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Consulting firm Blacket goes into liquidation
UK – Blacket Research, the firm set up to evaluate trustee decisions and investment consultants’ advice to pension funds, has gone into liquidation after heavy losses.
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New chief executive at Shell Pensions Bureau
NETHERLANDS - Margreet de Nie-Sarink has been named as managing director of Shell Pensions Bureau Netherlands, the organisation has announced.
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Ex-Unilever pensions head Lewin to help DWP
UK – The Department for Work and Pensions has appointed former Unilever UK head of pensions Chris Lewin to help it cut red tape.
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Schroders buys German real estate manager
GERMANY - Schroders says it has agreed to buy German real estate asset manager Aareal Asset Management GmbH for an initial £18.8m (€28m) from Aareal Bank.
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UK Mineworkers' fund names trustee director
UK – The £10.5bn (€15.6bn) Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme has appointed Vivien Cockerill, pensions partner of law firm Wragge & Co., as a trustee director.
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Alternatives chief to chair Dexia AM
EUROPE – Dexia has named Naïm Abou-Jaoudé to succeed Hugo Lasat as chairman of the management board of Dexia Asset Management.
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USS seeks to strengthen UK equities team
UK – The £26bn (€38.5bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme is looking for a UK smaller companies portfolio manager to strengthen its UK equities team.
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Dutch doctors scheme names finance head
NETHERLANDS - Bernard de Haan has been appointed as head of finance and control at the €12bn Doctors Pension Fund Services.
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Capital International marketing chief joins Lehman
UK – Capital International’s Olaf John has joined Lehman Brothers Asset Management as its new head of distribution for Germany and Austria.
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Threadneedle hires FERI’s Roll for Germany
GERMANY – Threadneedle Investments has recruited Oliver Roll from German investment consultant FERI as its new head of institutional business for Germany, IPE has learned.
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FRR executive board chairman Mayer dies
FRANCE – Francis Mayer, chairman of the executive board at the €29bn Fonds de Réserve Pour les Retraites and chief executive of the Caisse des Dépôts, the French civil servants’ fund, has died aged 56.
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Another consultant to leave Complementa
SWITZERLAND – Erich Züger, investment controller at Swiss pension consultant Complementa Investment-Controlling, will leave the company in January.
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Robeco names fund-of-hedge funds CEO
GLOBAL – Robeco, the asset management arm of Rabobank, has named Michael Abbott as chief executive of its fund of hedge funds group Robeco-Sage Capital.
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Nestlé launches pension advisory group
EUROPE – Nestlé, the Swiss food group, has confirmed the January 1 launch of a new pension advisory unit and a new asset management unit to serve its pension schemes worldwide.
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Threadneedle names global head of consultants
GLOBAL - Threadneedle Investments has named Morley’s Angus Scrace as global head of consultants and investment specialists, a new role.
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Lothian fund advertises investment manager vacancy
UK – The £2.1bn (€3.2bn) Lothian Pension Fund has advertised a job vacancy for an investment manager.
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Mercer principal Stocker joins Lane Clark & Peacock
UK - Lane Clark & Peacock says it has hired Mercer Human Resource Consulting principal Mark Stocker as partner within its London actuarial team.
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BNP Paribas AM names new German head
GERMANY – The German arm of BNP Paribas Asset Management has named Ilona Wachter as its new institutional business head, effective from last December 1.
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Lane Clark launches corporate, trustee practices
UK - Lane Clark & Peacock has launched two specialist investment consulting practices.
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3,900 jobs go as BoNY, Mellon merge (Update)
GLOBAL - The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corp. have announced a definitive agreement to merge into a new entity to be called the Bank of New York Mellon Corp (Updates with reaction comment).
