All IPE articles in December 2001 (Online) – Page 4
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Mercer signs up AXA institutional chief as partner
UK/EUROPE - Kathryn Matthews, the former global head of institutional business at AXA Investment Managers, has joined consultants William M. Mercer as a senior consultant and European Partner.....
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BVCA initiates 'valuation' working party
UK/EUROPE – The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has set up a working party to examine issues surrounding valuation guidelines, consulting widely across Europe with member firms, investors, the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA), and the accounting profession amongst others....
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IAPF sets up special Irish pensions tax seminar
IRELAND – The Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF) has organised a special seminar of Irish pensions experts to take place this month in order to discuss the problem of taxation and retirement provision....
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PGGM announces new 'Careon' insurance arm
NETHERLANDS – The e48bn PGGM pension fund for the Dutch healthcare sector has re-branded its insurance division as Careon, in line with legislation to come into the Netherlands from January 1 next year....
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UK DB scheme closures double in one year
UK – The number of companies that have closed their defined benefit (DB) schemes to new members has more than doubled over the last year, according to the National Association of Pension Funds’ (NAPF) annual survey of UK pension funds....
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European Union adopts new UCITS directives
EUROPE – ECOFIN, The European Council of Finance Ministers has adopted the two European Directives to expand the market in unit trusts and UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities)....
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Irish budget heralds pension scheme tax cuts
IRELAND – The Irish government has announced tax cuts on occupational pension schemes and a rise in the state pension in its 2002 budget....
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170,000 textile workers join German pensions giant
GERMANY – The 170,000 strong West German textiles and clothing industry workers have formally joined their metal, electronic and steel industry counterparts in the new industry wide pension scheme company, Metall-Rente, which will start operating next year.....
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Aberdeen wins Windsor Life property mandates
UK – Aberdeen Property Asset Managers (APAM) has won the mandate to run the £180m (€287.5m) property investment portfolios of Windsor Life Assurance Company (WLAC)....
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Dunnett Shaw & Partners opens second UK office
UK - Pensions and IT consultancy, Dunnett Shaw & Partners (DSP), has opened their second UK office in Sheffield....
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Hermes poaches F&C's Mustoe for CIO role
UK – Pensions management company, Hermes, has appointed Nick Mustoe as chief investment officer (CIO) with effect from January 1, 2002.....
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Rothschild wins out in £80m CWFS mandate
UK – Rothschild Asset Management (Rothschild) has beaten rival management groups, Hermes, Gerrard and Tilney, to win the mandate to run the £80m (€127.5m) investment portfolio of the Communication Workers Friendly Society (CWFS)....
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AXA IM serves up new institutional pooled funds
UK - AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has launched a new institutional range of pooled pension funds....
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Kvalheim to head Barclays' investment banking arm
UK - Grant Kvalheim, global head of credit products at Barclays Capital, is to take responsibility for the management of the firm’s Investment Banking Division, which manages Barclays Capital’s relationships with corporate and financial institution clients....
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Petroleum fund issues huge $5-8bn fixed income RFP
NORWAY – The NOK547bn (e68bn) Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund has issued one of the world’s largest ever fixed-income RFPs for an expected 15 managers with the size of the mandates varying from $100m to $1bn....
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Nine managers win Petroleum fund equity mandates
NORWAY – The NOK547bn (e68bn) Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund (Petroleumsfondet) has appointed a raft of nine new managers to small and mid cap and sector driven equity mandates....
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AP7 starts phase two of alternatives RFP
SWEDEN - The e2.3bn AP7 fund has received proposals from 135 managers for tenders worth around e180m in hedge fund and private equity assets and will today (December 4) begin sending out the second phase questionnaire for the RFP process to all the managers....
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Capital wins Russell UK equity brief
UK – Capital International has won a mandate to run a UK equity portfolio for the Frank Russell Company within its manager of managers investment structure.
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Mercer opens second Austrian consulting office
AUSTRIA – Mercer HR Consulting, the Vienna based subsidiary of international consultancy group William M Mercer, has opened an office in Innsbruck in conjunction with its sister company Marsh Austria....
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Permal launches multi-manager hedge fund
NETHERLANDS/UK - London based Permal Investment Management (PIM), part of French group Worms & Cie, has launched the Permal Long Short Global Equity Holdings fund, a Dutch registered multi-manager fund....
