All IPE articles in October 2004 (Online) – Page 9

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    Railpen’s Gray laments DB "destruction"

    4 October 2004

    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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    Norway’s DNV buys CoreRatings

    4 October 2004

    EUROPE – Corporate responsibility rating agency CoreRatings has been bought by Norwegian foundation Det Norske Veritas.

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    New Swiss asset management firm launched

    4 October 2004

    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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    OppenheimerFunds hires from BGI for Europe push

    4 October 2004

    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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    Hogg Robinson pensions arm for sale – report

    4 October 2004

    UK – Hogg Robinson’s employee benefits consulting arm is set to sold, according to a newspaper report.

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    Pimco says it hires Schroders consultant head

    4 October 2004

    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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    Standard Life targets E1bn in new liability unit

    1 October 2004

    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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    UK pension fund disclosures this week

    1 October 2004

    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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    Dutch pension funds fail IMF stress tests

    1 October 2004

    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's Havering taps State Street for custody

    1 October 2004

    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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    EFR calls for pan-European pensions approach

    1 October 2004

    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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    German consultant Bode looking for partners

    1 October 2004

    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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    KAS names another successor to von Balluseck

    1 October 2004

    NETHERLANDS – KAS Bank has named ING Group’s Albert Röell as successor to managing board chairman Sander von Balluseck.

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    Credit Suisse AM opens Dutch office

    1 October 2004

    NETHERLANDS - Credit Suisse Asset Management has decided to open an office in Amsterdam targeting institutional clients.

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    AP3 equities chief Eriksson leaves

    1 October 2004

    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.