All IPE articles in November 2001 (Online) – Page 4
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Nasdaq Europe in German exchange alliance
GERMANY – The Berlin Stock Exchange (BSE) and NASDAQ Europe (NE) have announced details of a partnership to create a common trading platform, the first time an international stock exchange has formed a direct link with the German equities market....
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Nordea signs up Northern Trust for US custody
US – Nordea Investment Management (NIM), the US fund management arm of the Nordic group, has appointed Northern Trust as global custodian and fund accountant to its new Delaware institutional business trust....
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Accord reached on Finnish pension reforms
FINLAND – Finnish labour organisations have reached a last-ditch agreement on reform of the country’s first-pillar TEL pensions system, although some confusion remains as to the exact nature and timing of some of the proposed reforms....
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Lennard: Mercury
UK – Mercury Asset Management (MAM) had been “under pressure” to boost performance after several years of flat returns when Carol Galley appointed a 27 year-old fund manager, Alistair Lennard, to manage the £600m USF UK equity portfolio, the high court was told today (November 14). ...
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Fidelity offers three new institutional funds
UK/EUROPE - Fidelity Investments has launched three new institutional pooled funds, the UK Multi-Manager, UK High Alpha and pan-European Funds, to meet what it believes is a gap in the market for small and medium sized pension plans....
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JP Morgan launches market protected fund
UK - JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management has launched a new fund that seeks to provide institutional investors with full capital protection from stock market fluctuations....
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Companies failing on governance, says NAPF
Only 19% of Britain’s top companies meet investors’ highest corporate governance expectations, according to a survey carried out by the UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF)....
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Nomura hires veteran UK institutional adviser
UK - Nomura Asset Management has appointed Philip Sellers, CBE, a former trustee to the Post Office Pension Funds (now Consignia), as an adviser to its London based institutional operation....
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Mellon reshuffles management for European growth
UK/EUROPE - Mellon Financial Corporation (Mellon) has announced a raft of senior European management changes as it sets its sights on business growth on the continent, beginning with the move of Jack Klinck, Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy and Development, to London as head of Mellon Europe.... ...
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Gissings wins LOGiCOM European admin brief
EUROPE – Employee benefits consultancy company, Gissings, has won the mandate to provide full pensions services to the UK and continental European pension schemes of LOGiCOM, the IT inventory and supply chain company....
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SEI appoints UK client services director
UK – SEI Investments has appointed Nigel Down as client service director to its UK institutional team, a newly created position.....
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JPMorgan retains £6.8bn ICI custody mandate
UK – The £6.8bn (e11bn) ICI Pension Fund has reappointed JPMorgan Investor Services as its global custodian for a further three years following an extensive review....
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Stamp duty hike will be a tax on pension funds
UK – A rumour that the next UK budget will include an increase in stamp duty from 4% to 5% on properties over £500,000 (€807,000) will effectively be a tax on pension funds, warns chartered accountants, Kingston Smith (KS).....
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Schroder Pensions adds to DC multi-manager funds
UK - Schroder Pensions has added five new funds to its defined contribution (DC) multi-manager platform , three from Scottish fund manager Baillie Gifford and two from Morley....
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Standard and Poor's hires Europe index head
EUROPE - Standard & Poor’s Index Services (Europe) has appointed of Susan Fagg as a director with responsibility for index management in Europe....
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FTSE4Good completes SRI index line-up
UK – The socially responsible investment (SRI) index, FTSE4Good, has today (November 19) completed its line-up of SRI benchmarks with the launch of two new indices, the FTSE4Good Global Index and the FTSE4Good US Index....
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Robeco issues hedge fund backed bond
NETHERLANDS - Robeco Alternative Investments has launched the Robeco Protected Absolute Return (PAR) Note, with returns based on a basket of hedge funds – the first time such a bond with a principal guarantee has been issued for the Dutch market....
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ABN Amro launches SRI equity fund
NETHERLANDS/LUXEMBOURG – ABN Amro has launched the Socially Responsible Equity Fund (SREF), a Luxembourg based fund aimed at both private and institutional investors.....
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Baring scoops £80m Pirelli fixed income brief
UK – Baring Asset Management (BAM) has won an £80m (€129m) fixed income mandate from the Pirelli Common Investment Fund (PCIF), the UK the Italian tyre and cable company’s UK pensions arm....
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Hermes finalises European focus fund team
UK/EUROPE – London based Hermes Focus Asset Management Europe (HFAME) has announced the appointment of a number of senior continental European investment bankers to the team that will run the new Hermes European Focus fund, to be launched early next year....
