Advisers – Page 187
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Swiss Life scoops balanced briefs
UK – Swiss Life Asset Management UK has been appointed to three balanced mixed fund mandates worth £12.4m (e19.4m) in total.
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Allianz's All Net brings in Heiligers
All Net, the international employee benefit network of Germany’s Allianz Group has appointed Rob Heiligers as regional director for UK, Ireland and France...
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Worcestershire outsources to Mercer
UK - The £830m (e1.3bn) Worcestershire County Council Pension Fund has appointed William M Mercer as its actuarial consultant...
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FOX may run free this summer
FINLAND – The Finnish Traded Stock Index (FOX) is to tighten its stock weighting rules and is also likely to adopt free float as its basis for overall calculation by August 1, 2001.
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Pecoma launches pooled pension plan
LUXEMBOURG - Pensions consultant Pecoma International is to launch a new pooled retirement vehicle ‘Luxpension’ this spring for small and medium sized enterprises...
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Irish Pensions Board "customers" happy
IRELAND – Survey finds most of public never heard of board
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Swedish kommun takes on foreign equity managers
Sweden - The SEK100m Swedish kommun of Partille has selected Carlson Investment Management and Länsförsäkringar Wasa to Swedish balanced mandates of SEK40m each and pulled in overseas managers Fidelity and Indocam to manage SEK10m apiece in global equity funds.
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Calor cuts off P&D and Merrill
UK - The UK retirement benefits fund for gas group Calor has dropped Phillips & Drew and Merrill Lynch from a pair of £140m balanced mandates
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German employees to lead the way
GERMANY - German workers may be able to force employers to implement hybrid DB/DC second pillar pension plans under forthcoming German pensions legislation
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Spanish government postpones outsourcing deadline
SPAIN - The deadline for outsourcing of pension commitments by Spanish companies has been put back by two years due to low levels of compliance
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Consultant covets multi-manager business
UK - Consulting actuary and pension administrator Punter Southall is to merge with South Africa’s Gensec International Asset Management in a bid to enter the multi manager market..
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Myners spells out end of MFR
UK - As expected Paul Myners, the chief executive of Gartmore, has recommended in his interim report on the UK pension fund industry that the minimum funding requirement be scrapped as a safeguard for pension funds.
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FCPE shift
FRANCE - The marked shift into shares within France’s FCPE (Fonds Communs de Placement D’Entreprise) individual company savings plans, is under scrutiny following recent dips in the equity markets, according to Richard Deville, managing director of Watson Wyatt in Paris.
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APAM adjusts European focus
EUROPE - Allianz PIMCO Asset Management (APAM) is reshaping its European investment management business in a move it says will introduce best practice and avoid marketing conflicts across the continent.
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Diageo decides on custodian
UK - The UK-based Diageo Pension Scheme has re-appointed The Bank of New York (BNY) to act as global custodian for its fund, valued at £3.6bn (e6bn)
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Cornwall splits global mandate
UK - The £600m (e990m) Cornwall County Council Superannuation Fund has split a Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) global balanced mandate into two, following a review in conjunction with consultants Hymans Robertson.
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New manager system launched
SWITZERLAND - Felix Kottman, executive vice president of St Gallen based Swiss consultants Complementa, has launched managerselection.com - a new internet based data platform for pension funds, consultants and asset management companies.
