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Citigroup Germany names new head of alternative sales
GERMANY – Mathias Giebken has been appointed as Citigroup’s new head of institutional sales for alternative investments in Germany and Austria, it was announced today.
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Mercer snaps up Barnett Waddingham partner
UK – Isabel Coles, former partner at independent actuarial partnership Barnett Waddingham, has been appointed as principal at Mercer’s international retirement business.
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Rabobank pension fund looking for head of asset management
NETHERLANDS – The €10bn corporate pension fund of the Dutch Rabobank is looking for a head of asset management, the fund’s managing director Jos Dirks told IPE.
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Frijns steps down as Kempen board member
NETHERLANDS – Jean Frijns, former head of investments at ABP, has stepped down as member of the supervisory board at the Dutch bank Kempen. Following Kempen’s takeover by Van Lanschot, the whole board resigned at the end of 2006.
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New editor for IPE magazine
Investment & Pensions Europe is to have a new a new editor as from mid-February to take over from founding editor Fennell Betson, who will become editorial director of IPE.
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SEI’s institutional sales head leaves
UK – Francis Ellison, head of institutional sales at multi-manager SEI Investments’ London office, has left according to the firm’s head of institutional business Patrick Disney.
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Littlewoods brings pensions in-house
UK – Sue Nimmo has been appointed pensions manager for the Littlewoods Shop Direct Group.
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New Nestlé pension arm takes over
EUROPE – The newly created Nestlé Capital Management (NCM) is to take over from Nestlé UK Pension Trust Ltd or Fonds de Pensions Complementaire Nestlé as investment manager for the company’s in-house Robusta funds.
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Goldman Sachs AM Germany chief exits
GERMANY – James Dilworth has quit as managing director of Goldman Sachs Asset Management in Germany.
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Denmark’s PFA Pension names new CIO
DENMARK – Henrick Franck will become the new chief investment officer for the DKK 206.4bn (€27.7) Danish life insurer PFA Pension as of April 1 2007.
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Varma CEO to chair new market association
FINLAND – Matti Vuoria, chief executive of Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Co., has been elected chairman of Finland’s new Securities Market Association.
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Hewitt opens Cyprus office
CYPRUS - Hewitt Associates says it has opened a new office in Nicosia, headed by consultant Philippos Mannaris.
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ABP names executive board chairman
NETHERLANDS – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the €201bn Dutch civil service pension fund, has named chief financial officer Dick Sluimers as its new executive board chairman.
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Association of British Insurers’ pension head leaves
UK – Chris Kenny, head of pensions at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), will be leaving the organisation as of tomorrow.
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Investment Management Association gets new chair
UK – The UK’s Investment Management Association, the asset management trade body, has named Robert Jenkins as its new chairman.
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Interpolis asset management head leaves
NETHERLANDS – Interpolis’ head of asset management Herman Bril has left the Dutch insurer to join Aegon where he will lead the firm’s treasury and capital management activities.
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Robeco names international chief
GLOBAL – Robeco, the asset management arm of Rabobank, has named former ABN Amro Asset Management executive Frank Kusse to head up its international expansion.
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IBM names UK pensions trustee board member
UK – Computer giant IBM has appointed its European corporate treasurer Jean-Louis de Gandt to replace David Hershberg on the trustee board at the £4.9bn (€7.2bn) IBM UK Pensions Trust Ltd.
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MN Services names commercial director
NETHERLANDS – AXA’s Pieter Kiveron is returning to Dutch pension servicing company MN Services as commercial director, it was announced today.
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Hewitt Associates’ information chief leaves
GLOBAL – Hewitt Associates’ chief information officer Perry Cliburn has left the company to join information services and human resources outsourcing firm Ceridian Corp.