All IPE articles in July 2001 (Online)
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UK lobby network launches overseas pension group
UK – International Financial Services London (IFSL), the UK cross-sector organisation for the promotion of UK financial services overseas, has set up a pension group consisting of 15 of its members with an interest in the international pensions market, in a bid to co-ordinate the promotion of UK expertise in ...
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BGI launches derivatives style institutional fund
UK – Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is offering what it terms “a new approach” to asset allocation for institutional investors through a new investment vehicle, the Ascent Asset Allocation (AAA) fund....
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Mercer to advise £60m Amey schemes
UK – Amey, the business support and outsourcing services group, has appointed consultant William M. Mercer as its actuarial, investment and communications consultant for its two group pension schemes....
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Fidelity in Europe/UK personnel reshuffle
UK/EUROPE – Fidelity has appointed Anna Roads to the new position of director of research and product development, pan-Europe....
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Martelli joins SSGA's Italian institutional team
UK/ITALY – Margherita Martelli has joined the London based Italian institutional sales team of State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)....
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Morley comes clean with SRI pooled fund range
UK – Morley Fund Management has launched a range of SRI pooled pension funds available to UK pension schemes....
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Cordius opens subscriptions for new fund of funds
BELGIUM – Cordius Asset Management has opened the subscription period for a new fund of funds that invests in the shares of other investment funds themselves investing in European equities....
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Deutsche appoints EMEA fund management head
UK - Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has announced the appointments of Brian Collings as head of emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Andrew Ness as a fund manager for the same regions, in a bid to strengthen its global emerging markets investment capability....
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ABN AMRO launches model fund range
NETHERLANDS – ABN AMRO Asset Management has launched six new Model funds to be listed on the Luxembourg and Amsterdam stock exchanges....
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Metzler receives 'aa' rating from Fitch AMR
FRANCE – Fitch AMR, the Paris based ratings company, has awarded a ‘aa’ rating to Frankfurt based Metzler Asset Management, which has some €9.5bn in assets under management....
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Brown Brothers Harriman lands e1.65bn SEI fund
IRELAND – Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has been appointed global subcustodian for the SEI Global Master Fund, with assets over $1.4bn (€1.65bn) - amassed mainly in South Africa and the UK, its first areas of distribution....
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£26bn UK coal funds re-appoint JP Morgan
UK – The trustee board of the £26bn British Coal Pension Schemes has re-appointed JP Morgan Investor Services as global custodian....
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£1.9bn Edinburgh fund drops DeAM for Blackrock
UK – The £1.9bn (e3.4bn) City of Edinburgh Council Lothian Pension Fund has pulled an approximately £150m European equities brief from Deutsche Asset Management and split the balance between Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) and Edinburgh based Blackrock....
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Gartmore adds to hedge fund range
UK - Gartmore Investment Management has launched the AlphaGen Pictor fund, the fourth equity hedge fund in the AlphaGen series, a non-directional long / short Pacific and global emerging markets fund....
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Colin Harris steps down as Newton chief executive
UK – Colin Harris, chief executive at Newton and one if its founders, has decided to step down, following the full acquisition of the firm by Mellon....
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Nomura electrified by £55m Pacific basin brief
UK – Nomura Asset Management UK has been appointed to manage a £55m (€91.3m) Pacific basin mandate by London Electricity group pension fund, part of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme....
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Hermes draws the line on company share options
UK – Pension fund manager Hermes Investment Management has drawn a clear line on the debate over executive share option remuneration, by announcing that it will not support resolutions put to shareholders for executive share options re-pricing in any of its 3000 worldwide public company investments....
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State Street buys portfolio accounting firm
US – State Street has announced that it has closed the acquisition of DST Systems’ portfolio accounting service business, Portfolio Accounting System (PAS), which is used by six of the top 20 mutual fund complexes in the US. ...
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UK lawyer claims annuities for women are unjust
UK – Robert Morfee, a partner at law firm Clarke Willmott & Clarke, has launched a campaign against UK law that obliges women to buy annuities, suggesting that it is discriminatory and could be in breach of European and human rights legislation....
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Deutsche says German reforms may buck EU trend
GERMANY - The recent pension fund reform legislation in Germany will run counter to the efforts of the European Union (EU) to create a single pension funds market, according to a study by Deutsche Bank Research in Frankfurt....
