All IPE articles in September 2006 (Online) – Page 2
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Morgan Stanley names European pensions head
EUROPE – Morgan Stanley has confirmed it’s hired PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Neville McKay as the new head of its European Pensions Group.
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Cordares confirms Italian plans
EUROPE – Dutch industry-wide pensions provider Cordares is expanding into the increasingly attractive Italian pensions market, the company confirmed today.
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Credit Suisse replaces Swiss asset head
SWITZERLAND – Credit Suisse has named Peter Schmuki as its new head of asset management in Switzerland, taking over from Mario Seris.
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Watson Wyatt says it’s limited in Europe
EUROPE – Watson Wyatt Worldwide says it will be limited in the way it operates its new European subsidiary until the middle of next year.
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“Vast weight” of institutional real estate cash
UK – There’s a “vast weight” of institutional cash chasing commercial real estate in the UK, according to warehouse property firm Brixton.
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Mercer names Italy investment head
ITALY – Nicola Carcano has been named as head of Mercer Investment Consulting in Italy, based in Milan.
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CSAM names European pensions group MD
EUROPE - Credit Suisse Asset Management has appointed Paul Bourdon as managing director of its newly created European Pension Solutions Group.
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ABP Investments names research head
NETHERLANDS – Robeco’s Ronald Wuijsters has been appointed as the new head of research at ABP Investments Pensioenfonds, the fund confirmed today.
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Global fund management asset growth slows
GLOBAL – Total assets managed by the world’s largest 500 fund managers grew to $53.6trn (€41.8trn) in 2005, consulting firm Watson Wyatt reports.
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Dexia AM adds €6.5bn in institutional assets
EUROPE – Dexia Asset Management gained a net €6.5bn in new institutional assets in the second quarter of 2006.
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Polish pension supervisor KNUiFE to be dissolved (amended)
POLAND – Polish pension supervisor KNUiFE is to be dissolved under a disputed law which will see the three financial supervisory authorities merged into one.
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Dutch pensions get pre-election respite
NETHERLANDS – Dutch politicians appear to be giving the pensions industry the respite from imposing further legislation that it had asked for said Benne van Popta, chairman of the industry-wide pension association VB.
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Norwegian fishermen name fund managers
NORWAY – The NOK630m (€70.6m) Garantikassen for Fiskere pension fund has appointed DnB NOR Kapitalforvaltning ASA and ABN Amro Kapitalforvaltning as its new asset managers.
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New director at Campina Pensioenfonds
NETHERLANDS – Campina’s corporate affairs director Jos Clerx has been named director of the €1bn Stichting Pensioenfonds Campina.
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F&C nabs MSIM exec for new Geneva office
SWITZERLAND - F&C Asset Management has named Christian Zeitler as country head for Switzerland and Austria.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss foundation tenders real estate
REAL ESTATE – A Swiss investment foundation has tendered $100m+ (€78m) in global passively managed publicly traded real estate via IPE-Quest.
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TOP 1000: European assets grow to €3.02trn
EUROPE - Assets under management of the top 750 continental European pension funds, including those in Ireland and Iceland, and the top 250 in the UK, rose to €3.02trn in 2005 from the previous year's €2.63trn.
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Germany: Book reserves still common
GERMANY - Although there are five different ways of creating an occupational pension the most common, with more than 50% of all pension assets and totalling around €400bn, is still through the book reserves of the employer, according to Klaus Stiefermann, general manager of the Association of Company Pension Schemes ...
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UK: General trend into bonds
UK - Recent years have seen a general trend within the UK pensions industry from equities into bonds, according to Joanne Segars, incoming chief executive at the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).
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Netherlands: Interesting times
NETHERLANDS - There's an old Chinese curse that says 'may you live in interesting times'. It might have been coined for the Dutch pensions industry. "All times are interesting, especially for Dutch pension funds," says Jeroen Steenvoorden, director of pension fund for self-employed medical specialists SPMS. "There is so much ...
