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Irish e6.5bn fund tenders for custodian
IRELAND – Consultant Bacon & Woodrow has been appointed to advise the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) on the selection of a global custodian for the e6.5bn National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF)....
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UK consultant appoints four new partners
UK – Rachel Evans has been promoted as a partner at Amersham based actuary and consultancy Barnett Waddingham, the first non-actuary partner in the company.
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France's FIXAGE boosts consultancy team
FRANCE – Paris based actuarial consultant FIXAGE has boosted its épargne salariale and social protection division with the appointment of two new senior consultants from the French investment and insurance arena....
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Luxembourg multi-manager fund targets institutions
LUXEMBOURG – Premium Select Lux, the Luxembourg based multi-manager outfit, has unveiled a new multi-manager fund family for institutional and high net worth individuals....
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NAPF chairman exits with European challenge
UK/EUROPE – UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) outgoing chairman Alan Pickering has called for European pension systems to be based on four cornerstones – diversity, inclusiveness, simplicity and stability - in his opening address at today’s (May 17) NAPF Annual Conference in Birmingham....
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New Italian government to open up pensions market
ITALY – Competition and freedom of choice between open and closed pension funds could be established in Italy with the election of Silvio Berlusconi’s right wing/centre coalition government, according to prominent Italian consultant Piero Marchettini at Adelaide Consulting in Milan....
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Chiswell gets a good start to pensions' field
UK – The £34m (e56m) industry-wide Chartered Accountants’ Employees Superannuation Scheme has appointed Chiswell Associates to manage the fund...
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Piermay elected chair of Euracs consultant network
EUROPE – Dominique Piermay has been appointed to succeed Nico Top as chairman of European Actuarial Consultancy Services (Euracs), the largest European association of independent consulting actuaries...
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Watson poaches partner from Lane Clark & Peacock
UK - Richard Abramson is joining Watson Wyatt’s London based benefits practice as a senior consultant, leaving his current partner role at consultant Lane Clark & Peacock...
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Sweden's AP7 looks at alternatives
SWEDEN - The SEK14bn (e1.55bn) national PPM default fund Sjunde AP-fonden (AP7) is currently considering whether it can invest in alternative asset classes under the country’s PPM legislation, according to Peter Norman, managing director at AP7....
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Fund managers berate lack of broker focus
EUROPE – Fund managers have voiced their strongest concern yet over the role of analysts in investment banking work, with some 86% saying they felt that analysts’ involvement in corporate work diluted their institutional focus, according to this year’s Reuters Survey of European Smaller Companies....
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Specialist mandate boom in UK but not Europe
UK/EUROPE – UK pension funds have increased the number of specialist investment mandates they use by a significant 31% over the last two years, although figures in Continental Europe have yet to follow suit with only a three per cent rise over the same period...
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BGI Europe's biggest as passive trend rolls on
EUROPE – Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has retained the top slot as Europe’s largest pensions asset manager, recording annual growth of $8bn in assets from $107bn to just over $115bn, according to consultant William M.Mercer’s figures for 2000-2001....
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Watson Wyatt hires specialist manager researchers
Consultant Watson Wyatt has pulled two investment managers on board as specialist manager researchers to the fund manager research team of its investment consulting practice, in a sign that pension funds are adopting increasingly complex investment structures....
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Deutsche Börse ETFs cover 70% of European market
GERMANY – Deutsche Börse’s exchange-traded funds (ETF) now cover almost three quarters (70%) of the European trade in the relatively new investment vehicles....
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87% rise in UK pensions allocation to venture
UK – Investment by UK pension funds in venture capital rocketed by 87% over the year 2000 to reach a level of £817m, according to the British Venture Capital Association’s (BVCA) annual investment activity report....
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Ebenston takes top Citibank asset manager slot
UK - Susan Ebenston has been appointed to the newly created position of global head of insurance and asset managers at Citibank Worldwide Securities Services...
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Dutch Origin fund in huge investment restructure
NETHERLANDS – The e400m Utrecht based pension fund of Dutch communications group Origin - the former IT subsidiary of electronics group Phillips - has undergone a mammoth investment restructuring, almost halving its exposure to Phillips owned asset manager Schootse Poort in favour of a range of specialist mandates....
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Ir£5bn reserve fund appoints Mercer for strategy
IRELAND - The newly created Ir£5bn (e6.35bn) National Pensions Reserve Fund, the war chest the government hopes will plug the future hole in its social welfare and civil service pension payments, has appointed consultant William M. Mercer to outline the fund’s future investment strategy....
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Watson Wyatt consolidates for cross-border market
EUROPE – Consultant Watson Wyatt is seeking to strengthen its European consulting activities for multinationals by integrating its international practice more closely with its general consultancy practices, a move it says reflects the fact that companies are increasingly looking to operate on a global basis.....
