GERMANY- Carsten Eckert, chief executive of Pension Consult, the consulting arm of HypoVereinsbank, is to leave his job in July.

Munich-based Pension Consult, which advises the German chemical industry’s sector-wide supplementary pension fund, Chemie Pensionsfonds, said Eckert himself had decided to leave.

Eckert headed HVB’s pensions arm since 1998 and is on the board at Chemie Pensionsfonds and HVB Pensionsfonds. A regular on the conference circuit, he is due to speak on the topic of the German pensions market at Fund Forum in Monaco on July 8, according to the conference programme.

Thomas Kick, who has been employed at Pension Consult since mid-May, has been appointed to take his place. Eckert is to leave on July 1. Eckert was not immediately available for comment.

HVB is a German private bank and a European real estate financer. HVB Group is a private sector bank in Germany, and, through Bank Austria Creditanstalt, a private banking company Austria. It operates over 2,100 branch offices and provides services for more than 8.5 million customers.

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