Markets – Page 288
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AXA pulls in former UBS chief to head up equities
UK/Global - AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has lured Richard Semark from UBS Asset Management to become its London-based global head of equity trading, with effect from November 1....
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POSIT crosses to Sweden and Finland
EUROPE - ITG Europe, the technology-based equity trading services group, is extending the reach of its POSIT intraday crossing system to cover equities from Sweden and Finland....
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Swiss banker becomes AIMR chairman
SWITZERLAND/US - Philippe Sarasin, managing partner with international investment bank Lombard Odier & Cie in Geneva, Switzerland, has been elected chair of the board of governors of the 50,000-member Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR).....
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CSAM appoints European equity research head
Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has appointed Ella Brown to the position of London head of European equity research....
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Friends First Asset Management fuses with F&C
IRELAND – European asset management group F&C is to integrate the money management business of Irish financial group Friends First into its own operations, in a further bid to consolidate the investment management strands of its insurance firm parent Eureko, which bought F&C in May this year.....
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ABP appoints Achmea director as CIO for equities
NETHERLANDS - Jan Straatman, the former director of asset management (CIO) at Achmea Global Investors has been appointed as chief investment officer for equities with ABP Investments in Amsterdam, the investment arm of the e150bn Dutch pension fund....
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UCW Pensions selects Rothschild for fund assets
UK – The £32m (e52m) UCW Pensions 2001 scheme, which provides pension benefits to sections of the employees and former employees of the Communication Workers Union, has selected Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) to manage a multi-asset mandate for its entire assets....
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Northern Trust wins European equity mandate duo
EUROPE - Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has picked up two new globally sourced European equity mandates with appointments to a US$155m portfolio from the Hospital Authority Provident Fund Scheme in Hong Kong (HAPFS) and an undisclosed brief from the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) in Australia....
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ABP appoints US quant manager to large cap brief
NETHERLANDS – The e150bn Heerlen based ABP pension fund has appointed US equity quant manager Advanced Investment Technologies (AIT) to manage a large cap core equities portfolio....
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Norwegian e65bn fund posts positive Q2 figures
NORWAY - The NOK522bn (e65bn) Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund returned 1.1% for the second quarter of this year with the upswing in equity markets contributing positively, despite a negative return on fixed income investments....
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Morley picks up £200m mixed bonds brief
UK - The £1.2bn (e1.9bn) pension fund of T&N, the UK subsidiary of the Federal-Mogul Corporation, has selected Morley Fund Management to manage a £200m bond mandate...
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Pilling to head up Morley pooled funds team
UK – Lyndsey Pilling has joined Morley Pooled Pensions as manager of the firm’s pooled funds team....
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Irish e6bn RFP receives 600 replies from managers
IRELAND – The Irish National Treasury Management Agency, the investment management supervisory body for the country’s e7bn National Pensions Reserve Fund, says it has received around 600 expressions of interest for the huge raft of mandates totalling e6bn in assets that it put out to tender last month.....
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Dresdner poaches new global equities head
UK – Dresdner RCM Global Investors has lured Lucy Watson away from Baring Asset Management to become director and head of global equities in London....
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Russell names new client services director
UK – Frank Russell in London has appointed Philippa Drury as director of client services for its institutional investment services team.
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Northern Trust in German joint venture push
GERMANY – Northern Trust Global Investments Europe (NTGI) and Frankfurt based Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), have set up a joint venture company Helaba NorthernTrust, to offer institutional investment management services to the German market....
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Fund managers bullish on global economic outlook
EUROPE/GLOBAL – Fund managers are becoming increasingly bullish about the prospects for the global economy, but would like to see an easing of European monetary policy, according to the latest Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey, released today (Aug 14)....
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Montgomery Oppenheimer is Irish top performer
IRELAND – Irish employee benefits and investments firm, Coyle Hamilton, has published the results of its group pension managed funds survey for the second quarter of 2001 with Montgomery Oppenheimer taking top slot on a five-year basis - returning an annualised 20.6%....
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ATS23bn Austrian fund selects seven new managers
AUSTRIA – The Vienna based ATS23bn (e1.7bn) Vereinigte Pensionskasse has appointed a new roster of seven investment managers, including five international firms, to manage ATS8bn in assets under a new multi-manager, multi-style approach....
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DeAM reshuffle precedes Europe high yield launch
UK/US – Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has reshuffled a number of key staff members in its bond teams between the US and London as part of a strategy to strengthen its fixed income capabilities....
