Markets – Page 290
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Altink to head Mellon's European corporate affairs
UK/EUROPE – Jan Altink has been appointed director of corporate affairs for Europe by Pittsburgh based Mellon Financial Corporation.
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Russell wins three Dutch pension fund mandates
NETHERLANDS – Multi-manager investment firm, the Frank Russell Company, has picked up three new mandates from Dutch pension funds....
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PIMCO pulls in $165m in first Danish mandates
DENMARK - US fixed income specialist PIMCO Global Advisors has scooped its first mandates in the Danish market, picking up three high yield briefs from separate pension funds worth a total of $165m (e197m)....
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Mantel to lead Baring UK/Europe investment team
UK/EUROPE – Jan Mantel joins Baring Asset Management (BAM) next week as director and head of its UK and Europe investment team....
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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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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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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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Swedish manager poaches FIS chief for US push
Stockholm-based asset manager Länsförsäkringar Kapitalförvaltning is beefing up its US operations by recruiting J Robert Bloom as head of its New York office.... And all the week's major people moves...
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SEB selects Schroders for SEK12bn advisory brief
SWEDEN/UK – Stockholm based financial services group Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has appointed London based asset manager Schroders to advise it on the management of its SEK12bn (e1.3bn) Asian and emerging market equity assets....
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New Proximus fund opts for Fortis and ABN-AMRO
BELGIUM - Proximus, the mobile phone subsidiary of Belgacom – the Belgian telecommunications group, has appointed investment managers Fortis and ABN-AMRO for passive and active equity briefs respectively, following the transfer of assets into its fledgling pension fund....
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Sweden's AP2 and AP3 funds make top level hires
SWEDEN – The government pension buffer funds AP2 and AP3 have made a number of top level appointments to their in-house investment teams....
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Huerta to lead Spanish institutional sales at R&SA
Victoria Huerta has been appointed as sales director of retail and institutional funds at the Madrid office of Royal & Sun Alliance Investments Luxembourg.... And all the week's major people moves....
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Euro is a threat to UK small caps, says industry
UK/EUROPE – The majority of UK fund managers, broker analysts, and smaller companies believe that small cap UK companies will not benefit from joining the European Monetary Union (EMU), according to a Reuters survey, conducted by London-based Tempest Consultants.
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Spain's MEFF places futures & options on S&P 350
SPAIN/US – The Madrid based futures and options bourse Mercado Oficial de Futuros y Opciones Financieros (MEFF) will tomorrow (June 21) launch stock index futures and options contracts on the S&P Europe 350 index...
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Morley lands £1bn Marconi fund assets
UK – Communications group Marconi has appointed Morley Fund Management to run a £1bn (e1.63bn) bond portfolio on behalf of its UK pension plan.
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Washington launches new European hedge fund
EUROPE – Adrian Farthing has been appointed by the Washington Financial Group to manage its new European hedge fund targeted at European, UK and US offshore institutional investors and funds of funds....
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Italy's Fondo Famiglia seeks pan-European partners
ITALY – Fondo Pensione Complementare per la Famiglia (Fondo Famiglia), the potentially fifteen million strong pension fund for Italian housewives and part-time workers, is sounding out partnerships with similar European family organisations that could create a giant pan-European retirement scheme for the social sector....
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Northern scoops e1bn master custody brief
UK – The £640m (e1bn) Falkirk Council pension fund in Scotland has appointed Northern Trust as its master custodian, in a move which follows the recent appointment of Capital International to an approximately £128m UK/European equities brief....
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BMW enters investment fund field with Russell
GERMANY – BMW Bank, the financial services arm of German car manufacturer BMW, has entered investment fund business with a range of international multi-manager funds, offered through Frank Russell Company, starting on Jul 30.
