All IPE articles in November 2001 (Online) – Page 7
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RBC names new UK operations director
UK/CANADA - RBC global services, institutional & investor services (IIS) - Canada's largest custodian and a provider of securities services worldwide - has appointed Simon Coleman as its director of operations in the UK....
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Mellon buys out PwC HR consulting subsidiary
US - Mellon Financial Corporation and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today announced a $275m (e309m) all cash deal under which Mellon will acquire the human resources outsourcing and consulting businesses of Unifi Network, a PwC subsidiary – a move that makes Mellon the fourth-largest global provider of human resources consulting/administration services....
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Trafalgar launch low risk institutional hedge fund
UK - Trafalgar capital management, the London-based fund management firm, has received IMRO authorisation and launched its first global hedge fund, the Trafalgar Fund with an expected cap of $40m, which it is set to roll out to institutional investors in early 2002....
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Managers bullish on UK investment prospects
UK – The UK stock markets and economy are likely to continue to attract inward investment over the next 12 months, despite acceptance since September 11 of a worldwide recession, claims Stuart Fowler, head of UK equities at AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM)....
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ING to stamp its mark on Belgium's BBL
NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM - Dutch financial services group, ING is taking further steps towards rebranding its subsidiaries worldwide by incorporating the ING name and logo within its Belgian subsidiary, Banque Bruxelles Lambert (BBL) with the intention of dropping the BBL brand name in due course....
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ABN Amro Mellon lands $1bn Winterthur custody
GLOBAL – ABN Amro Mellon has won the global custody mandate for US$1bn (€1.1bn) XL Winterthur International (XLWI), the risk management arm of Bermuda based XL Capital.....
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UK pension funds still favour equities long term
UK – The flight out of equities into bonds by the £2.3bn (€3.7bn) Boots pension fund in October has not had an influence on other UK pension funds to follow suit, says Northern Trust (NT).
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DeAM names new European institutional sales head
EUROPE - Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has appointed Andreas Varnavides as Head of European Institutional Sales following the resignation of Mark Scott from the position....
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Friends' venture arm becomes ISIS Capital
UK - Friends Ivory & Sime Private Equity is to become ISIS Capital in a bid to make the subsidiary “distinctive” from its parent company....
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New European SRI forum launches
EUROPE – The socially responsible investment (SRI) market in Europe has been given a significant boost by the launch of the European Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (Eurosif) by a consortium of European social investment forums (SIFs) and with the financial support of the European Commission (EC)....
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Irish pensions association loses director
IRELAND – Des Crowther, director of the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF), has left the association to become chief executive of the Dublin-based Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management....
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ACA chairman warns on slide of UK pension schemes
UK - The government and pension funds should start working together to halt the slide in occupational pension schemes in the UK, says Mike Arnold, chairman of the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA)....
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Schroders appoints Germany/Austria country head
GERMANY/AUSTRIA – Schroder Investment Management has poached Martin Theisinger, the former head of European sales at JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management, to become its head of institutional sales and country head of asset management in Germany and Austria....
