All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 35
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Russell targets Norway with multi-manager tie up
NORWAY – Frank Russell Company has teamed up with DnB Investor – the mutual fund arm of Den Norske Bank, to launch its multi manager product into the Norwegian market next month....
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Henderson wins Dutch fund's e100m property brief
NETHERLANDS – Mn Services, the independent pension fund management group, which runs the assets of the NLG40bn (e18bn) pension fund Dutch metalworking, pipe, mechanical and automotive trades (BPMT), has appointed Henderson Global Investors to manage an e100m Asian real-estate securities portfolio....
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Record year for Watson Wyatt 'Partner' promotions
UK – Consultant Watson Wyatt, has promoted four associates to become partners in the firm's Investment Consulting Practice, bringing to 23 the number of new Watson Wyatt partners in 2001 - the largest number of such appointments the firm has made in a single year....
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ABP launches DC top-up
Europe’s largest pension fund, the e150bn ABP scheme for Dutch civil servants, is to introduce a defined contribution (DC) type, top-up arrangement for employees on June 1, taking advantage of a change in the Dutch tax regime that occurred at the start of this year. From January 1, the Dutch ...
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Read to Fidelity institutional communications role
UK – Fidelity Investments has appointed Anne Read as associate director with specific responsibility for institutional business within the group's Corporate Communications Department....
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Mercer retains consultancy brief of £20bn USS fund
UK – Consultant William M. Mercer has beaten off competition from Watson Wyatt and Hymans Robertson to retain the mandate for actuarial and investment consultancy to the Liverpool based £20bn (e32bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)...
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BankInvest's Broby takes AIMR international role
DENMARK – Daniel Broby, chief investment officer at Danish financial services group BankInvest, has been elected as the international presidents council representative of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR)....
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Goldman aims multi-manager hedge fund at schemes
UK/EUROPE – Goldman Sachs is to launch a multi-manager market independent hedge fund aimed primarily at pension funds and insurance companies, particularly in the UK and continental Europe....
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Cross-border pension investment passes $2trn mark
Cross-border investment of pension assets has exceeded $2trn (e2.24trn), or 16% of world pension assets, says research consultant InterSec in its latest annual Study of Global Pension Assets....
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Global pension assets could rise to $18trn by 2005
Global pension assets, which at the end of 2000 represented more than $12.2trn (e13.4trn) are forecast to grow to more than $18trn by 2005, according to figures from research corporation InterSec....
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Few Europeans in US international mandate awards
US/EUROPE – Only two of the top ten managers in international cross-border mandate wins from US tax-exempt pension plans last year were European, with both houses UK based, according to Deutsche Bank owned research group InterSec....
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Rapporteur disappointed by EC tax approach
EUROPE - Ieke van den Burg, the European Parliament rapporteur for the taxation element of the European directive on occupational pensions, has expressed her disappointment at the European Commission’s lightweight approach to persuading Member States to adopt tax harmonisation for pensions on the EET (exempt, exempt, taxed) basis....
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Scherkampf leaves Siemens Financial Services post
GERMANY - Peter Scherkampf, the respected managing director of Munich based Siemens Financial Services Investment Management (SKAG) leaves his current position today (April 26)….
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PGGM leading strategist retires
NETHERLANDS – Marinus Keijzer, an adviser to the director of investments at Zeist based NLG110bn (e50bn) Dutch superfund PGGM is to take early retirement from the scheme....
