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UK is the most 'dramatic' major pensions market
UK - The pace of change in the UK pensions market over the last 30 years has been more dramatic than in any other major institutional market, claims Greenwich Associates, the Greenwich, Connecticut based research and consulting firm....
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SFIM/Bank Corluy alliance gets first mandate win
BELGIUM – The strategic alliance created by London-based Singer & Friedlander Investment Management (SFIM) and Antwerp-based private bank, Bank Corluy Effectenbankiers (Corluy), has landed its first mandate, a €27m balanced equity and fixed income portfolio, from the Province of East Flanders pension fund in Belgium....
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One in three UK funds set to up bond exposure
UK – More than a third of the UK’s major companies are considering increasing their pension funds exposure to fixed income following the introduction of the FRS17 accounting standard last year, according to the initial results of a survey by Gartmore Investment Management....
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USF £600m fund was run by 27 year old, court told
UK – Alistair Lennard, one of the fund managers at the centre of the Merrill Lynch/Unilever high court case, was just 27 years old with three years experience as a fund manager and a “hunger for success”, when he took on responsibility for around £600m in UK equities for the ...
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BGI builds on B&CE mandate with £150m top-up
UK – Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has been selected to run an additional £150m (€243.5m) overseas equities and bonds mandate for the £650m defined benefit (DB) pension plan for the Building & Civil Engineering Benefits Scheme (B&CE)....
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Swedish pension funds pool SKr200m mandate
SWEDEN – Stockholm based Carlson Investment Management has won a mandate to run an SKr 200m (€21m) Swedish equities portfolio for the so called G7-Group, a collaboration of seven southern Swedish municipality pension funds....
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Rothschild names new institutional client manager
UK – Rothschild Asset Management has appointed Marion Colverd as manager of its institutional client service team in London.
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AXA Rosenberg wins £44m from Ciba scheme
UK – London based quantitative asset manager, Axa Rosenberg, has won a £44m (€71m) pan-European equity mandate from the £449m pension scheme of Ciba Specialty Chemicals UK….
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Dresdner races home with £64m Pirelli fund brief
UK – Dresdner RCM Global Investors has been selected to run a £64m (€103m) global equity mandate by the London based Pirelli Common Investment Fund, the Italian tyre and cable company’s UK pensions’ arm....
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Russell poaches Towers consultants for London team
UK – Frank Russell Company (Russell) has poached two new consultants from rivals Towers Perrin for its institutional investment services team in London....
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BBSP moves into UK fund management market
FRANCE/UK – Paris based market forecasting specialist company, BBSP, has announced its intention to move into the UK’s fund management market....
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Dellsperger becomes CSAM head of global equities
UK/GLOBAL – Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) UK has appointed Peter Dellsperger as head of global equities products in London, but with supervision and responsibility for teams in London, New York, Tokyo and Zurich....
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Pension funds should go for gold, says WGC
UK – Managers of pension funds and other institutional funds in the UK should not ignore gold when looking at alternative asset classes, according to Dr Robert Weinberg, head of institutional investment at the World Gold Council….
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JP Morgan Fleming launches global cash portal
GLOBAL – J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management (JPMF), has launched the Global Cash Portal (GCP), an internet-based platform enabling JPMF’s institutional treasury clients to access cash management products worldwide....
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Hewitt becomes global equity director at FIS
UK – Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS) has appointed Peter Hewitt as director of global equities in its fund management team in London....
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e150m Italian electric fund appoints five managers
ITALY – Fopen, the e150m pension fund for employees of the Italian electricity utility, Enel, has appointed five new investment managers to the fund – two overseas and three domestic players....
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US DB plans 'fine-tuning' portfolios, says Mercer
US - Defined benefit plan sponsors are fine-tuning their investment portfolios rather than making any dramatic changes, according to a survey by consultant William. M. Mercer....
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Rothschild names new fixed income head
UK - Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) has appointed Abdallah Nauphal as the new head of its fixed income & currency group....
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Northern Trust in €125m Italian multi-manager win
ITALY – Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has won a mandate to run four €125m seeded mutual funds for Italian banking group, Mediolanum.
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Boadicea heralds all girl hedge fund management
UK – Europe’s first and only all female hedge fund management company, Deco Capital, has been launched, kicking off operations with the Boadicea fund...
