All IPE articles in December 2001 (Online) – Page 4
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Spain to give companies tax boost for pensions
SPAIN - Spain looks set to introduce new rules on occupational pension schemes in the New Year after approval in the senate on rules to equalise pension fund board membership as well as give a tax boost to companies making pension contributions.....
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Morley hires Tremblay for global COO role
UK - Morley Fund Management has appointed David Tremblay as global chief operating officer with responsibility for the group’s operations, IT, facilities and change management functions.....
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Parliament calls for financial services experts
EUROPE – The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs is to set up a panel of financial services experts to advise it on the package of measures outlined in the Financial Services Action Plan - which includes the European pensions directive, and the Lamfalussy report.....
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Mercer lures Barclays' Lacey to communications job
UK - Rosie Lacey has joined consultants William M. Mercer as a senior communications consultant....
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Callund scoops award for Russian pensions work
UK/RUSSIA - Callund Consulting has been named British Small Consultancy Firm of the Year in recognition of its work on pension reform in Russia.....
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Nordea forms new asset management division
DENMARK – Copenhagen based financial group, Nordea, has formed a new asset management and life assurance business, Nordea Asset Management & Life, which itself will be subdivided into six business units....
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BFr8bn Flanders tender reaches second phase
BELGIUM – The selection process to appoint asset managers for the BFr8bn (€2bn) Flanders healthcare fund has entered its second phase, though no final announcement is expected before next spring, says Edwin De Boeck, managing director of KBC Asset Management in Brussels....
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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....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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....
