All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 26
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Dresdner poaches new global equities head
UK – Dresdner RCM Global Investors has lured Lucy Watson away from Baring Asset Management to become director and head of global equities in London....
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Sanghvi joins Attica to oversee Europe operations
UK/EUROPE - Bina Sanghvi will join Attica Asset Management as a director with responsibility for finance and compliance and for overseeing the firm’s fund structures and European operations from September 3....
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Punter Southall takes on HSBC banker as Principal
UK – Actuarial consultant Punter Southall has brought in John Howard-Smith, a former senior director at HSBC Investment Management to become a principal in the firm’s London office....
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Fund managers bullish on global economic outlook
EUROPE/GLOBAL – Fund managers are becoming increasingly bullish about the prospects for the global economy, but would like to see an easing of European monetary policy, according to the latest Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey, released today (Aug 14)....
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UK based fund manager wins $200m Ohio PERS brief
UK/US – The UK fund management arm of Australia’s Colonial First State Investments has been selected by the tenth largest public pension fund in the US, the $57bn (e63bn) Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (Ohio PERS), to manage a new $200m global emerging markets portfolio.....
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Sweden shoud add e50bn to AP funds, says union
SWEDEN – The Swedish government should take advantage of its current budget surplus to safeguard the future of public pensions and healthcare provision by injecting up to e50bn into the country’s AP funds over the next ten to fifteen years, according to LO, Sweden’s largest public and private sector union..... ...
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Style labels may 'mislead' clients, says Barra
Style labels attached to fund management houses may be misleading clients by not appropriately differentiating between manager types, nor correctly assessing their performance, according to research in the US by strategic consultancy group Barra....
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Montgomery Oppenheimer is Irish top performer
IRELAND – Irish employee benefits and investments firm, Coyle Hamilton, has published the results of its group pension managed funds survey for the second quarter of 2001 with Montgomery Oppenheimer taking top slot on a five-year basis - returning an annualised 20.6%....
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Pioneer leads performance for Polish pension funds
POLAND - Pioneer has come out as the leading pension fund company in the fledgling Polish pensions system, posting the highest returns over two years to July this year of 29.554%....
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Harwood-Jones to head Cogent's European marketing
EUROPE – Cogent, the international investment operations business of AMP, has appointed Margaret Harwood-Jones to its European Executive Team as director of client services & marketing. ....
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Polish and Lithuanian exchanges pool resources
POLAND/LITHUANIA – The Warsaw Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of Lithuania have signed a memorandum of co-operation that will involve the sharing of information, experience and technology....
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PGGM fires up debate on Dutch Z-score system
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the Zeist based NLG110bn (e50bn) Dutch superfund has publicly criticised aspects of the country’s Z-score system that tests the performance of industry-wide pension schemes, claiming that at worst it could lead to the disappearance of industry plans in Holland within thirty years.....
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Luxembourg amends international pension funds law
LUXEMBOURG – The Luxembourg supervisory authorities have made a series of amendments to 1999’s pension fund law that introduced the ASSEP and SEPCAV vehicles to the Duchy in a bid to promote the country as an international pension fund centre.....
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European hedge fund investment to rise by 500%
EUROPE/HEDGE FUNDS - European investment in hedge funds is expected to grow by around 500% in the coming years, with pension funds and insurance companies representing over three quarters of the new users of the asset class, according to research published today (August 9) by asset management research firm ...
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Dutch to change law on M&A pension rights
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch parliament looks set to ratify European legislation on pension transfer rights in the event of company mergers and acquisitions (M&A) next month, following a favourable decision by the country’s second and most powerful legislative chamber.....
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Hermes lands £220m passive brief from Croydon
UK – The £400m (e645m) London Borough of Croydon pension fund has chosen Hermes Investment Management to run a £220 million FTSE 100 indexed portfolio following a head to head with two other investment management firms....
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Settelmeyer leads Russell/Mellon in Europe
UK/EUROPE - Russell/Mellon Analytical Services has appointed Fred Settelmeyer as managing director for Europe, Middle East, and Africa......
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Law firm creates pensions dispute forum
UK – Law firm Linklaters' Pensions Litigation Group has launched a unique Internal Dispute Resolution (IDR) training initiative, to provide practical advice to clients on IDR....
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UK pensions policy risks 'unravelling', says IPPR
UK - The government’s current pensions policy is at risk of unravelling, according to a report launched today (Aug 8) by IPPR, a leading UK centre-left think tank....
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Pension funds in decline says Dutch regulator
NETHERLANDS – The total number of registered pension funds in Holland declined in 2000 to 986 from 1,014 in 1999, according to figures released in its annual report by the Dutch supervisory body Pensions & Verzekeringskamer (PVK)....
