All articles by Jan Wagner – Page 36
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JP Morgan eyes profitable German mandates
GERMANY – The head of JP Morgan Fleming in Germany says that winning profitable mandates is the firm’s top priority.
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Allianz Global Investors wins SICK brief
GERMANY - Allianz Global Investors has won one of its first investment mandates for so-called working time accounts, from industrial firm SICK AG.
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German scheme signs up for Telekom bonds
GERMANY - At least one German pension fund has signed up to buy some of the E3bn in new bonds set to be sold by telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom, bank sources say.
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Germany’s Helaba says AUM set to grow by E5bn
GERMANY - Helaba Invest, a major German institutional fund provider, expects to raise its institutional assets under management by E5bn to E24bn by the end of 2005, its chief executive says.
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Germany: Union PanAgora names new CEO
GERMANY - Union PanAgora, an institutional fund venture between Germany’s Union Investment and PanAgora Asset Management of the US, has appointed Andreas Sauer as its new chief executive.
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German brokerage group BCA slams hedge funds
GERMANY - BCA, Germany’s largest pool of independent financial brokers, has sharply criticised hedge funds, saying the products are both too costly and have performed poorly over the past few years.
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BBC refuses comment on DeAM report
UK -- The BBC’s £6bn (€8.7bn) pension scheme has declined comment on a report that it has dumped Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) in the UK due to poor performance.
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Germany’s BVI sets fund transparency standards
GERMANY - Fund industry association BVI has teamed up with rating agencies to unveil new transparency standards pertaining to how the agencies evaluate the performance of investment funds and their managers.
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Metzler in German institutional asset boost
GERMANY - Citing robust investor demand for so-called “master funds,” Germany’s Metzler Asset Management says its institutional assets under management (AUM) have increased by almost one-third this year.
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US IT giant EDS to buy Germany’s BHW Invest
GERMANY -- BHW Invest, a German asset manager specialising in the so-called master fund concept, is to be sold to US information technology giant EDS.
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UBS GAM says it gets German pension boost
GERMANY - Citing strong demand for the management of German pension assets, UBS Global Asset Management says it has posted a “double-digit” rise in total assets under management in Germany this year.
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Activest revamps asset management activities
GERMANY - Activest has undertaken a revamp of its asset management activities, deciding to limit its competence to four main areas: asset allocation, absolute returns, disciplined equity and spread strategies with bonds.
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RCP sees E47bn demand for German hedge funds
GERMANY - Investor demand for German-domiciled hedge funds, which made their debut at the start of 2004, should grow to an average of 47 billion euros four years from now, according to a study by RCP & Partners.
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BVK using Alpha advisors for hedge mandates
GERMANY - German investment consultant Alpha Portfolio Advisors says it has been retained by Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK) for three fund of hedge fund mandates worth 100 million euros recently allocated by the scheme.
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Germany’s BVK seeks managers (Update)
(Updates to amend Alpha reference) GERMANY - Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), Germany’s largest pension fund with 30 billion euros in assets, plans to award up to 200 million euros worth of fixed income mandates over the next two years, IPE has learned.
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Benkner named head of DeAM in Europe
EUROPE - Deutsche Bank is to relocate Deutsche Asset Management’s headquarters to Frankfurt from London amid a revamp that has seen Paul Manduca replaced by Axel Benkner as DeAM’s European chief executive.
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Germany: F&C to offer SRI option next year
GERMANY – F&C aims to offer institutional clients a socially responsible investing option next year, according to Claus Heidrich, co-head of F&C’s German branch.
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KLP bales out of Marathon, Exxon over corruption
NORWAY – Norwegian life insurer Kommunal Landspensjonskasse, which provides funded public pension schemes for municipalities and regional authorities, says it will sell its shares in oil firms Marathon and Exxon.
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INTERVIEW: CSAM Germany on institutional targets
GERMANY - Credit Suisse Asset Management has set a goal of raising its current assets in the German institutional fund business by 30% by the end of 2006, its Germany chief says.
