All IPE articles in October 2004 (Online)
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AP3 equities chief Eriksson leaves
SWEDEN – The 16.6 billion-euro Third Swedish National Pension Fund, Tredje AP-fonden or AP3, says Magnus Eriksson - head of equities management - is leaving the fund.
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Credit Suisse AM opens Dutch office
NETHERLANDS - Credit Suisse Asset Management has decided to open an office in Amsterdam targeting institutional clients.
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KAS names another successor to von Balluseck
NETHERLANDS – KAS Bank has named ING Group’s Albert Röell as successor to managing board chairman Sander von Balluseck.
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German consultant Bode looking for partners
GERMANY - Bode Grabner Beye, a German actuarial and benefits consulting firm, is actively seeking an international partner following the recent dissolution of its 22-year-old joint venture with Watson Wyatt.
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EFR calls for pan-European pensions approach
BELGIUM - A group of Europe's leading banking and insurance companies is calling for a new common structure for pension products sold anywhere in the EU, in the hope that this will lead to convergence of national pension systems.
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UK's Havering taps State Street for custody
UK - State Street says it has been awarded a 250 million-pound (364 million-euro) custody brief by the London Borough of Havering Pension Fund.
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Dutch pension funds fail IMF stress tests
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds’ solvency ratios could be hit by any number of “plausible macroeconomic shocks” that have been modelled by the International Monetary Fund in a series of hypothetical ‘stress tests’.
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UK pension fund disclosures this week
UK – The following are UK pension funds’ holdings in companies that have been disclosed this week under the Financial Services Authority’s stock market listing rules.
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Standard Life targets E1bn in new liability unit
UK - Standard Life Investments is targeting an extra one billion euros in assets under management at a new unit focusing on liability-driven investments for institutions.
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Pimco says it hires Schroders consultant head
UK - Fixed-income asset manager Pimco has hired Schroders’ Anne Fairchild-Jones as head of marketing communications in its London office- a new position.
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Hogg Robinson pensions arm for sale – report
UK – Hogg Robinson’s employee benefits consulting arm is set to sold, according to a newspaper report.
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OppenheimerFunds hires from BGI for Europe push
UK - US investment manager OppenheimerFunds Inc. has hired Adrian Gordon from Barclays Global Investors to spearhead a push into the European institutional market.
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New Swiss asset management firm launched
SWITZERLAND – Dutch bank Oyens & van Eeghen has launched an asset management company in Switzerland called Altis Investment Management in partnership with two former Morgan Stanley executives.
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Norway’s DNV buys CoreRatings
EUROPE – Corporate responsibility rating agency CoreRatings has been bought by Norwegian foundation Det Norske Veritas.
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Railpen’s Gray laments DB "destruction"
UK – Malcolm Gray, the recently-retired former finance director of the UK’s 14 billion-pound (20.3 billion-euro) Railways Pension Trustee Co., has expressed his regret about the closure of defined benefit schemes in the UK.
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Swedish pension chiefs working with Atlas
SWEDEN – Top executives in the Swedish pension industry are working with industrial group Atlas Copco on putting together a proposed board of directors.
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Academic warns of Italian pensioner poverty
ITALY- Italian workers face the risk of relative poverty if they do not save for their pensions, says the president of the National Commission for the Research on Social Exclusion.
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Former Nabarro pensions head forms own firm
UK – John Quarrell, former head of pensions, insurance and financial services at law firm Nabarro Nathanson, has set up his own firm specialising in pensions.
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RBS’s Clerkin to join Medical Research Council
UK – Jim Clerkin, pensions administrator at the Royal Bank of Scotland, is to join the Medical Research Council as pensions manager amid restructuring within RBS.
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UK consults on local government pensions
UK – The government has launched a consultation on the future of local government pensions – saying “affordability and sustainability” are key.
