All articles by Meagan Rees – Page 16
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Alliance Bernstein taps Nagel for Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS – Ronald Nagel, former head of institutional business at Vanguard, has been appointed head of Benelux institutions at Alliance Bernstein’s new sales office in the Netherlands.
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Milk scheme axes MLIM
UK – The roughly £300m (€438m) Milk Pension Fund has fired Merrill Lynch Investment Managers from a £136m global fixed income mandate – awarding the brief to AXA Investment Managers instead.
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Commodities the new hedge funds - Credit Suisse
UK – Commodities could become more popular than hedge funds among institutional investors, according to Credit Suisse.
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Dutch funds lack professionalism – Snijders
SWITZERLAND - While Dutch pension funds have seen an improvement in corporate governance in recent years, there is still too little professionalism, according to former Philips pension fund chief executive Dick Snijders.
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Norway fund may expand derivatives operations
NORWAY – The NOK1.2trn (€147bn) Government Pension Fund – Global may be expanding its derivatives operations.
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Belgium’s Amonis returns 18%
BELGIUM – The €950m Amonis pension fund for dentists, doctors and pharmacists in Belgium has reported an 18.74% net investment return for 2005.
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Hewitt nabs ex-HACL’s Riddaway
UK – Former HSBC Actuaries and Consultants (HACL) investment strategy head Bobby Riddaway, has been appointed client consultant at Hewitt Associates.
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Aegon expands pensions network in Germany
GERMANY – HDI Pensionsmanagement - a member company of German insurance giant the Talanx Group - has joined the specialised international group pension network, Aegon Pension Network.
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ABN Amro AM names investment strategy head
UK – Former World Bank and IMF consultant Richard Duncan has been promoted to head of investment strategy at ABN Amro Asset Management.
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Investor confidence dips, Merrill says
GLOBAL – Investor confidence in Europe dipped this month revealing a slightly pessimistic outlook for economic growth in the region, according to the latest Merrill Lynch Regional Fund Manager Survey.
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ABN Amro Mellon rejigs management
UK - ABN Amro Mellon’s chief financial officer John van Verre has been appointed chief commercial officer in the first of two board-level changes announced today.
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Scottish Power may reopen final salary scheme
UK – Scottish Power and labour unions are currently in talks about proposals to re-open one of its final salary schemes to long-serving employees.
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Watson’s Carter: investors eye value for money
SWITZERLAND – Kevin Carter, European head at Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting, believes that value for money and flexible products will be top of institutional investors’ wish lists in 2010.
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Investment fund assets grow to €14trn
GLOBAL – Investment fund assets worldwide rose 5.8% at the end of third quarter 2005 to €14.4trn, according to the European Funds and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
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Oxfordshire tenders £20m private equity
UK – The roughly £499m (€730m) Oxfordshire County Council Pension Fund is tendering a £20m investment management mandate to manage specialist private equity fund of funds.
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GSAM sees consultant-manager line blurred
SWITZERLAND - The line between traditional pension fund consultants and investment managers could become increasingly blurred in the future, the Institutional Fund Management conference has been told.
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ABP’s Munsters: “I love risk”
SWITZERLAND – Roderick Munsters, chief investment officer at Dutch civil service fund ABP, says he loves risk because it produces returns.
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Greenalls reviewing investment strategy
UK –Trustees of the Greenalls Group Pension and Life Assurance Scheme – the £250m (€367m) defined benefit fund for the De Vere hotel and travel group - are performing a complete review of the scheme’s investment strategy.
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French institutions ‘using more consultants’
FRANCE – French institutional investors are now more likely to select their fund managers using external consultants – slowly mirroring the British institutional market, according to research by bfinance.
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Hampshire set to overhaul managers
UK – The £2.4bn (€3.5bn) Hampshire County Council Pension Fund is in the process of a complete managerial overhaul as part of a move towards a more specialist approach.
