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Swiss funds beat benchmarks for 2000
SWITZERLAND - Swiss pension funds in the ASIP/Watson Wyatt performance universe managed to outperform two of their three performance benchmarks in 2000….
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Zurich Scudder appoints new European strategy head
Colin Robertson has been appointed as European head of global strategy at Zurich Scudder Investments...
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French companies shift to long-term savings plans
FRANCE – Almost a third of French employers are currently considering the adoption of long-term employee savings plans under new regulation passed in February...
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Chambers named global CIO of Gartmore/Villanova
UK/US – Peter Chambers, chief investment officer (CIO) at Gartmore, has been appointed global CIO of the newly combined investment division of London based Gartmore and the US manager Villanova Capital....
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One in six UK firms have no plan for stakeholder
UK – One in six British small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) say they are unsure or have no intention of offering their staff access to a stakeholder pension scheme, despite the possibility of being fined up to £50,000 (e80,000)...
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VB predicts industry scheme flight to passive
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds may be forced to adopt increasingly passive investment strategies or conversely take undue investment risks if the five-year period of performance testing for the Z-score is not extended....
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SEI gets £50m Man B&W Diesel injection
UK – Manager of managers firm SEI Investments has picked up its third UK mandate win with an appointment from the pension fund of MAN B&W Diesel to manage a potentially £50m (e81m) plus multi-manager portfolio....
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Allianz/Dresdner could create e1trn asset manager
GERMANY - The proposed merger between Allianz, Germany’s largest insurance company and Dresdner Bank, could create an investment management powerhouse with almost e1trn in assets under management, according to sources close to the deal....
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JP Morgan recruits Mercer institutional specialist
UK – JP Morgan Investor Services has appointed former Mercer institutional specialist, Richard Dinham, as an investment consultant, in a bid to boost the group’s Europe, Middle East and Africa performance, analytics and consulting division...
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German private equity market's e600bn boost
GERMANY - The German private equity market will receive an injection of some e600bn from next January on the back of tax reforms that will abolish capital gains tax (CGT), according to a new report by Commerzbank Securities...
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Guernsey funds business grows despite threats
GUERNSEY – Guernsey fund managers have recorded relatively healthy growth in hedge fund and fund of funds business for 2000, despite threats to the industry posed by outside bodies such as the OECD and the general increase in competition from other offshore jurisdictions...
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AEU engages with FIS for £60m mandate
UK – AEU, one of the two pension schemes of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU), one of the largest UK trade unions, has appointed Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS) to a £60m (e96m) multi-asset mandate for its super-annuation and assurance scheme...
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PPM system to receive half a million new entrants
SWEDEN – Almost half a million new entrants will join the SEK18-20bn (e2-2.2bn) state premium pension system (PPM) at the end of May, more than doubling the earlier estimate of 200,000 new members....
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Deutsche appoints D'Amore to drive Italian sales
ITALY – Gennaro D’Amore has joined Deutsche Asset Management’s Rome office as vice president of institutional sales in the bank’s effort to expand business in the country...
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80% of French and Germans say pensions are at risk
EUROPE – More than 80% of French and Germans think that in 10-15 years their domestic pensions system will not be able to pay full benefits in the light of future demographic imbalances, according to a study by three leading European academics…
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SEI has right chemistry for £18m Meconic scheme
UK – Manager of managers firm SEI Investments has been awarded the mandate to run the £18m (e29m) assets of the pension fund of Meconic – a specialist manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients and chemicals...
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Karas pledges support for prudential rules
EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE SPECIAL - Othmar Karas presents his findings to the European Monetary Affairs Committee today (March 21) - arguing that the 'prudent person' investment rule should hold sway, with non-compliant member states given ten years to come into line...
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ABP/State Street venture makes first investment
EUROPE/US – State Street Global Alliance, the jointly owned subsidiary of the e150bn Dutch civil service pension fund ABP and State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), has bought a major interest in Washington based Residential Capital Management...
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Compass points to Russell for £500m brief
UK – The trustees of the newly created £500m (e794m) Compass Pension Scheme for catering group Compass, have appointed multi-manager Frank Russell Company as the sole investment manager to the scheme’s assets....
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One in ten small cap firms meet investor hopes
UK – Only one in ten UK smaller quoted companies meet the minimum market capitalisation desired by institutional investors, according to a study by the London based consultancy KPMG Corporate Finance.
