All IPE articles in July 2001 (Online) – Page 3
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First Quadrant promotes Goodsall to chairman slot
UK – US quant house, First Quadrant, has appointed Bill Goodsall as chairman and promoted Robert Brown to the position of managing director in its London office....
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Soc Gen completes buy-out of US firm TCW
FRANCE/US – Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM) has completed its 51% purchase of Los Angeles based fund managers, TCW, by promoting Philippe Citerne, chief executive officer (CEO), and Philippe Collas, chairman and CEO of SGAM, to the board of directors of TCW....
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Dresdner poaches ING executives in Dutch push
NETHERLANDS – Dresdner RCM Global Investors has opened a new Amsterdam office and poached two senior sales executives, Richard Mouw and Michel Ho, from ING Asset Management to market the group’s institutional pension fund products to the Dutch market....
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EFRP slams life-insurers inclusion in Directive
EUROPE – The European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) has come out strongly against proposals by the European Parliament (EP) to create a level playing field for supplementary pension scheme providers, claiming that the Karas report gives life insurers ‘special advantages’ when operating in the occupational pensions’ market....
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EFRP queries 'high price' of Parliament directive
EUROPE - The compromise of the Karas report to secure a majority in the European Parliament has come at a high price, according to Kees van Rees, chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP)....
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Norwegian fund appoints Den Norske and Pareto
NORWAY – The NKr 800m (€101m) Larvik Primary Fund, the fund established to support the city of Larvik’s local economy has awarded two active segregated balanced mandates to Den Norske Bank Asset Management (DNB) and Pareto Asset Management....
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Gartmore gets SICAV ok in Belgium and Germany
EUROPE – UK investment manager Gartmore has received authorisation for the public distribution of its SICAV range of funds in Belgium and Germany....
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US report issued on NAV/fair value practices
US – Capital Market Risk Advisors (CMRA), the New York based risk management specialist advisory firm, has published the results of its recent Net Asset Value (NAV) / Fair Value practices survey in the US.
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Survey reveals European traits on investment
LUXEMBOURG – A survey carried out by Crédit Agricole Indosuez Luxembourg looking at the values and beliefs of European investors, and whether culture influences financial decision making, reveals that that 38% of Europeans believe stocks are the best long term investment, with 43% of Germans saying that investing is fun. ...
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Yates takes Phillips & Drew top slot in September
UK – Paul Yates is take over from Robin Hindle Fisher as chief executive of UBS owned UK fund manager Phillips & Drew from September....
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Yorkshire fund awards £15m venture brief
UK – Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity (AMJPE) has won the mandate to manage and advise a new segregated £15m (€25m) private equity fund, Yorkshire Investors III, to be launched by the £5bn West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF)....
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Oppenheimer buys hedge fund outfit Tremont
US – Tremont Advisers, the alternative investment and hedge fund advisory firm has been bought out by Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp, the parent company of OppenheimerFunds, which currently has $120bn (€140bn) in assets under management.....
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SEI starts Italian multi-manager joint venture
ITALY – SEI Investments has set up a joint venture relationship with Italy’s Bipiemme Gestioni, the asset management arm of Banco Popolare di Milano (BPM) to launch a manager-of-managers programme for bank branches and other distribution channels....
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General Motors appoints Man as hedge fund advisor
UK – Glenwood, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Man Group, the international hedge fund and futures broker, has been appointed as strategic hedge fund consultant to General Motors Investment Management Company (GMIMCo).....
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UK nurses pension fund bought by life insurer
UK – Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society (LVFS) is to acquire the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses (RNPFN) in a deal worth approximately £248m (€409m).....
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Deutsche boosts Dutch institutional sales team
NETHERLANDS – Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has appointed Owen Thiers as vice president, institutional sales, as part of an expansion of its Dutch institutional sales capabilities....
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ABP announces SRI investment experiment
NETHERLANDS – The e150bn Dutch superfund ABP has announced its first ‘experiment’ in socially responsible investing (SRI) with the creation of two internally managed SRI portfolios based on research provided by US group Innovest Strategic Value Advisors....
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EU ministers to produce joint pension report
EUROPE – European Union Member States’ social and financial ministers are to work together to produce a report on the overall state of EU pension systems by the end of the year, following informal discussions last weekend by European social ministers marking the Belgian takeover of the European presidency....
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Multi-manager Attica drops Newton for SGAM
UK – Attica Asset Management has dropped Newton in favour of Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM) to manage a portfolio for its multi-manager UK equity fund....
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Hutton resigns from Morgan Grenfell Private Equity
UK – Deutsche Bank has brought in Sir Robert Smith as chief executive officer (CEO) at the group’s venture arm Morgan Grenfell Private Equity (MGPE) to replace former CEO Graham Hutton, who is leaving the firm following a disagreement over plans to sell the business to its management....
