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F&C ends outsourcing project with Mellon
UK – London-based F&C Asset Management has discontinued its project to outsource the former ISIS Asset Management operational functions to Mellon Financial Services. This followed a failure to agree “satisfactory contractual terms”, a statement said.
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SAM appoints new global marketing head
SWITZERLAND – Swiss sustainable asset management company SAM has appointed Eric Gelfgren as global head of marketing and sales.
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Watson announces five client wins
EUROPE – Consulting firm Watson Wyatt says it has won five new clients recently.
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State Street nabs Philips’ back office head
NETHERLANDS – State Street has hired Philips’ Pension Fund’s former back office head Jan van der Meijden as vice president, head of middle office services.
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MLIM hires Aegon UK credit head
UK – Merrill Lynch Investment Managers has appointed former Aegon Asset Management UK credit head, Daniel McKernan, as sterling credit fund manager.
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Pensions Trust names sales manager
UK – Occupational pension fund The Pensions Trust has appointed Phil Bradish as sales manager following an expansion and restructuring of its sales team.
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AMF names new bond head
SWEDEN – Bengt Björkén has been named head of bond management at AMF Pension.
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Ex-Mercer partner appointed Hewitt consultant
UK – Hewitt Associates has hired former Mercer HRC European partner Jonathan Gainsford as consultant at the group’s UK retirement business practice.
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Cominvest gets new chief executive
GERMANY – Commerzbank has created a new management board for its asset management division and named a new chief executive for German fund arm Cominvest in a bid to revive the division’s sagging fortunes.
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WM’s Walsh gets expanded State Street role
UK – State Street Corp. has appointed WM’s Michael Walsh to take over as Scotland managing director from John Corcoran, who’s returning to Boston.
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Royal & Sun appoints pensions “troubleshooter”
UK – Royal & SunAlliance has appointed pensions “troubleshooter” Jerry Gandhi as interim UK pensions director following the departure of Kevin O’Boyle to BT.
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British Telecom names head of pensions
UK – Kevin O’Boyle, former UK pensions director at Royal & SunAlliance, has been appointed new head of pensions at phone giant British Telecom.
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Row erupts over German master funds
GERMANY – The head of investments at German insurer VHV has blasted German master funds, saying they haven’t delivered on their promises.
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ABN Amro names new asset management CEO
GLOBAL – ABN Amro has named Sarah Russell, an Australian who joined the bank in 1994, as chief executive of its asset management division.
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Mercer disbands international consulting team
GLOBAL – Mercer Human Resource Consulting is to dissolve and re-deploy its international consulting team from January 2006 to “maximise its impact and potential”, according to an internal memo seen by IPE.
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Watson Wyatt makes three Dutch hires
NETHERLANDS – Watson Wyatt has hired three new staff for its “rapidly expanding” investment consulting team in the Netherlands.
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Consultants give good advice - researcher
UK – Pension consultants generally give trustees good advice, says the head of a new firm which tracks the effectiveness of advice.
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Netherlands’ Akkermans boosts pension team
NETHERLANDS - Dutch consultancy Akkermans & Partners has hired Rob Simon as director of its new pension communication service, it said.
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Dutch doctors' fund names new CIO
NETHERLANDS - The €11bn Doctors Pension Funds Services has hired TKP Pensioen's Jan Willem Baan as its new chief investment officer.
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ABN Amro names European consultant head
EUROPE - ABN Amro Asset Management has named Henderson's Deborah Harris to the new role of European head of consultant relationships.
