All articles by Robert Fuller – Page 4

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    SEI targets French retail market via multi-manager

    2001-09-27T04:05:00Z

    FRANCE – SEI Investments has launched a new range of multi-manager funds aimed at French retail investors - an investment approach usually associated with institutional investors, through its Paris-based CCF-SEI joint venture....

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    Hedge funds stay in the black despite US crisis

    2001-09-27T04:05:00Z

    HEDGE FUNDS - The Crédit Suisse First Boston/Tremont (CSFB/Tremont) hedge fund index remains up 0.9% for August, despite a one-week delay attributed to the terrorist attack on New York two weeks ago....

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    Europol scheme retenders for managers

    2001-09-27T04:04:00Z

    NETHERLANDS/EUROPE – The e3.5m The Hague based Europol pension fund, the scheme for officials of Europe’s police organisation has reopened a tender for administration, investment management and risk coverage of the fund that it abandoned earlier this year after poor response from investment managers....

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    Former NAPF chair to head private pensions review

    2001-09-27T04:04:00Z

    UK – Former National Association of Pension Funds’ (NAPF) chairman, Alan Pickering, has been nominated by the government to head its comprehensive review of private pensions legislation with a mandate to draft a package of proposals designed to simplify the law....

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    SSgA and Friends Ivory in SRI index funds venture

    2001-09-25T05:11:00Z

    UK – State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) and Friends Ivory & Sime (FI&S) have announced a joint venture project to provide index-tracking funds with a specific socially responsible investment (SRI) overlay to UK pension funds....

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    Russell appoints UK institutional sales manager

    2001-09-25T05:07:00Z

    UK – Frank Russell Company has appointed Jamie Downing as manager of UK sales in its London-based institutional investment services team....

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    UK public becoming pensions 'aware', says survey

    2001-09-25T05:05:00Z

    UK – The public is becoming more aware of pensions and the need to save for retirement provision, says a government-sponsored study into the results of the advertising campaign initiated at the beginning of this year....

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    Institutions get global real estate index

    2001-09-25T05:02:00Z

    GLOBAL – A new global real estate index which favours institutional investors is to be launched next month by the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and Euronext....

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    GAM launches delayed US equities fund

    2001-09-25T05:01:00Z

    UK/US – Global Asset Management (GAM) has launched a new Dublin domiciled large and mid-cap US equities fund, GAM Star American Focus....

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    Deutsche and Zurich in huge swap deal

    2001-09-25T04:41:00Z

    GERMANY/ SWITZERLAND / UK / US – Major German financial group, Frankfurt based Deutsche Bank (DB) is to acquire for US$ 2.5bn (€2.7bn) the entire shareholding of New York based Zurich Scudder Investments...

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    IPE to award AIMSE scholarship again

    2001-09-25T04:41:00Z

    EUROPE – IPE has announced its second IPE AIMSE Scholarship, whereby a European marketing or sales professional will be able to attend the AIMSE Wharton Investment Institute in Pennsylvania next January...

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    Health sector pension fund initiative by VKG-CPM

    2001-09-24T06:01:00Z

    BELGIUM – VKG-CPM, the €552m Belgian pension fund for doctors, dentists and pharmacists, is to establish a new supplementary healthcare sector pension fund under Amonis, its new platform for services in this area.

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    Easing of MFR proposals welcomed by advisers

    2001-09-24T06:00:00Z

    UK – The calls for the government as part of its minimum funding requirement (MFR) reform to introduce transitional measures to ease the burden of the current system have been heeded, says international consultants Watson Wyatt (WW).

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    Property markets count cost of NY terrorist attack

    2001-09-24T05:45:00Z

    US SPECIAL – Direct losses to downtown Manhattan’s real estate market in the recent terrorist attack on New York could be as much as US$10bn (€11bn), claims Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL).

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    Mercer in Huntsman Tioxide £380m pensions mandate

    2001-09-24T05:31:00Z

    UK – William M. Mercer has been appointed as investment consultant for the £380m (€608m) combined Tioxide and Huntsman pension schemes.

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    Right time to amend MFR, says pension fund survey

    2001-09-21T05:17:00Z

    UK – The Government’s proposed reform to the minimum funding requirement (MFR) couldn’t come at a better time, according to a survey of pension fund scheme compliance and standards by Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT).

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    Spain outlines need for pension reform

    2001-09-20T05:36:00Z

    SPAIN – The Spanish state pension fund will have reserves until 2015 and will remain solvent, provided the government adopts measures to deal with the country’s ageing population, according to a study of the work place undertaken by the department of social security and reported by El País.

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    UK examines pensions transfer rights issue

    2001-09-20T05:24:00Z

    UK – The government has issued a consultation paper on reform of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations act of 1981 (TUPE), which considers the treatment of occupational pension fund transfers.....

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    Gissings introduces DB/DC trustee courses

    2001-09-20T05:18:00Z

    UK – Employee benefits company, Gissings, has added two new trustee courses to its roster of training programmes....

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    Russell wins e80m Dutch pension fund mandate

    2001-09-20T02:57:00Z

    NETHERLANDS – The pension fund of international Dutch operating industrial and technology company, Stork, has appointed Frank Russell Company to manage an approximate €80m world-wide equity mandate for its €1.5bn pension fund....