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Euro to have significant effect on property market
EUROPE – The introduction of the physical euro will have a significant symbolic impact on investor confidence in the European real estate market, suggests Lasalle Investment Management’s (Lasalle IM) latest ‘Investment Strategy Annual’ report....
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Handelsbanken wins SKr920m AstraZeneca bond brief
SWEDEN – Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca has appointed Handelsbanken to run a new Swedish fixed income portfolio within its SKr2.3bn (€243.3m) pension fund....
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MFS wins SFr50m CERN pensions mandate
SWITZERLAND/UK – The Centre Europeén pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) the Geneva based European nuclear research centre, has appointed London based MFS International to run a SFr50m (€33.9m) active European equity mandate within its pension fund....
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BFr8bn Flanders tender reaches second phase
BELGIUM – The selection process to appoint asset managers for the BFr8bn (€2bn) Flanders healthcare fund has entered its second phase, though no final announcement is expected before next spring, says Edwin De Boeck, managing director of KBC Asset Management in Brussels....
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Julius Baer appoints new CFO
SWITZERLAND - Julius Baer has appointed Rolf W. Aeberli as chief financial officer (CFO) to the group’s executive board, with effect from March next year....
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AMEX announces new fund of hedge funds
US/SWITZERLAND – American Express Bank (AEB) has launched its third fund of hedge funds, the global market neutral conservative fund of funds portfolio....
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Hermes poaches F&C's Mustoe for CIO role
UK – Pensions management company, Hermes, has appointed Nick Mustoe as chief investment officer (CIO) with effect from January 1, 2002.....
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Rothschild wins out in £80m CWFS mandate
UK – Rothschild Asset Management (Rothschild) has beaten rival management groups, Hermes, Gerrard and Tilney, to win the mandate to run the £80m (€127.5m) investment portfolio of the Communication Workers Friendly Society (CWFS)....
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AXA IM serves up new institutional pooled funds
UK - AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has launched a new institutional range of pooled pension funds....
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Petroleum fund issues huge $5-8bn fixed income RFP
NORWAY – The NOK547bn (e68bn) Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund has issued one of the world’s largest ever fixed-income RFPs for an expected 15 managers with the size of the mandates varying from $100m to $1bn....
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Nine managers win Petroleum fund equity mandates
NORWAY – The NOK547bn (e68bn) Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund (Petroleumsfondet) has appointed a raft of nine new managers to small and mid cap and sector driven equity mandates....
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Giant Italian fund selects new managers
ITALY – Fondo Pensione Complementare per la Famiglia (Fondo Famiglia), the Italian housewives’ and part time workers’ pension fund, which could potentially include as many as 15 million members, has made its final selection of managers to run its assets....
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Irish pensions association loses director
IRELAND – Des Crowther, director of the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF), has left the association to become chief executive of the Dublin-based Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management....
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UK pension funds still favour equities long term
UK – The flight out of equities into bonds by the £2.3bn (€3.7bn) Boots pension fund in October has not had an influence on other UK pension funds to follow suit, says Northern Trust (NT).
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Managers bullish on UK investment prospects
UK – The UK stock markets and economy are likely to continue to attract inward investment over the next 12 months, despite acceptance since September 11 of a worldwide recession, claims Stuart Fowler, head of UK equities at AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM)....
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Ashburton launches new euro sub fund
UK – Jersey based asset management company, Ashburton, has launched two new sub funds within its Isle of Man domiciled Ashburton Global Funds umbrella.
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Germany ripe for private equity growth
GERMANY – The hitherto disappointing German private equity market is entering a transition phase that will lead to a more sustainable and attractive investment environment, despite a slowdown in the growth of private equity assets last year, says a report by AltAssets, the alternative investments research company....
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SEI cleans up with £55m Davis Service mandate
UK – Multi-manager outfit, SEI Investments, has won a £55m (€88m) global equity mandate from the Davis Service Group (DSG) Retirement Benefit Scheme, SEI’s fifth mandate win this year....
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New European fixed income manager launches
UK/JAPAN – BlueBay, a new European fixed income specialist asset management company has been launched today, with a hedge fund scheduled for launch as its first product early next year....
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Instinet adds European credit product trading
EUROPE – Electronic brokerage agency, Instinet, is expanding its fixed income electronic trading capabilities to include credit products in Europe, in a bid to reflect the rise in issuance and trading in euro denominated products over the past two years.....
