All IPE articles in September 2006 (Online) – Page 8
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Man Group CEO Fink to step down
UK – Stanley Fink is to step down as chief executive of Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund group, and be replaced by finance director Peter Clarke as from April 1 next year.
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KAS positions for pension pooling, directive
EUROPE – KAS Bank says it is well positioned for the burgeoning European asset pooling and pensions market.
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S&P pension director MacLachlan joins Watson
UK – Watson Wyatt has hired Standard & Poor’s director of pension services Jim MacLachlan as a senior investment consultant.
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BAE may use Airbus cash for pensions
EUROPE – UK aerospace group BAE Systems may use some of the approximately £1.2bn (€1.7bn) proceeds from the sale of its 20% stake in airbus for pensions.
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Sweden’s PPM appoints S&P, Wassum
SWEDEN – The Swedish Premium Pensions Authority (PPM), facing criticism for its fund selection tool “Lotsen” earlier this month, has appointed rating firms S&P Fund Services and Wassum Rating AB.
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Van Lanschot targets institutions with Kempen bid
NETHERLANDS – Dutch private bank Van Lanschot is looking to increase its institutional reach with a €300m takeover bid for independent Dutch merchant bank Kempen.
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CEE: Exceptional growth
CENTRAL EUROPE - Central and Eastern Europe's second-pillar pension funds recorded exceptional year-on-year growth in 2005, well ahead of the rise in numbers of clients, despite their relatively conservative investment strategies. There have also been relatively few changes in the rankings compared with 2004. There were no changes in the ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
