All IPE articles in September 2001 (Online)
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State Street hires new head of investor relations
State Street Corporation has appointed S. Kelley MacDonald senior vice president and head of investor relations....
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Russian pension reforms may flounder
RUSSIA – Pension assets in Russia will serve merely as a means of directly financing the federal budget deficit, warns Mikhail Dmitriev, scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Centre and co-chair of the Post-Soviet Economies in Transition project, in an interview to the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia’s official daily state ...
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SEB hires Klagsburn to head new investment unit
SWEDEN - Harry Klagsbrun has been named as the new executive vice president of Swedish financial services group SEB and head of SEB Invest, its investment management arm....
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Swedish regulator issues insurer reserves warning
SWEDEN – The Swedish financial supervisory authority - Finansinspektionen(FI) has issued a warning about unsatisfactory reserves in six Swedish life insurance companies, adding that it will sharpen its supervision of these companies due to the recent falls in the stock markets.
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ABN AMRO Mellon gets £2.7bn Marconi fund custody
UK – ABN AMRO Mellon (AAM) has won a £2.7bn (€4.3bn) global custody and investment accounting mandate from Stanhope Pension Trust, the investment management arm of telecommunications giant, Marconi’s UK pension fund....
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Zurich selects new Northern Europe business head
SWITZERLAND – Zurich Financial Services (Zurich) has appointed Axel Lehmann to head up its Northern European business operations....
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Pension fund property exposure up in Q2
UK – Insurance companies and pension funds increased their exposure to commercial property in the second quarter of this year, according to DTZ Research reporting on data published by National Statistics (NS), the UK’s official government statistical research body....
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Clariden sells sector funds in Germany/Luxembourg
GERMANY/LUXEMBOURG/SWITZERLAND – Zurich based Claritin Bank is to launch a range of eight SICAV global equity sector funds in Germany and Luxembourg in October....
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Helsinki stock exchange signs up with Euronext
EUROPE – Pan-European stock exchange, Euronext, has signed a cross membership agreement with Hex, the Helsinki exchange, designed to allow members from both exchanges to develop mutual trading activities....
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Mercer urges calm amidst market storms
Consultant William M. Mercer is cautioning pension funds not to make hasty investment decisions in response to current market volatility....
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Allied Irish and BoNY in custody tie-up
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) and The Bank of New York (BoNY) have formed a new fund administration joint venture in Dublin to target the domestic Irish and global custody and trustee businesses....
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Watsons poaches PWC team for new Belgian arm
BELGIUM – Watson Wyatt in Brussels has pulled off a significant coup in the Belgian market by luring a team of senior management staff from rival firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), including PWC’s forming insurance consulting team head, Karel Goosens, to head up a new insurance consultancy division.....
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Singer & Friedlander lands £135m equity mandate
UK – Singer & Friedlander Investment Management (SFIM) has won a mandate to run the £135m (€216m) continental European equity mandate portion of J Rothschild Assurance UK (JRA) Life and Pension Funds, part of the St James’s Place Group....
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SEI targets French retail market via multi-manager
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
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
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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Merrill Lynch investment chief quits the firm
US - Merrill Lynch has announced that Robert Doll has been promoted from the position of CIO to president of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) in a move that sees him replace former MLIM chief, Jeffrey Peek, who is leaving the firm....
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Former NAPF chair to head private pensions review
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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Talks on pan-European industry fund revealed
BELGIUM/EUROPE – European healthcare sector pension funds have started preliminary discussions over the possible creation of a pan-European industry fund, according to Amonis the newly created healthcare sector fund in Belgium....
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Belgian health sector fund could attract 250,000
BELGIUM – Yesterday’s announcement in Brussels that the VKG-CPM, €552m Belgian pension fund for doctors, dentists and pharmacists, had established a new supplementary healthcare sector pension fund, ‘Amonis’, with a potential active membership of 250,000, is possibly one of the most significant in the Belgian pensions and investments markets in ...
