Markets – Page 275
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Julius Baer to open Stockholm office
SWEDEN – Julius Baer Group is to open its first office in the Nordic countries in the middle of the year...
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Spain's third pillar funds shaky for 2000
SPAIN - individual pension plans slumped to negative performance figures for 2000, according to Inverco – the Spanish pension funds association...
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AP2 appoints raft of managers to SEK130bn fund
SWEDEN - The SEK130bn (e14.6bn) Gothenburg based AP fonden 2 has appointed six new asset managers and a global custodian...
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Singer & Friedlander scoops European equity briefs
UK – Singer & Friedlander Investment Management (SFIM) has picked up continental European large cap equity mandates worth around £45m (e71m)...
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Finnish FSA reappoints Jännäri for six years
Kaarlo Jännäri has been reappointed for a further six years as head of the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (RATA).....Read on for this weeks major people moves in the European pensions and investment industry...
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Nederlof to lead Deutsche global pensions team
Maarten Nederlof has joined Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) as managing director and global head of pension strategies...
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FIS comes clean with new SRI fund
UK - Friends Ivory & Sime has teamed up with Christian Aid, Oxfam and the Pensions Trust in the development of a new SRI fund...
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Gardener goes global at Mercer
Gardener promotion.. plus this weeks round-up of all the major industry personnel moves...
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OM adjusts industrial indices
SWEDEN – The OM Stockholm Exchange has changed its industry classification in a bid to iron out discrepancies due to the weighting of telephone giant Ericsson...
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Petroleum fund puts US$3.5bn up for grabs
NORWAY - Norway’s government petroleum fund is seeking proposals from managers for specialist mandates, that might be worth up to US$3.5m in total
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EDF charges up PIMCO and AGF
Paris based Eléctricité de France (EDF) – the French electricity provider - has selected Pimco Global Advisers and AGF Asset Management – both under the new Allianz PIMCO Asset Management grouping - to jointly run a significant global bond mandate worth tens of millions of euros.
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Russell pushes $600m PIMCO's way
UK - Frank Russell has selected PIMCO Global Advisors to manage a further $600m (e674m) portion of its global bond fund range within the group’s multi-manager investment structure
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Ireland puts away IR£6bn for the future
IRELAND - The green light has been given to Ireland's National Pension Reserve Fund, which should see upwards of IR£6bn pumped into its coffers by the year end. RFPs for external mandates could be requested as early as February.....
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Calor cuts off P&D and Merrill
UK - The UK retirement benefits fund for gas group Calor has dropped Phillips & Drew and Merrill Lynch from a pair of £140m balanced mandates
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Baring gets Boosey money
The £21mUK Boosey & Hawkes pension scheme has handed a £10m fixed-income mandate to Baring Asset Management
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FCPE shift
FRANCE - The marked shift into shares within France’s FCPE (Fonds Communs de Placement D’Entreprise) individual company savings plans, is under scrutiny following recent dips in the equity markets, according to Richard Deville, managing director of Watson Wyatt in Paris.
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Settlements across borders
EUROPE - SIS SegaInterSettle, the Swiss settlement system, and its UK partner, CRESTCo, have started co-operation to offer cross-border securities settlement in pan-European exchange trading.
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Cornwall splits global mandate
UK - The £600m (e990m) Cornwall County Council Superannuation Fund has split a Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) global balanced mandate into two, following a review in conjunction with consultants Hymans Robertson.
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AP funds in competition
SWEDEN - Management of Sweden’s pay as you go pension system is undergoing a major restructuring due to finish by the beginning of next year.
