Investor Strategy – Page 259
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Dutch fund head to chair Swiss private equity firm
NETHERLANDS/SWITZERLAND – Marinus Keijzer, chief investment officer of the Zeist based Emeritaatsfonds GKN pension fund and for 10 years a well known figure at Dutch superfund PGGM, is one of five new proposed board members of Swiss private equity firm 5e Holding....
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Property grows as volatility rocks equity marts
GLOBAL- Property continues to grow as an asset class as volatility continues to impact adversely on equity markets and low interest rates make real estate more attractive, according to new research by DTZ.....
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Irish e6bn RFP receives 600 replies from managers
IRELAND – The Irish National Treasury Management Agency, the investment management supervisory body for the country’s e7bn National Pensions Reserve Fund, says it has received around 600 expressions of interest for the huge raft of mandates totalling e6bn in assets that it put out to tender last month.....
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Northern Trust in German joint venture push
GERMANY – Northern Trust Global Investments Europe (NTGI) and Frankfurt based Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), have set up a joint venture company Helaba NorthernTrust, to offer institutional investment management services to the German market....
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UK based fund manager wins $200m Ohio PERS brief
UK/US – The UK fund management arm of Australia’s Colonial First State Investments has been selected by the tenth largest public pension fund in the US, the $57bn (e63bn) Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (Ohio PERS), to manage a new $200m global emerging markets portfolio.....
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Eurozone slowdown worsening, says Swiss Life
EUROZONE – The economic slowdown across euroland is worsening, according to Swiss Life Asset Management’s (UK) latest global economic summary.....
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Montgomery Oppenheimer is Irish top performer
IRELAND – Irish employee benefits and investments firm, Coyle Hamilton, has published the results of its group pension managed funds survey for the second quarter of 2001 with Montgomery Oppenheimer taking top slot on a five-year basis - returning an annualised 20.6%....
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Gissings lands UK advisory mandates
UK – Employee benefit and pensions advisory firm, Gissings, has landed two new UK pensions advisory contracts....
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PGGM fires up debate on Dutch Z-score system
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the Zeist based NLG110bn (e50bn) Dutch superfund has publicly criticised aspects of the country’s Z-score system that tests the performance of industry-wide pension schemes, claiming that at worst it could lead to the disappearance of industry plans in Holland within thirty years.....
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European hedge fund investment to rise by 500%
EUROPE/HEDGE FUNDS - European investment in hedge funds is expected to grow by around 500% in the coming years, with pension funds and insurance companies representing over three quarters of the new users of the asset class, according to research published today (August 9) by asset management research firm ...
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Hermes lands £220m passive brief from Croydon
UK – The £400m (e645m) London Borough of Croydon pension fund has chosen Hermes Investment Management to run a £220 million FTSE 100 indexed portfolio following a head to head with two other investment management firms....
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Robeco advises institutions to switch bond indices
NETHERLANDS – Dutch institutional investment manager Robeco has advised its institutional clients holding euro denominated fixed-interest investments to replace the current government loans index with an index consisting of both government loans and credits.....
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Royal London gets Carter as CIO
UK – Independent investment management company, Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) has a new chief investment officer, Andrew Carter.
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New CIO at Phillips & Drew
**New CIO at Phillips & Drew** UK – Matthew Stemp is new chief investment officer at Phillips & Drew (P&D), replacing Robin Apps who has left the company.
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PWC acquires 30% stake in Callund Consulting
UK – UK based specialist government consultancy firm, Callund Consulting (CC), has formed a “strategic alliance” with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to offer international pension reforms advice.
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Andrew Ross is new chief executive at Cazenove
**New Chief Executive at Cazenove** UK – Andrew Ross has been named as new chief executive of London based Cazenove Fund Management. Ross was previously chief executive at HSBC Asset Management (Europe).
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Mercer wins brief for Boxclever plan
UK – Major employee benefits consultancy firm, William M. Mercer, has been chosen to act as consultant for the pension fund of Boxclever, the newly formed television and video rental joint venture company...
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Volkswagen works with State Street on DC plan
GERMANY – US global custodian State Street Bank, is partnering giant motor group Volkswagen in developing and implementing a new company-wide defined contribution (DC) pension scheme.
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Schroders to manage Bradford & Bingley pension
UK – Schroder Pensions, part of the €211bn Schroder asset management group, is to manage major UK building society, Bradford & Bingley’s new group pension plan.
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CSAM announces fixed income fund for Hungary
UK – Crédit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) is to launch a fixed income mutual fund in Hungary.
