Markets – Page 294
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Maguire to head SWIP global marketing push
** Maguire to head SWIP global marketing ** Fiach Maguire joins Scottish Widows Investment Partnership as director of global marketing....and all the rest of this weeks major people moves....
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European equities could be best bet
EUROPE – At a time of slowing economic growth in the US, Europe could prove to be a haven for investors, says Mark Pignatelli, head of European equities at Schroders...
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STOXX beefs up regional sales teams
STOXX has made a raft of appointments to its regional marketing and sales teams with Kevin Pilarski appointed regional director for the Americas and Jon Winslade regional director for the Netherlands and the UK.... and all the rest of the week's major people moves......
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Schroders gets Korean green light
SOUTH KOREA – UK fund manager Schroders has become the first foreign asset management company to be given a preliminary fund management licence in the Republic of Korea...
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Antonsson takes top spot at Telia fund
Peter Antonsson has been appointed to head the Farsta-based Telia pensionsstiftelse (pension fund) for the Swedish telecommunications company....and the rest of the weeks prominent people moves.....
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UK fund allocates £112m into multinational equity
UK - The £330m (e527m) Southern Water Pension Schemes has appointed Dresdner to invest a third of its assets in multinational equities...
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J Walter Thompson Trustees drops Schroders
UK – J Walter Thompson Trustees has split its £50m pension fund into three separate specialist portfolios - following the closure of the fund, dropping Schroder Investment Management in the process...
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FTSE becomes international benchmark for CalPers
FTSE has become the sole index provider for $160bn US superfund CalPers’ $36bn in international equities....
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F&C rolls out new SICAV range
UK – Foreign & Colonial (F&C) has launched a number of Luxembourg-based equity and bond SICAVs aimed at both the institutional and retail markets...
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Julius Baer to open Stockholm office
SWEDEN – Julius Baer Group is to open its first office in the Nordic countries in the middle of the year...
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Spain's third pillar funds shaky for 2000
SPAIN - individual pension plans slumped to negative performance figures for 2000, according to Inverco – the Spanish pension funds association...
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AP2 appoints raft of managers to SEK130bn fund
SWEDEN - The SEK130bn (e14.6bn) Gothenburg based AP fonden 2 has appointed six new asset managers and a global custodian...
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Singer & Friedlander scoops European equity briefs
UK – Singer & Friedlander Investment Management (SFIM) has picked up continental European large cap equity mandates worth around £45m (e71m)...
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Finnish FSA reappoints Jännäri for six years
Kaarlo Jännäri has been reappointed for a further six years as head of the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (RATA).....Read on for this weeks major people moves in the European pensions and investment industry...
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Nederlof to lead Deutsche global pensions team
Maarten Nederlof has joined Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) as managing director and global head of pension strategies...
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FIS comes clean with new SRI fund
UK - Friends Ivory & Sime has teamed up with Christian Aid, Oxfam and the Pensions Trust in the development of a new SRI fund...
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Gardener goes global at Mercer
Gardener promotion.. plus this weeks round-up of all the major industry personnel moves...
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OM adjusts industrial indices
SWEDEN – The OM Stockholm Exchange has changed its industry classification in a bid to iron out discrepancies due to the weighting of telephone giant Ericsson...
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Petroleum fund puts US$3.5bn up for grabs
NORWAY - Norway’s government petroleum fund is seeking proposals from managers for specialist mandates, that might be worth up to US$3.5m in total
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EDF charges up PIMCO and AGF
Paris based Eléctricité de France (EDF) – the French electricity provider - has selected Pimco Global Advisers and AGF Asset Management – both under the new Allianz PIMCO Asset Management grouping - to jointly run a significant global bond mandate worth tens of millions of euros.
