Advisers – Page 175
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Half of Europe's schemes hit by US tragedy
Almost 50% of European pensions funds say they have experienced a notable impact on their fund assets in the light of the terrorist attacks in the US last week and the subsequent fallout of global markets, according to a survey by IPE-Newsline...
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Mercer scores investment brief at rugby union fund
UK - William M. Mercer has been appointed as actuarial, administration and investment consultant for the £3 million Rugby Football Union defined benefit pension plan....
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Investment banks rally after US disaster
US SPECIAL - Investment banking groups, many of whom had offices within the World Trade Centre in New York, have released statements of sympathy to the relatives of colleagues still missing in the aftermath of yesterday’s horrific terrorist attack, as well as updates on the well being of their employees.....
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Internet pension solutions may be costly mistakes
Major electronic human resources (HR) investments and internet-based pensions solutions could become costly mistakes for firms without the in-house technical know-how to assess fully their benefits and drawbacks, according to consultants Watson Wyatt....
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Roberts is new COO at Jones Lang Lasalle
UK/US – Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) has appointed Peter Roberts as the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer....
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James Walker appoints Mercer as scheme actuary
UK – The £26m pension scheme of international industrial seals group James Walker has appointed William M. Mercer as actuary, administrator and investment consultant to the firm’s defined benefit plan....
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German consultant adapts to pension reforms
GERMANY – Cologne based independent consultancy firm, Büro Dr. Heubeck, Cologne, has, changed its German legal status, becoming HEUBECK AG, in a move it says will better allow it to meet the increasing “requirements and demands” of the German market, particularly the Riester pension reforms....
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Europe's top pension funds list '2001' published
EUROPE – The Norwegian State Oil Fund was Europe’s fastest growing pension fund among the continent’s top 20 schemes in the year from September 2000 to September 2001, according to figures compiled by Investment & Pensions Europe Magazine (IPE) in its annual 'Top 1,000' survey of European pension funds.
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UCW Pensions selects Rothschild for fund assets
UK – The £32m (e52m) UCW Pensions 2001 scheme, which provides pension benefits to sections of the employees and former employees of the Communication Workers Union, has selected Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) to manage a multi-asset mandate for its entire assets....
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Carsberg becomes new UK pensions ombudsman
UK – The UK government has announced the replacement of pensions ombudsman Julian Farrand with the appointment of Sir Bryan Carsberg as chairman of the Pensions Compensation Board (PCB) from September 1....
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Morley makes new corporate research hires
UK - Morley Fund Management has made two new appointments to its London-based corporate research team...
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Features
Unconvinced speak out
Talk to any investment professional about multi-manager and most have forthright opinions. However, such is the reach of the multi-manager approach- linking consultants, investment managers and pension funds- that few are willing to go on the record. In the UK, in particular, consultants still rule and are rightly considered the ...
