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Portuguese pensions law in limbo after PM resigns
PORTUGAL – Yesterday’s shock resignation of Portuguese prime minister, Antonio Guterres, after local elections swept his Socialist party from power in the country’s main cities and towns, has left the fate of proposed new pensions laws up in the air....
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Parsons to head up EFG AM global marketing push
UK – EFG Asset Management, part of the global EFG banking group, has hired John Parsons, a former sales director for Barclays International Funds, to become its marketing director....
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Rothschild engineers £56m FKI bond brief
UK - Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) has been appointed by the trustees of the FKI Group Pension Scheme to manage the fund’s £56m bond exposure....
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Reuters report reveals fears over Myners review
UK – The potential introduction of single fee structures and an end to “soft commissions” is the hottest subject among fund managers thrown up by the Myners review of institutional investment, claims research undertaken by Reuters into the review’s impact on the fund management and financial industries....
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Callund scoops award for Russian pensions work
UK/RUSSIA - Callund Consulting has been named British Small Consultancy Firm of the Year in recognition of its work on pension reform in Russia.....
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Mercer lures Barclays' Lacey to communications job
UK - Rosie Lacey has joined consultants William M. Mercer as a senior communications consultant....
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Zurich grooms replacement for CFO Gose
Zurich Financial Services Group has promoted Thomas Buess, currently CFO Zurich North America, to become deputy chief financial officer with a view to replacing Gunter Gose as the group’s CFO on his retirement in mid 2002....
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IBN adds four consultancy firms to global network
GLOBAL - International Benefits Network (IBN) has added four new member firms to its roster....
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UK funds review managers in light of Unilever case
UK - Almost half of the pension funds surveyed by SEI Investments (47%) in the light of the Unilever/Merrill Lynch court case, settled out of court last week, say that they will review their investment management arrangements as a result....
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Mercer hires OPRA man as legal consultant
UK - Gary Crockford has been appointed as a senior legal consultant with William M. Mercer....
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Kottmann creates new Swiss consultancy
SWITZERLAND - Felix Kottmann, the former member of the executive committee at Swiss consultants Complementa, who left the firm earlier this year, has set up his own consultancy firm, Kottmann Advisory, with the aim of providing customized services to a selected group of international institutional and private clients in Switzerland....
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UK needs to slash pensions regulation, says SPC
UK – Substantial volumes of legislation will need to disappear if the simplification of UK pension schemes, currently under review by Alan Pickering for the UK government Department of Work and Pensions, is to be in any way successful, warns the Society of Pension Consultants (SPC).....
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Unilever/Merrill judge warns on cost of litigation
UK – The judge presiding over the Unilever/Merrill Lynch court case, which was settled out of court today, has warned city firms and commercial entities embarking on such high profile litigation to consider the consequences of putting such cases before the high court without full and proper mediation....
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Vanguard hires Dutch pension fund manager
BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS – Brussels-based Vanguard Investment Europe has made a sortie into the Dutch pensions market to recruit a new marketing executive with the hire of Olof Könst, a fund manager from Rijswijk-based metalworkers fund managers, MN Services....
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Julius Baer appoints new CFO
SWITZERLAND - Julius Baer has appointed Rolf W. Aeberli as chief financial officer (CFO) to the group’s executive board, with effect from March next year....
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Mercer signs up AXA institutional chief as partner
UK/EUROPE - Kathryn Matthews, the former global head of institutional business at AXA Investment Managers, has joined consultants William M. Mercer as a senior consultant and European Partner.....
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Rothschild wins out in £80m CWFS mandate
UK – Rothschild Asset Management (Rothschild) has beaten rival management groups, Hermes, Gerrard and Tilney, to win the mandate to run the £80m (€127.5m) investment portfolio of the Communication Workers Friendly Society (CWFS)....
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AP7 starts phase two of alternatives RFP
SWEDEN - The e2.3bn AP7 fund has received proposals from 135 managers for tenders worth around e180m in hedge fund and private equity assets and will today (December 4) begin sending out the second phase questionnaire for the RFP process to all the managers....
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Mercer opens second Austrian consulting office
AUSTRIA – Mercer HR Consulting, the Vienna based subsidiary of international consultancy group William M Mercer, has opened an office in Innsbruck in conjunction with its sister company Marsh Austria....
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European pension schemes join Burma action group
EUROPE - A group of European financial institutions including the £21bn (e33.5bn) UK Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and e48bn Dutch superfund PGGM have formed an action group to raise concerns about investment in Myanmar – formerly known as Burma....
