People – Page 154
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Brewer InBev changes pensions admin (correct)
UK - The £295m (€420.6m) defined benefit pension fund of global brewer InBev has axed Paymaster as pensions administrator in favour of Watson Wyatt (corrected).
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Cambridge hires ex-State Streeter for hedge funds
US – Consulting firm Cambridge Associates has former State Street’s Charles Cassidy to the new role of director of operational due diligence for its hedge fund group.
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Ex-Mercer chief joins BT scheme as trustee
UK – The £35bn (€50.2bn) BT Pension Scheme has appointed former Mercer Human Resource Consulting chief executive David Barford and former Prudential Group finance director Les Cullen as trustees to the fund.
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Pension Commission still getting mixed responses
UK – The ball’s in the government’s court now that the long-running saga of the Pensions Commission – it’s just released its third report – has come to an end.
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Swedish watchdog wants more provider flexibility
SWEDEN - The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority Finansinspektionen has called for all private pension savers in Sweden to have the right to move their pension savings between pension providers.
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TKP Investments names van Wijk as CIO
NETHERLANDS – TKP Investments has named SNS Asset Management research chief Roelie van Wijk as chief executive, chief investment officer and president of the investment board.
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Waygood to chair UK Social Investment Forum
UK – Steve Waygood, director for investor responsibility at Insight Investment, has been appointed chairman of the UK Social Investment Forum, which promotes SRI among UK investors.
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Mercer hires German construction fund’s Doetsch
GERMANY - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has named Peter Doetsch of the German construction industry pension fund as head of its retirement business in the country.
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AP4 selects ORTEC’s Pearl attribution system
SWEDEN – Swedish buffer pension fund Fjärde AP-Fonden (AP4) has selected Dutch consulting firm ORTEC’s Pearl performance attribution system.
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PGGM names investments operating chief
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the €70bn Dutch healthcare and social work pension fund, has named Marc van den Berg as chief operating officer of investments as of May 1.
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Allianz's Corley to chair asset management forum
EUROPE - Elizabeth Corley, chief executive of Allianz Global Investors Europe, has been appointed chairman of the Forum of European Asset Managers, FEAM.
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AP2 investment chief resigns in tax probe
SWEDEN – Petter Odhnoff, chief investment officer of the SEK190.6bn (€20.5bn) Second Swedish National Pension Fund or AP2 has quit amidst allegations of tax irregularities following an audit conducted by the Swedish tax authorities.
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GMO nabs ex-Towers’ Noordman for Dutch role
NETHERLANDS – Former Towers Perrin investment consultant Bart Noordman has joined global investment management firm GMO as business development director for the Netherlands.
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Hewitt nabs Mercer Germany consulting chief
GERMANY – Hewitt Associates has hired Dieter Oppermann, the former head of Mercer’s international consulting operations in Germany.
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Somerset council scheme axes Hewitt
UK – Hewitt Associates has been axed as actuary and investment consultant to the £960m (€1.4bn) Somerset County Council pension fund.
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Van den Brink likens PME to Harvard and Yale
NETHERLANDS - Roland van den Brink, chief investment officer at the €19bn Dutch metals industry fund PME, has likened his fund to the US university endowments Yale and Harvard.
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Mercer parent names marketing chief
GLOBAL - Marsh & McLennan, the parent company of Mercer and Putnam Investments, has named James Speros as chief marketing officer.
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Towers' Compté joins new Belgian consultant
BELGIUM - Towers Perrin London-based consultant Frédéric Compté has joined some of his former Aon colleagues at new consulting firm Esofac Belgium.
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MEPs reject UCITS for pension directive
EUROPE – Members of the European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee have voted against proposals to bring UCITS investment funds within the scope of the directive on occupational pension funds.
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Deutsche Post names group pensions director
GERMANY – Benedikt Köster, former international pension accounting chief in Germany for Aon Jauch & Huebener Consulting, has been appointed director of group pensions at Deutsche Post.
