All IPE articles in October 2001 (Online) – Page 6
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Europe's best third-party fund suppliers named
EUROPE – Fidelity has been ranked the best supplier of third party funds in Europe for the fourth year running, according to a survey of 300 European distributors carried out by Sector Analysis, the London based pan European asset management research firm....
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MFS appoints new head of UK sales
MFS International U.K. has appointed Jonathan Willcocks as its director of sales....
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Karas accuses ECOFIN of delay tactics on pensions
EUROPE - Othmar Karas, the European Parliament rapporteur for the occupational pensions directive, has hit out at the lack of progress made in the ECOFIN meeting of October 16 and accused the Council of Ministers of delaying tactics over the pensions debate.....
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e150m Italian electric fund appoints five managers
ITALY – Fopen, the e150m pension fund for employees of the Italian electricity utility, Enel, has appointed five new investment managers to the fund – two overseas and three domestic players....
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Dobson joins Schroders as new chief executive
UK – Schroders has appointed Michael Dobson as chief executive and set out proposals to acquire Dobson’s own asset management firm, Beaumont, for £33.5m (€53.4m) as part of the deal...
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Zurich hosts European pension systems conference
EUROPE/UK – The Oxford Institute of Ageing is organising a one day conference, hosted by Zurich Financial Services, to highlight the ways different countries approach private and public pension provision....
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Nasdaq Europe names new CEO
UK – Nasdaq Europe has appointed Michael Sanderson as chief executive officer (CEO)....
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EC calls on Europe's pensions community to act
EUROPE - The EFRP proposal for a pan-European pension vehicle – the European Institute for Occupational Retirement Provision (EIORP), did not get through the ECOFIN council meeting last week, tax expert Peter Schonewille said today (Oct 22) at the EFRP/NAPF International conference in Brussels....
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e150bn ABP fund launches Loyalis insurance arm
NETHERLANDS – The e150bn ABP pension fund has re-branded its insurance division as Loyalis, dropping the former ABP Insurance name in line with legislation to come into the Netherlands from January 1 next year....
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Dutch construction fund splits into three schemes
NETHERLANDS – The NLG500m pension fund for construction related group, NBM Amstelland, is to divide into three different schemes after the company was split up, in a move that has put a number of investment management and administration mandates up for grabs in the Dutch market....
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Watson Wyatt loses senior Swiss consultant
SWITZERLAND – Watson Wyatt in Switzerland has lost one of its senior investment consultants with the departure of Gioacchino Puglia to Swiss private bank Darier Hentsch....
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Punter Southall wins £67m BACS fund brief
UK – Pensions and benefits consultancy firm, Punter Southall, has been appointed as actuaries and administrators to the £67m (€107m) defined benefit (DB) pension fund of BACS, the global automated clearing house company....
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Denmark's Tryg-Baltica reshuffles executive board
DENMARK – Tryg-Baltica Liv og Pension has reshuffled its executive management board and changed its name to Tryg-Baltica Pension to reflect its new status as a separate legal entity as well as a separate business unit.....
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GAM hires Thompson to expand European focus
FRANCE - Global Asset Management (GAM) has appointed Joanna Thompson as a director for Europe, a newly created position with specific responsibility of promoting GAM’s institutional operation in the French-speaking regions of Europe....
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German savings banks to create new pensions arm
GERMANY - The German public savings’ bank network, the Deutsche Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes (DSGV), is to enter into a joint venture with its insurance equivalents in order to compete with its private rivals in the new pensions market in Germany, Dietrich H. Hoppenstedt, the network’s president, has said in an ...
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Insurers may win out in German pensions boom
GERMANY – The new German pensions market could exceed the current estimate of €53bn if the public sector joins the rush and tax reforms decided by the Supreme Court are implemented, says Commerzbank Securities (ComSec) in a special report on German pensions....
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Hewitt becomes global equity director at FIS
UK – Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS) has appointed Peter Hewitt as director of global equities in its fund management team in London....
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JP Morgan Fleming launches global cash portal
GLOBAL – J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management (JPMF), has launched the Global Cash Portal (GCP), an internet-based platform enabling JPMF’s institutional treasury clients to access cash management products worldwide....
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BGI offer new institutional asset allocation fund
UK – Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has launched the BGI UK Equity Ascent Asset Allocation Fund, which operates by taking positive and negative positions on 30 different equity, bond and currency markets....
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Pension funds should go for gold, says WGC
UK – Managers of pension funds and other institutional funds in the UK should not ignore gold when looking at alternative asset classes, according to Dr Robert Weinberg, head of institutional investment at the World Gold Council….
