All IPE articles in June 2002 (Online) – Page 5

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    SWIP appoints de Bruijn from Shell pension fund

    2002-06-28T02:25:00Z

    UK – Edinburgh-based asset management group, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), has appointed Jan de Bruijn as a senior fund manager to its Asia and merging markets team. De Bruijn will join SWIP in August.

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    UK council issues e1.1bn RFP in specialist switch

    2002-06-28T02:47:00Z

    UK – The £775m (€1,119m) Worcestershire County Council pension fund is to issue a RFP next week to find managers for six new portfolios as it moves from balanced to specialist management.

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    PIMCO poaches BGI's Pardi as southern Europe head

    2002-06-28T02:48:00Z

    UK/EUROPE- Specialist fixed income manager PIMCO has appointed PeterPaul Pardi as head of business development for southern Europe. Pardi was most recently head of southern European institutional business at Barclays Global Investors. Pardi, who joined this week and is based in London, reports to Joe McDevitt, head of PIMCO in ...

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    Jeffreys retires as S&P's head of European indices

    2002-06-28T03:12:00Z

    UK/EUROPE– Peter Jeffreys is to retire from his position as managing director of Standard & Poor’s Index Services (Europe) at the end of this month. His replacement is expected to be announced shortly.

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    Priamo looks for administration provider

    2002-06-28T03:17:00Z

    ITALY– Priamo, the €30m industry wide pension fund for public transport workers in Italy, is looking for an administration and accounting services provider ahead of issuing a full RFP for investment managers for its assets.

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    With-profits AVCs outperform unit-linked funds

    2002-06-28T04:04:00Z

    UK– With-profits AVCs (additional voluntary contributions) are performing considerably better than managed unit-linked funds, with all but one with-profits AVC funds over three, five and ten year periods reporting higher returns, according to research published by Watson Wyatt.