All IPE articles in July 2001 (Online) – Page 6
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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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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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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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£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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£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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
