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Van Lanschot hires FMC for investment operations
NETHERLANDS – ‘s-Hertogenbosch based private and institutional asset manager Van Lanschot Asset Management has selected the Financial Models Company (FMC) to manage its front-to-back office investment operations....
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Sampo names new investor relations head
FINLAND/SCANDINAVIA – Jarmo Salonen has been promoted to head of investor relations at Helsinki based financial services group Sampo, from September 1...
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Sweden's AP2 and AP3 funds make top level hires
SWEDEN – The government pension buffer funds AP2 and AP3 have made a number of top level appointments to their in-house investment teams....
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INVESCO restructures retail and institutional arms
UK – INVESCO has restructured its UK organisation in order to focus on its separate retail and institutional businesses and deal with the group’s expansion following the acquisitions of Perpertual and GT....
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Huerta to lead Spanish institutional sales at R&SA
Victoria Huerta has been appointed as sales director of retail and institutional funds at the Madrid office of Royal & Sun Alliance Investments Luxembourg.... And all the week's major people moves....
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Sandler to review retail element in Myners report
UK – Ron Sandler, former chief executive of Lloyd’s bank and chief operating officer of NatWest Group, has been appointed by the British government to conduct the review into the retail end of the long-term savings industry, as recommended by the Myners report on institutional investment earlier this year...
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Mellon names new vice-chairmen
US - The board of directors at Mellon Financial has named Steve Canter, chairman and chief executive officer of Dreyfus, a subsidiary of Mellon, and Ronald O’Hanley, president of Mellon Institutional Asset Management, as vice-chairmen...
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Watson Wyatt appoints new Spanish office director
Consultant Watson Wyatt in Spain has appointed Javier Fañanás as director of its Barcelona office....
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Kas bags Kajtazi for UK custody push
UK/NETHERLANDS – Dutch custodian bank, Kas-Associatie, has brought on board Ben Kajtazi from Brown Brothers Harriman as the group’s first relationship manager for its recently launched UK operations....
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Euro is a threat to UK small caps, says industry
UK/EUROPE – The majority of UK fund managers, broker analysts, and smaller companies believe that small cap UK companies will not benefit from joining the European Monetary Union (EMU), according to a Reuters survey, conducted by London-based Tempest Consultants.
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Misson to market Citibank custody in N.W. Europe
FRANCE/BENELUX – Thierry Misson has been appointed as regional market manager for North Western Europe at Citibank Worldwide Securities Services (WWSS)....
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Washington launches new European hedge fund
EUROPE – Adrian Farthing has been appointed by the Washington Financial Group to manage its new European hedge fund targeted at European, UK and US offshore institutional investors and funds of funds....
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R&SA appoints Spanish institutional sales director
SPAIN - Royal & Sun Alliance Investments Luxembourg has appointed Victoria Huerta as sales director for retail and institutional funds in Spain....
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Mercury Private Equity becomes HgCapital
UK – Mercury Private Equity, the London based venture capital outfit, which was spun off from Mercury Asset Management last year, has renamed itself HgCapital....
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£300m pension fund appoints BoNY as custodian
UK - The £300m Laporte Group Pension Trust, the pension fund for the multinational chemicals company Laporte has appointed The Bank of New York as global custodian.
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Pohjola and Conventum create new financial group
FINLAND – The announced merger between Helsinki-based insurance group Pohjola and investment manager Conventum also brings the office network of pension insurance group Ilmarinen and life insurer Suomi to the new joint financial services company for the Finnish market.
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UK government appoints new minister of pensions
UK – Alistair Darling is to remain in his position as secretary of state for work and pensions following the reshuffle of UK government posts after last week’s general election. Ian McCartney comes in as new minister of pensions....
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Northern scoops e1bn master custody brief
UK – The £640m (e1bn) Falkirk Council pension fund in Scotland has appointed Northern Trust as its master custodian, in a move which follows the recent appointment of Capital International to an approximately £128m UK/European equities brief....
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Accel lines up hi-tech team for European office
EUROPE/US – The US venture capital firm, Accel Partners, is expanding into Europe and has appointed Kevin Comolli to lead its European operations from London, with a team of well known technology experts.
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Sampo plans ahead of a controversial merger
FINLAND/NORWAY – The Finnish financial group Sampo makes appointments in anticipation of a merger between Sampo and the Norwegian asset manager and pension insurance house Storebrand.
