All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 25
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Royal Trust wins huge $33bn custody mandate
Royal Trust Global Securities Services (GSS) has been awarded a huge $33bn (e36bn) global custody mandate by the Caymen Islands based triple A-rated specialist finance company, Sigma Finance Corporation.....
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Dutch fund head to chair Swiss private equity firm
NETHERLANDS/SWITZERLAND – Marinus Keijzer, chief investment officer of the Zeist based Emeritaatsfonds GKN pension fund and for 10 years a well known figure at Dutch superfund PGGM, is one of five new proposed board members of Swiss private equity firm 5e Holding....
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Slater to head up Attica multi-manager marketing
UK – Attica Asset Management has appointed Nick Slater as its director of marketing and client service with responsibility for consultant relationships and marketing to clients of the group’s multi-manager division....
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Irish trustees get euro transition guide
IRELAND – The Dublin based Irish Pensions Board (An Bord Pinsean) has published a range of guidance leaflets to aid pension fund trustees for the transition to the euro currency next year....
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Portuguese pension returns stay positive
PORTUGAL – Portuguese pension funds narrowly remained in positive territory for the second quarter of 2001 with the median return coming out at 0.3%, according to figures produced by consultant Watson Wyatt....
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Hedge fund boom bears classic 'bubble' hallmarks
UK – Consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has published a stinging criticism of the current trend for pension fund investment in hedge funds, an investment ‘boom’ that it says bears some of the hallmarks of a classic bubble.....
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Online research group opens German office
EUROPE - FactSet Research Systems, the online provider of financial and economic information to the investment banking and investment management communities, has opened its first continental European office in Frankfurt, Germany....
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FIS makes UK management changes
UK - Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS) has announced two new senior UK management changes, with Peter Arthur becoming managing director for the group’s retail and institutional business and Barry Sanjana, chief investment officer (CIO), joining the board as an Executive Director....
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Hoble to Mercer as UK human resources head
UK/EUROPE – William M. Mercer has appointed Mark Hoble to become its UK head of human resource operations and made him a European partner, following his departure from Ernst & Young, where he was head of HR consulting....
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MAN launches new hedge fund
Alternative investment firm MAN has launched its fourth hedge product in the Man-IP 220 Plus series....
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First guide to SEK110bn pensions bodies published
SWEDEN - The first ever comprehensive directory of Sweden’s pensionsstiftelser, the bodies that guarantee pension promises amounting to a significant pool of assets - around SEK 110 bn (e11.7bn) according to estimates, is to be published at the end of August....
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Royal London could enter UK DC market by year end
UK – Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) says it could enter the UK defined contribution (DC) pensions market by the end of the year, leveraging on the dc solutions platform it acquired with the buy-out of Scottish Life in October last year....
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Sweden's AP2 fund loses SEK4bn this year
SWEDEN – The SEK132bn (e14bn) AP2 fund has posted investment returns of –2.7% for the first six months of this year, losing SEK4bn of the SEK134bn for which it acquired responsibility at the start of 2001 - a figure offset slightly by a net inflow of liquid funds valued at ...
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Consultants say 50% of UK assets should go abroad
UK – Pension consultants are increasingly pushing UK pension funds into choosing more globally oriented investment managers with seven out of ten saying they believe as much as 50% of a UK scheme’s portfolio should be invested overseas, according to a survey by Dresdner RCM Global Investors....
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Northern Trust wins SFr447m BAT Swiss fund mandate
SWITZERLAND - Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has been awarded the mandate to manage the entire assets of the SFr447m ($270m) British American Tobacco (BAT) Swiss pension fund through its multi-manager structure....
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Mercer to buy SCA Consulting
Consultant William Mercer has announced an agreement in principle to acquire SCA Consulting - specialists in value management, performance measurement, and compensation consulting services.....
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Standard & Poors extends European fund ratings
EUROPE – Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has assigned two new ratings to funds run by Fortis Investment Management and reconfirmed three ratings of funds from CDC IXIS Asset Management, as part of an expanded European fund rating programme.
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Henderson and Merrill good for Environment Agency
UK – The UK Environment Agency has dropped Schroder Investment Management from a £430m mandate and in its place hired Henderson Global Investors to manage a £330m balanced mandate and boosted an existing Merrill Lynch brief by a further £100m...
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DC scheme members in for a shortfall shock
Members of defined contribution (DC) pension plans could face a shock over the level of their benefits on retirement - receiving less than half their expected amount in some cases, as a result of falling investment returns, lower annuity rates and increased life expectancy....
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Irish e6bn RFP receives 600 replies from managers
IRELAND – The Irish National Treasury Management Agency, the investment management supervisory body for the country’s e7bn National Pensions Reserve Fund, says it has received around 600 expressions of interest for the huge raft of mandates totalling e6bn in assets that it put out to tender last month.....
