All IPE articles in October 2001 (Online) – Page 3
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Dresdner RCM scoops £100m Lattice mandate
UK – Lattice Group, the infrastructure technology firm that demerged from British Gas last year, has hired Dresdner RCM Global Investors to manage a Global Balanced mandate worth approximately £100m (e160m)...
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Threadneedle promotes Arkle to CIO role
UK/EUROPE – Threadneedle Investments has announced that Sarah Arkle will take on the role of chief investment officer (CIO) at the firm on completion of the sale of Zurich Scudder Investments to Deutsche Bank....
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Hermes expands management team post Myners
UK - Hermes Focus Asset Management (HFAM), one of the UK’s largest institutional fund managers, has expanded and reorganised its management team in response to calls in the UK Myners report for greater intervention by shareholders in investee companies....
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Gartmore launches new venture fund
UK - Gartmore Investment has launched a new Venture Capital Trust (VCT), the Gartmore Premier VCT PLC....
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Watson Wyatt acquires French consultancy firm
FRANCE – Global consultancy firm, Watson Wyatt has acquired Paris based human consultancy and assessment firm, Optimhom.
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Gissings wins mandate for £25m taxi firm funds
UK – Employee benefits and consultancy firm, Gissings, has won the mandate to provide full services to the £25m (€40m) defined benefit (DB) and £10m (€16m) defined contribution (DC) schemes of Manganese Bronze, the London taxi manufacturer....
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SEB puts out two new corporate bond funds
SWEDEN – SEB Investments has launched two new corporate bond funds, SEB Lux Bond Fund – Corporate Bonds Euro and the SEB Lux Bond Fund – Corporate Bonds – SEK....
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Swissair says pension funds remain solvent
SWITZERLAND – The financial position of the €4bn Swissair group Pensionskassen remains positive, despite the Swissair going bankrupt and trading problems in recent months, says Swissair Group Pensions (SGP)....
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VKG drops Jennison and Invesco from e65m mandates
BELGIUM – The e550m Brussels-based VKG/CPM pension fund has dropped fund managers Jennison Associates and Invesco Asia from mandates totalling e65m, prior to the introduction of the new healthcare sector pension fund, ‘Amonis’ that the scheme is backing.....
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France’s NBP in European multi-manager drive
FRANCE – Paris based Natexis Banques Populaires (NBP) has launched a new multi-management and investor services specialist subsidiary, Asset Square...
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Mark moves from WM to head iBoxx in Frankfurt
GERMANY – David Mark has been appointed chief executive officer of iBoxx, the new fixed income indices joint venture company between ABN Amro, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Morgan Stanley, UBS Warburg and Deutsche Börse.
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Boadicea heralds all girl hedge fund management
UK – Europe’s first and only all female hedge fund management company, Deco Capital, has been launched, kicking off operations with the Boadicea fund...
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VKG awards property assets to Lend Lease
BELGIUM – The e550m Brussels-based VKG/CPM pension fund is to hire Australian property group Lend Lease Houlihan Rovers (LHR) to an e45m property mandate split between Europe and the US....
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AP3 completes first phase of €577m Asian mandates
SWEDEN – The initial tender period to find managers for the €577m Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) and Japan equity funds of the Third Swedish National Pension Fund, AP3, as put out in July, is now complete.
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Pensions part of German wage bargaining says aba
GERMANY – The recent collective bargaining contracts between the metal and chemical workers’ industry associations and their respective trade unions signal the beginning of a trend that is helping to reshape the German pension fund industry...
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Outsourcing management key trend on Continent
EUROPE – Institutional investors across continental Europe are increasingly outsourcing their asset management, according to the results of a soon to be published survey by Greenwich Associates(GA), the Connecticut based research and consultancy firm.
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Call to extend employers’ stakeholder exemptions
UK – Fines totalling £10bn (€16bn) could be imposed on companies not meeting the new stakeholder pensions deadline of 8 October, claims David Willetts, the Conservative Party’s spokesperson for work and pensions issue, in a private report.
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Kottmann quits Complementa to go independent
SWITZERLAND - Felix Kottmann is leaving leading Swiss consultants Complementa after nine years with the St Gallen-based firm. Kottmann, who is a member of the executive committee, says: “After this time, I feel it is important to take a break and do something new. I think it is the ...
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UK pension funds deserting equities
UK – FRS 17, the new accounting standard for pension funds in the UK is causing dramatic shifts in portfolio composition, says an equity research report by Deutsche Bank (DB).
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Railtrack poser for pension fund investors
UK – It’s still too early to know if pension funds have a right to action in the collapse of Railtrack, the UK’s railway station and track maintenance group, says Robin Ellison, chairman of the pensions group at the London office of international legal firm, Eversheds...
