Real Estate – Page 98
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Commodities now the only ‘pure bull market’
GLOBAL - The only place where there is currently a pure bull market is in commodities, investment guru Jim Rogers told the SuperHedge conference today.
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Germany’s Babcock Pensionskasse removes CEO
GERMANY - Babcock Pensionskasse, the €460m pension fund of failed engineering firm Babcock, has stripped chief executive Günter Schulze of his responsibilities, sources say.
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Finland’s Varma earns 8% return in 2004
FINLAND – Varma, Finland’s largest private sector pension insurer, made an eight percent return on investments in 2004 - but said it would continue to “rationalise” its operations.
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German dentists hire Alpha as consultant
GERMANY - VZB, a Berlin-based pension fund for dentists, says it has hired Alpha Portfolio Advisors as its new investment consultant for its €700m portfolio.
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ING loses 10% of institutional assets in revamp
NETHERLANDS – ING’s asset management arm lost €13.8bn, or more than 10%, of its institutional assets under management in the last three months of 2004 - due to the reclassification of assets and a disposal.
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DeAM, SSGA, BGI lose Shropshire mandates
UK – Deutsche Asset Management, State Street Global Advisers and Barclays Global Investors have lost equity mandates worth a combined £160m (€231m) after a shake-up at Shropshire County Council Pension Fund.
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Ex-Isis institutional chief joins boutique
UK - Howard Daldorph, the former director of institutional funds for ISIS, has joined a boutique called Reabourne Technology Investment Management as marketing director, a new role.
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Germany’s BVI sees more institutional outsourcing
GERMANY - Providers of German institutional funds, or Spezialfonds, are increasingly outsourcing the management of their assets, according to new statistics from the BVI, Germany’s fund industry association.
