All IPE articles in September 2001 (Online) – Page 2
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Rodamco takes ABP to court over Westfield sale
NETHERLANDS – Rotterdam based Rodamco North America (RNA) is taking legal action against giant Dutch pension fund, ABP, following the sale of ABP’s 23.9% shareholding in RNA to Westfield Holdings, the large Sydney based international shopping centre development company.....
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SSgA and Friends Ivory in SRI index funds venture
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
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
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
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
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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Watsons poaches Mercer chief for Swedish office
SWEDEN – Watson Wyatt has poached Johan Sidenmark the former head of rival consultant William M.Mercer’s Stockholm-based retirement practice, to head up the firm’s own Stockholm employee benefits business....
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Deutsche and Zurich in huge swap deal
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
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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BUPA appoints Mercer after tender process
UK- Global health and care firm BUPA has appointed William M Mercer as pension and benefits consultant to its pension scheme and adviser to the group's overall pension strategy, after a three-month tender process involving 10 consultancy firms.
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Health sector pension fund initiative by VKG-CPM
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
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
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
UK – William M. Mercer has been appointed as investment consultant for the £380m (€608m) combined Tioxide and Huntsman pension schemes.
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Swedish pension fund fills all executive posts
SWEDEN – The Second Swedish National Pension Fund AP2 has appointed Petter Odhnoff as chief investment officer (CIO) and Lennart Jonsson as head of communications
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Right time to amend MFR, says pension fund survey
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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Edge quits Royal London AM after just six months
UK - Chris Edge has resigned from the post of head of sales and marketing at Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) after just six months in the job, following a disagreement on business strategy with RLAM CEO Chris Phillips....
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USS picks Hendersons for £225m enhanced core brief
UK – The £22bn (e35bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has selected Henderson Global Investors to manage a £225 million portfolio of UK equities using the firm’s ‘enhanced core’ active investment management approach....
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Swiss funds slump in first half of 2001
SWITZERLAND – Swiss pension funds have recorded negative investment returns for the first six months of this year with a median return of –2.2%....
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Spain outlines need for pension reform
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.
