All IPE articles in December 2001 (Online)
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Roelli to head up Pictet financial research
SWITZERLAND – Alfred Roelli has been appointed to head up the financial research department at Geneva based Pictet & Cie, replacing Philippe Treyvaud, who is retiring at the end of the year....
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State Street names Logue as new president
UK - State Street Corporation has named Ronald Logue, the current vice chairman, chief operating officer, and director of the group, as the new president of the company....
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Russell/Mellon buys performance measurer CAPS
UK/EUROPE – CAPS, the UK performance measurement company, jointly owned by Bacon & Woodrow, Watson Wyatt and William M. Mercer has been sold to Russell/Mellon Analytic Services, in a deal that will see a merger of the Russell/Mellon and CAPS UK and European Businesses....
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New Star guaranteed hedge fund closes at $180m
UK – The first capital guaranteed hedge fund launched by New Star International Investment Products has raised more than $180m (e201m) - a record for a single manager equity guaranteed hedge fund, according to New Star....
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CSAM CEO Colebatch to resign in 2002
SWITZERLAND - Phillip Colebatch, the chief executive officer of Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), is to retire during the first quarter of 2002 after 17 years with the group.....
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PGGM outsources systems construction
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the e50bn Dutch pension fund for workers in the healthcare and social sector, has outsourced the construction of its internal asset management operating systems to the European arm of US firm Financial Models Company (FMC)....
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Institutional 'alternatives' exposure doubles
EUROPE – Institutional investors are increasingly turning to alternative investments in an attempt to boost returns, claims joint research undertaken by Goldman Sachs and Frank Russell....
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AMJPE to run £20m Greater Manchester venture fund
UK – The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) is to create a new £20m venture capital for investment in local business with Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity (AMJPE) winning the tender to act as advisors to the fund....
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Wuffli replaces Arnold after shock UBS sacking
SWITZERLAND – Swiss international banking group, UBS, has announced several top level group board changes, with Peter Wuffli, former chief executive officer (CEO) of UBS Asset Management taking over as president of the group executive board....
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Allianz to lead investment for German fund giant
GERMANY – Allianz is to lead a consortium of managers including Victoria Versicherung, BHW and Westdeutsche Landesbank (WestLB) in running the assets of the newly established Metall-Rente, the industry wide retirement provision company for the 4 million strong German metal, electronics, steel and textiles industries....
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Portuguese pensions law in limbo after PM resigns
PORTUGAL – Yesterday’s shock resignation of Portuguese prime minister, Antonio Guterres, after local elections swept his Socialist party from power in the country’s main cities and towns, has left the fate of proposed new pensions laws up in the air....
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Antici to head Goldman's emerging markets team
UK - Gabriella Antici is to relocate from Brazil to London in the New Year to become head of the global emerging market equity team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management...
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SFIM triumphs in Swedish pan-European equity RFP
SWEDEN – Singer & Friedlander Investment Management (SFIM) has won the mandate to run a pan-European equity portfolio for Procordias Pensionsstiftelse II....
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Parsons to head up EFG AM global marketing push
UK – EFG Asset Management, part of the global EFG banking group, has hired John Parsons, a former sales director for Barclays International Funds, to become its marketing director....
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Russell snaps up £40m Kodak equity mandate
UK - The £905m Kodak Limited Pension Plan, has hired multi-manager specialist Frank Russell Company to run a £40 million global equity mandate....
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Handelsbanken wins SKr920m AstraZeneca bond brief
SWEDEN – Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca has appointed Handelsbanken to run a new Swedish fixed income portfolio within its SKr2.3bn (€243.3m) pension fund....
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Rothschild engineers £56m FKI bond brief
UK - Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) has been appointed by the trustees of the FKI Group Pension Scheme to manage the fund’s £56m bond exposure....
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Institutions lobby Germany on takeover directive
UK/GERMANY – A number of UK and US institutional investors, including Hermes, the investment manager of the British Telecom pension fund and Morley Fund Management, have written to the German government in protest at the country’s controversial opt-out clause from the EU corporate takeover directive.....
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MFS wins SFr50m CERN pensions mandate
SWITZERLAND/UK – The Centre Europeén pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) the Geneva based European nuclear research centre, has appointed London based MFS International to run a SFr50m (€33.9m) active European equity mandate within its pension fund....
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Reuters report reveals fears over Myners review
UK – The potential introduction of single fee structures and an end to “soft commissions” is the hottest subject among fund managers thrown up by the Myners review of institutional investment, claims research undertaken by Reuters into the review’s impact on the fund management and financial industries....
