All articles by Robert Fuller – Page 12
-
News
Dresdner poaches ING executives in Dutch push
NETHERLANDS – Dresdner RCM Global Investors has opened a new Amsterdam office and poached two senior sales executives, Richard Mouw and Michel Ho, from ING Asset Management to market the group’s institutional pension fund products to the Dutch market....
-
News
Soc Gen completes buy-out of US firm TCW
FRANCE/US – Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM) has completed its 51% purchase of Los Angeles based fund managers, TCW, by promoting Philippe Citerne, chief executive officer (CEO), and Philippe Collas, chairman and CEO of SGAM, to the board of directors of TCW....
-
News
First Quadrant promotes Goodsall to chairman slot
UK – US quant house, First Quadrant, has appointed Bill Goodsall as chairman and promoted Robert Brown to the position of managing director in its London office....
-
News
Gissings gets mandate for new DuPont scheme
UK – DuPont, the polyester, resin and fibre products company, has appointed employee benefits advisor Gissings, to take care of pension scheme administration and accounting services for a new money purchase scheme....
-
News
Consultant role to grow post-Myners, says Aon
UK – Investment consultants can expect to have greater responsibility advising pension schemes on their investments, following the recommendations of the Myners report, according to Adrian Swales head of investment practice at Aon Consulting....
-
News
State Street provides access to Merrill funds
UK – Merrill Lynch’s institutional liquidity funds have been made available via State Street’s online service, Fund Connect....
-
News
Russell wins three Dutch pension fund mandates
NETHERLANDS – Multi-manager investment firm, the Frank Russell Company, has picked up three new mandates from Dutch pension funds....
-
News
BNP Paribas teams up with hedge fund specialist
UK/FRANCE – BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNP PAM) and London based hedge fund specialist firm, Fauchier Partners, have announced the establishment of a joint venture company to manage all of BNP PAM’s hedge funds...
-
News
EU proposes pensions sustainability push
EUROPE – The EU has proposed a union-wide effort to ensure that pensions offer a sustained source of income to the retired and disabled....
-
News
Property still outperforming, says report
UK – Property is continuing to outperform other asset classes, according to a report by Baring, Houston & Saunders....
-
News
Singer & Friedlander revamps web presence
UK – Investment manager Singer & Friedlander has relaunched its institutional website to reflect the integration of its funds and asset management divisions....
-
News
Deutsche says German reforms may buck EU trend
GERMANY - The recent pension fund reform legislation in Germany will run counter to the efforts of the European Union (EU) to create a single pension funds market, according to a study by Deutsche Bank Research in Frankfurt....
-
News
UK lawyer claims annuities for women are unjust
UK – Robert Morfee, a partner at law firm Clarke Willmott & Clarke, has launched a campaign against UK law that obliges women to buy annuities, suggesting that it is discriminatory and could be in breach of European and human rights legislation....
-
News
State Street buys portfolio accounting firm
US – State Street has announced that it has closed the acquisition of DST Systems’ portfolio accounting service business, Portfolio Accounting System (PAS), which is used by six of the top 20 mutual fund complexes in the US. ...
-
News
Hermes draws the line on company share options
UK – Pension fund manager Hermes Investment Management has drawn a clear line on the debate over executive share option remuneration, by announcing that it will not support resolutions put to shareholders for executive share options re-pricing in any of its 3000 worldwide public company investments....
-
News
Nomura electrified by £55m Pacific basin brief
UK – Nomura Asset Management UK has been appointed to manage a £55m (€91.3m) Pacific basin mandate by London Electricity group pension fund, part of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme....
-
News
Colin Harris steps down as Newton chief executive
UK – Colin Harris, chief executive at Newton and one if its founders, has decided to step down, following the full acquisition of the firm by Mellon....
-
News
Gartmore adds to hedge fund range
UK - Gartmore Investment Management has launched the AlphaGen Pictor fund, the fourth equity hedge fund in the AlphaGen series, a non-directional long / short Pacific and global emerging markets fund....
-
News
£26bn UK coal funds re-appoint JP Morgan
UK – The trustee board of the £26bn British Coal Pension Schemes has re-appointed JP Morgan Investor Services as global custodian....
-
News
Brown Brothers Harriman lands e1.65bn SEI fund
IRELAND – Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has been appointed global subcustodian for the SEI Global Master Fund, with assets over $1.4bn (€1.65bn) - amassed mainly in South Africa and the UK, its first areas of distribution....
