All IPE articles in October 2001 (Online) – Page 4
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Crédit Agricole starts funds in Holland and Norway
NETHERLANDS/NORWAY – Crédit Agricole has gained approval from regulatory authorities in both the Netherlands and Norway to begin marketing the group’s Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV, CA-Funds, to institutional investors....
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UK balanced funds record worst returns since 1990
UK - Balanced funds have recorded their worst performance figures since the third quarter of 1990 during the last three months with a median return of –12.6%, according to the CAPS pooled pension fund survey Q3 2001 results....
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EC moves towards SRI standardisation welcomed
EUROPE – European Commission moves towards standardisation of SRI investment principles have been welcomed by Claudia Kruse, a leading UK SRI researcher, with a caveat that their implementation may not be so easy....
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ECOFIN gives 'five minutes' to pensions directive
EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE SPECIAL – The meeting of the Council of Economics and Finance Ministers (ECOFIN) in Luxembourg yesterday (Oct 16), gave little more than five minutes to the question of the European pensions directive and appears to have made scant headway in bringing a solution to the table for pan-European ...
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Bolkestein: EU directive is going 'nowhere fast'
EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE SPECIAL – EC Commissioner Frits Bolkestein has expressed his ‘deep concern’ to the European Council about the lack of priority given to the proposed European directive on occupational pension funds presented by the Commission a year ago, warning that it is going ‘nowhere fast’....
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Private equity investment drops off this year
EUROPE – Private equity investment across Europe decreased during the first six months of this year compared to last year, according to the EVCA Mid-Year Survey of Pan-European Private Equity and Venture Capital Activity, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers....
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Hedge fund returns dip for September
HEDGE FUNDS – Hedge funds took a hit in September but remain in positive territory for the year to date, according to figures collated from the CSFB/Tremont hedge fund index....
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Vontobel expands institutional venture services
SWITZERLAND – Zurich based Vontobel Private Equity is to launch two new direct investment products, Vontobel Early Stage Ventures and Vontobel Late Stage Ventures, to be funded by the Vontobel Group....
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Dutch custodian rebrands to become KAS BANK
NETHERLANDS – Dutch custody bank Kas-Associatie is to rebrand in the new year to become KAS BANK....
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Growth managers struggle to match benchmarks
UK – Growth fund managers were severely tested by market volatility during the 12 months to August 1, with both mainstream and small cap funds struggling to match their respective benchmarks, according to the latest report from Standard & Poor’s....
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Rothschild names new fixed income head
UK - Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) has appointed Abdallah Nauphal as the new head of its fixed income & currency group....
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Russia considers new draft law on pensions
RUSSIA – A fourth draft law on pensions has been put before the State Duma, the Russian lower legislative house...
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Punter Southall wins £85m fund advisory brief
UK – Consulting actuary firm Punter Southall has won the mandate to administer and advise on the £85m (€135m) defined benefit (DB) scheme of Oxford Instruments, a medical and superconductive equipment provider....
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NeoNet connects equity platform to Euronext
EUROPE/US – Stockholm and New York based real-time electronic equity trading services provider, NeoNet, has connected to the Euronext exchange platform....
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France must fund reserve rapidly, says think-tank
FRANCE – The French government should fund the country’s pensions reserve fund as quickly as possible and ensure the money is managed in a dynamic fashion as one of a number of measures to avoid the much trailed “demographic shock” of 2040, according to French think-tank Futuribles....
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Unilever/Merrill case enters the High Court
UK - The £4bn Unilever Superannuation Fund (USF) finally brought its £130m (e207m) law suit against Mercury Asset Management (now Merrill Lynch Investment Managers) to the High Court today, despite weeks of negotiation in an attempt to settle the case out of court....
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Northern Trust in €125m Italian multi-manager win
ITALY – Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has won a mandate to run four €125m seeded mutual funds for Italian banking group, Mediolanum.
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German pensions consultant registers with US SEC
GERMANY/US – Siemens Financial Services (SFS) pension advisory team has become the first German pensions consultant to be registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)....
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Credit Suisse buys SLC Asset Management
UK - Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has acquired SLC Asset Management Group (SLCAM), the UK asset management subsidiary of Sun Life Financial of Canada, in a deal that will add around £11bn to CSAM’s assets under management.....
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Watsons pulls in new HR consultants from industry
UK – Watson Wyatt has boosted its eHR consulting team with the appointment of two new consultants from industry, Ranbir Heyre from Microsoft and Guy Riches from Infinium Software....
