Investor Strategy – Page 267
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FOX may run free this summer
FINLAND – The Finnish Traded Stock Index (FOX) is to tighten its stock weighting rules and is also likely to adopt free float as its basis for overall calculation by August 1, 2001.
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Wassum branches out into Finnish market
FINLAND – Swedish investment consultancy Wassum is to open an office in Helsinki in June...
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Irish Pensions Board "customers" happy
IRELAND – Survey finds most of public never heard of board
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Swedish kommun takes on foreign equity managers
Sweden - The SEK100m Swedish kommun of Partille has selected Carlson Investment Management and Länsförsäkringar Wasa to Swedish balanced mandates of SEK40m each and pulled in overseas managers Fidelity and Indocam to manage SEK10m apiece in global equity funds.
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Ireland puts away IR£6bn for the future
IRELAND - The green light has been given to Ireland's National Pension Reserve Fund, which should see upwards of IR£6bn pumped into its coffers by the year end. RFPs for external mandates could be requested as early as February.....
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German employees to lead the way
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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Interest wanes in PPM funds
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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Myners spells out end of MFR
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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FCPE shift
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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Dutch funds build for the future
NETHERLANDS - Six Dutch pension funds will move into the same building next year, in a move which could herald future investment collaboration.
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Russell switch
UK - Frank Russell has appointed AXA Rosenberg Investment Management to manage a Europe ex-UK Broad Market portfolio, previously run by Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM).
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Bacon and Callan reach parting of ways
UK - consulting actuary firm Bacon & Woodrow and US consultants Callan Associates are set to unravel their global consultancy relationship.
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Something for everyone
EU - It was expected to be the final piece of the European financial services jigsaw. In time-honoured European tradition, though, it came as something of a shape-shifter … a little bit of everything for everybody.
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Irish funds focus on managers' process
IRELAND - Irish plan sponsors are becoming more aware of the investment strategies of their funds.
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SSgA and MSCI team up on ETFs
EUROPE - The opportunities that exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can bring to European investors have driven Street Global Advisors (SSgA) and MSCI to sign an agreement to launch a range of MSCI-based ETFs.
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PPM pulls in 70% of Swedes
SWEDEN - Around 70% of Swedes in the north of the country have chosen to actively invest their assets in the second round of selection under the PPM (Premium Pensions Authority) national pension scheme.
