out end of MFR

    2000-12-13T12:14:00Z

    UK - As expected Paul Myners, the chief executive of Gartmore, has recommended in his interim report on the UK pension fund industry that the minimum funding requirement be scrapped as a safeguard for pension funds.

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    Dutch doctors' funds to collaborate with PGGM

    2000-12-13T12:15:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - The Netherlands' second largest pension fund, the Dfl110bn (e50bn) PGGM scheme, has signed a letter of intent on collaboration with the board of the Fl25bn (e11bn) Dutch Doctors' Pension Funds (Artsenpensioenfondsen).

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    Commission updates investment directive

    2000-12-13T12:16:00Z

    EU - The changes in investing services and securities trading in the European Union have forced the European Commission to update the Investment Services Directive (ISD), which has been in force for five years.

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    Danske to launch new private equity fund

    2000-12-13T12:59:00Z

    DENMARK – Danske Capital Management will seek institutional capital for a new private equity fund of funds in the first half of next year

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    Interest wanes in PPM funds

    2000-12-14T06:36:00Z

    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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    Multinational asset questionnaire

    2000-12-14T06:37:00Z

    Bacon & Woodrow in collaboration with IPE have conducted a survey on the use of common pension asset managers by multinationals in different countries

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    Consultant covets multi-manager business

    2000-12-14T06:38:00Z

    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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    Spanish government postpones outsourcing deadline

    2000-12-14T09:53:00Z

    SPAIN - The deadline for outsourcing of pension commitments by Spanish companies has been put back by two years due to low levels of compliance

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    German employees to lead the way

    2000-12-15T05:18:00Z

    GERMANY - German workers may be able to force employers to implement hybrid DB/DC second pillar pension plans under forthcoming German pensions legislation

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    Baring gets Boosey money

    2000-12-15T05:38:00Z

    The £21mUK Boosey & Hawkes pension scheme has handed a £10m fixed-income mandate to Baring Asset Management

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    Nomura launches Japanese tech fund

    2000-12-15T05:40:00Z

    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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    Socialists call for separate pensions directives

    2000-12-15T05:42:00Z

    EUROPE - The European parliament should introduce two supplementary pensions directives, says Wilfried Kuckelkorn - rapporteur for the parliament’s socialist party

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    Romanian government approves private pension funds

    2000-12-19T03:15:00Z

    ROMANIA - Romanians will have private pensions by 2002 after the government gave the go-ahead to universal pension funds (UPFs).

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    Martin flies south this winter

    2000-12-19T03:16:00Z

    Ray Martin, former vice chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) is taking up a new position as vice president of compensation and benefits at Airbus Industrie, Toulouse, in the south of France.