All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 53
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Fidelity setting up multi-manager business
UK – Fidelity Investments is setting up a multi-manager business that will eventually offer manager of managers services.
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Schroders seeking to boost European brand
EUROPE – Schroders is seeking an individual to help it to boost its brand in Europe.
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Grontmij awards LDI bond brief to PIMCO
NETHERLANDS - PIMCO says it has been awarded a more than €300m liability driven bond brief by Grontmij Pensioenfonds.
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EFAMA names UK’s Trenchard as director general
EUROPE – European investment fund association EFAMA has named the UK’s Viscount Hugh Trenchard as its new director general.
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Purchase boosts Morningstar investment consulting
US – Investment research firm Morningstar says its $83m (€69.6m) cash acquisition of asset allocation firm Ibbotson will boost its investment consulting business.
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UK schemes buying linkers at any price - BOE
UK – The Bank of England says UK pension funds are buying index-linked gilts at virtually any price – caught in a vicious circle of falling yields and falling funding ratios.
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ABN Amro Mellon takes on 22 F&C staff
NETHERLANDS – Custody provider ABN Amro Mellon Global Securities Services is taking on 22 staff from F&C as part of a Dutch outsourcing deal.
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ABP joins Enhanced Analytics Initiative
NETHERLANDS - The €187bn Dutch civil service pension fund Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP has joined the Enhanced Analytics Initiative as a full member.
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Dutch doctors tap WM for measurement
NETHERLANDS - Doctors Pension Funds Services, which runs a combined €11.7bn for the two Dutch doctors’ schemes, has awarded a performance measurement brief to State Street’s WM arm.
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CalSTRS in $3bn emerging market move
GLOBAL – California teaching pension fund CalSTRS has picked five asset managers to run around $3bn (€2.5bn) of emerging markets assets.
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Ilmarinen’s Puhakka to join OKO Pohjola AM
FINLAND – Jari Puhakka, head of securities at Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Co., has left to join the new OKO-Pohjola Asset Management Co.
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UK coal trustees searching for new CEO
UK - The UK's £20bn coal industry pension funds have hired a recruiting firm to find a replacement for Coal Pension Trustees' chief executive David Morgan, who will retire in 2008.
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Poland approves Nordea pension purchase
POLAND – The Polish authorities have approved Nordea’s previously announced acquisition of Sampo’s Polish life and pensions businesses.
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UK gas workers’ pension strike “solid”
UK – A strike by gas engineers over plans to close their final salary pensions scheme has had a “solid” response, according to the GMB union.
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NAPF teams up on Blue Book directory
UK – The National Association of Pension Funds has teamed up with publisher AP Information Services on the “Blue Book” directory of UK pension funds.
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Former Watson Europe head Whalley leaves
GLOBAL – Alan Whalley, the former European managing partner at Watson Wyatt LLP who went on to a senior post at Watson Wyatt & Co. in the US, has left the firm unexpectedly.
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Fortis loses out to KAS at De Eendragt scheme
NETHERLANDS – Stichting Pensioenfonds De Eendragt, the €800m Dutch paper and graphics industry scheme, has chosen KAS Bank as its custodian.
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FRR to hold private equity informational meeting
FRANCE – The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund, is to hold a meeting for asset managers later this month about its private equity RFP.
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New UK DB funding rules go to MPs
UK - New funding regulations for defined benefit pension schemes have gone to Parliament, the Pensions Regulator says.
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IPE-QUEST: European bank seeks Japan advisor
EUROPE – A European bank has tendered for a Japanese equities advisor via IPE-Quest.
