All IPE articles in November 2001 (Online)
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Blackstone lures Meaden for European hedge start
Nicola Meaden, chairman and CEO of hedge fund advisory group Tremont TASS (Europe) has quit the firm to join US outfit Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), which establishes its first physical presence in Europe with the appointment.....
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Parliament to take first step on pension tax issue
EUROPE - The European Parliament committee on economic and monetary affairs (EMAC), will next week vote (November 6) on the adoption of the draft report on taxation of occupational pensions by Dutch socialist MEP, Ieke van den Burg....
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Cerulli: Italian pensions growth remains 'sedate'
ITALY – Growth in pension fund assets in Italy remains relatively sedate, despite being substantially upgraded following the implementation of tax enhanced benefits for contributions, says Cerulli Associates in a new report, entitled: Trends in the Italian Asset Management Marketplace.....
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FTSE announces new mediscience index
UK – FTSE has announced the creation of a new index, FTSE techMARK mediscience, designed to reflect the market performance of growth companies listed on the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) new market, techMARK mediscience....
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L&G selects Dresdner funds for stakeholder
UK – Legal & General (L&G) has selected two Dresdner RCM funds as part of its stakeholder pension offering - the £40.2m (€64.6m) DRCM global equity fund and the £148m (€238m) DRCM UK equity fund....
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Julius Baer Asset Management appoints new CEO
SWITZERLAND – Julius Baer Asset Management (JBAM) has appointed Urs Landolt as new chief executive officer (CEO) at its Zurich office, with effect from February next year....
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Finnish exchange to get first ETFs
FINLAND – The Helsinki Stock Exchanges (HEX) is to see the introduction of the first exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the Finnish market early next year, to be managed by Seligson & Co Rahastoyhtiö Oyj....
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Willis Corroon buys Danish investment consultancy
DENMARK – London-based risk management and insurance advisory firm Willis Corroon has bought out DCG Consulting, the Danish advisory company, in a bid to target the country’s growing investment consultancy and unit-linked market....
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Companies losing millions in ineffective benefits
GLOBAL – Millions of pounds are being lost each year as a result of companies around the world not managing their benefits plans effectively, suggests the latest Towers Perrin (TP) World-wide Benefits Management Report...
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Consultants call for better admin standards
UK – The Society of Pension Consultants (SPC) has called for a co-ordinated approach within the pensions industry to further raise pension scheme administration standards....
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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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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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USF didn't 'second-guess' Mercury, says CIO Mayall
UK – The Unilever Superannuation Fund (USF) did not know about the technical level of risk involved in the investment of a £1bn portfolio by Mercury Asset Management (MAM) and could not be expected to “second-guess” the advice of the investment manager, Wendy Mayall CIO of USF today (Nov 1) ...
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Norwich Union adds external bond funds
UK – Norwich Union (NU) has introduced 57 external funds to its range of investment bonds....
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Crédit Agricole wins Italian institutional brief
ITALY – The Milan based Italian arm of French group, Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM), CAAM Sgr, has won an index-linked structured equity mandate from Parma based insurance group, Po’Vita, The size of the mandate will be between €45m and €65m.....
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Invesco Pensions wins Noble House mandate
UK – Invesco Pensions has won the mandate to provide stakeholder pension services for restaurant and leisure group Noble House.
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State Street gets £5bn Quilter FM custody account
UK – £5bn (€8bn) London based investment management company, Quilter Fund Management, has awarded a global custody and fund accounting mandate to State Street Corporation.
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Punter Southall announces trustee training dates
UK – Consulting actuaries company, Punter Southall & Co (PS), has published the dates for its latest trustee training programme 2001/2002....
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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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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 ...
