All IPE articles in October 2001 (Online) – Page 8
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Sweden's Alecta appoints new marketing head
SWEDEN – Hans Bergenheim has been appointed as marketing director at SKr340bn (€36bn) Alecta, the Stockholm based pension plan and asset management firm....
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Schemes will have to go public, says consultant
UK – Pension fund managers will soon be obliged to act as if their funding and investment strategies were entirely in the public domain, a pensions and benefits conference organised by UK consultant, Hymans Robertson, has been told.....
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Dresdner races home with £64m Pirelli fund brief
UK – Dresdner RCM Global Investors has been selected to run a £64m (€103m) global equity mandate by the London based Pirelli Common Investment Fund, the Italian tyre and cable company’s UK pensions’ arm....
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NAPF and FMA initiate trading costs code
UK – The UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and the Fund Managers’ Association (FMA) are to set up a disclosure code on trading costs for fund managers.....
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Boots fund bond bias may herald UK trend
UK – The decision by the £2.3bn (e2.7bn) Boots group pension fund to switch to a 100% bond portfolio yesterday, as reported on IPE-Newsline, could signal the start of a trend amongst pension funds, but one that will be restricted to the UK, says Avinash Persaud of State Street....
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Man launches new capital guaranteed hedge funds
EUROPE – International alternative investment management company, Man Investment Products (MIP), has launched its latest capital guaranteed product, Man Multi-Strategy Series 3 Ltd, which will be available in both US$ and Euro class bonds....
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HypoVereinsbank lands German chemical sector deal
GERMANY – The Munich based financial services group, HypoVereinsbank (HVB), is to set up and manage the new industry-wide German chemical workers pension fund, as reported by IPE-Newsline on October 4....
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Country 'leaders' named in European pension awards
EUROPE – The first ever pan-European awards to recognise pension scheme excellence in investment and fund structure/administration has reached its preliminary stages by naming the ‘Country Leaders’ in each category before they go ahead to a glittering Brussels ceremony to find the continent’s most professional funds....
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ABP signs up to AIT market neutral fund
US/EUROPE - Advanced Investment Technology (AIT), a unit of State Street Global Alliance – the firm’s strategic partnership with e150bn Dutch pension fund ABP to invest seed capital in fledgling specialist asset management firms, has launched a long/short market neutral strategy product, securing ABP itself as its first client..... ...
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Unilever fund CIO Wendy Mayall in the witness box
UK - Wendy Mayall, chief investment officer (CIO) of the Unilever pension fund, today (Oct 30) took to the witness stand in the high court to defend the Unilever Superannuation Fund’s (USF) decision to sue Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM ) for £130m (e210m) alleging negligence by Mercury Asset Management ...
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USF may not have 'sufficiently' monitored Mercury
UK – The Unilever Superannuation Fund (USF) may not have sufficiently monitored the performance of its investment portfolios, nor considered what would happen in the likelihood that managers would underperform over a longer period than outlined in their manager agreement, it was alleged in the high court today, in the ...
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Gruver joins SEI as UK institutional director
UK – SEI Investments has appointed Marianne Gruver as director to its institutional team in London, with specific responsibility for the development of trustee directed products and solutions....
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AXA Rosenberg wins £44m from Ciba scheme
UK – London based quantitative asset manager, Axa Rosenberg, has won a £44m (€71m) pan-European equity mandate from the £449m pension scheme of Ciba Specialty Chemicals UK….
