People – Page 137
-
News
€200m Balkan Trust seeks new managing director
KOSOVO - The €200m Kosovan Savings Pension Trust (KSPT) is looking for a new head following the decision by Arieta Koshutova to step down.
-
News
Aon Asset Management loses Child
UK - Aon Asset Management’s distribution director, Tony Child is leaving the company after seventeen months, fuelling further speculation that the manager-of-manager outfit is up for sale.
-
News
Threadneedle recruits for Danish push
DENMARK - Nina Movin, former head of equities at Danish healthcare fund PKA, is setting up a Nordic sales office for UK asset manager, Threadneedle Investments, in Copenhagen.
-
News
Ellison: New NAPF chief Hitchen faces “more of the same”
UK – Railpen Chief Chris Hitchen takes over as chairman of the NAPF from Robin Ellison who sees “quite tough challenges” ahead for his successor.
-
News
Pension Consultants name new chairman
UK – The Society of Pension Consultants (SPC) has named Sir James Hodge as chairman to follow David Miers.
-
News
Williams takes over as global Mercer investment COO
GLOBAL - Mercer has promoted Cara Williams to chief operating officer of its investment consulting business. She replaces Jim Hiner, who retires after 20 years with the firm.
-
News
Eumedion names PGGM's Bos as board member
NETHERLANDS - Eumedion, the Dutch corporate governance platform, has appointed PGGM’s chief investment officer, Else Bos as member of its board.
-
News
Aberdeen silent on Leser as head of new German office
GERMANY – Aberdeen Asset Management is entering Germany’s institutional market and is understood to have recruited Hartmut Leser, a former managing director at German investment consultant FERI, to head its new office in Frankfurt, IPE has learned.
-
News
Scottish Widows seeks new head
UK – Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), the £102bn (€155bn) asset manager of Lloyds TSB, is in the hunt for a new chief executive officer.
-
News
Lehman poaches Morgan Stanley star
GERMANY - Lehman Brothers has boosted the coverage of its European Pensions Advisory Group with the appointment of Nigel Cresswell in Frankfurt.
-
News
Fidelity's German head leaves
GERMANY – Klaus-Jürgen Baum has abruptly stepped down as chief executive of the German arm of Fidelity Investments, the US-based asset manager.
-
News
Munich life insurance chief retires
GERMANY – Reinhard Fuchs, the 62-year-old chief executive of Munich-based life insurer WWK, is stepping down.
-
News
New governance head for €27bn Swedish fund
SWEDEN – Peter Lindell has been appointed as the new head of corporate governance at Sweden’s third largest pension provider, AMF.
-
News
NBIM on recruitment trail for range of positions
NORWAY – In a major move to strengthen its team Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) is recruiting around 10 people in various departments.
-
News
Muysken quits Mercer for hedge fund role
UK – After 14 years, Bill Muysken, gobal head of research at Mercer Investment Consulting is leaving to join the London-based hedge fund multi-manager Thames River Capital.
-
News
Former pensions regulator joins board of major bank
IRELAND – Anne Maher, former CEO of The Pensions Board, the Irish pensions regulator, is one of three new appointments to the board of the Allied Irish Banks (AIB), one of the country’s major banking groups.
-
News
Feri Institutional makes 10 new hires in Germany
GERMANY – Feri Institutional Advisors (FIA), a German investment consultant, says it has hired 10 new employees and plans to make several additional appointments during the course of the year.
-
News
Oppenheim nabs Lupus alpha CIO
GERMANY – Sal. Oppenheim’s asset management arm has recruited Wolfgang Leoni as its new head of equities and quantitative management, effective from last January 1, IPE has learned.
-
News
Former LPFA CEO Scales to receive OBE
UK – Peter Scales, former CEO of the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA), will be honoured with the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to local government after a 41 year career in local government finance.
-
News
Norges Bank looking to hire custody specialist
NORWAY – Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) is looking to appoint a new investment operations administrator on the equities team.
