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Britannic AM makes international hire
GLOBAL - Britannic Asset Management has appointed Michael Borkan, senior vice-president at Sinopia Asset Management, to develop its institutional and retail distribution outside the UK.
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Shake-up at Nestlé’s Irish fund arm Robusta
IRELAND – Three pension executives of Swiss food group Nestlé have joined the board at Irish Stock Exchange-listed Robusta Asset Management Ltd.
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LPFA’s Scales joins educational charity board
UK - Peter Scales, chief executive of the London Pensions Fund Authority, has joined the Board of Trustees of the Pre-Retirement Association.
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Watson Wyatt’s Hoogeveen joins Mercer
NETHERLANDS – Former Watson Wyatt consultant Jan Hoogeveen has been appointed principal at Mercer's retirement and international practice in Amstelveen.
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Feri consultants join Watson’s German practice
GERMANY - International consultant Watson Wyatt has hired Feri Institutional Management’s Jürgen Heiny and Zeljko Tipuric, for its Investment Consulting practice in Germany.
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AXA IM to buy Framlington Group Ltd for €252m
UK – AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is poised to buy boutique Framlington Group Ltd from HSBC Holdings and Comerica Inc for £174m (€252.1m).
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SWIP appoints southern Europe head
EUROPE – Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has appointed Corrado Amari, 54, as head of southern Europe.
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New head for FERI institutional business
GERMANY -- Investment consultant FERI has appointed Arnd Thorn to the new position of overall institutional business head with immediate effect.
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Hewitt loses out to Capita at animal charity
UK – The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has awarded a three-year contract to Capita Hartshead to administer its defined benefit pension scheme, resulting in a loss for incumbent Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow.
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Watson consultant van Zoelen joins PIMCO
EUROPE – Bond specialist PIMCO, part of Allianz, says it has hired Watson Wyatt investment consultant Henk-Jan van Zoelen.
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Italian insurance regulator wants pension role
ITALY - The Italian insurance industry regulator Isvap has criticised the draft pension law, saying it favours its pension industry counterpart Covip.
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MLIM’s Doll sees ‘halo effect’ of Philips deal
NETHERLANDS – Bob Doll, president and chief investment officer of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, has spoken of the “halo effect” its deal to manage €12bn of Philips pension assets could have for the firm.
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White is the new Black at Buck Consultants
UK - Actuaries Buck Consultants have appointed Lane Clark & Peacock's Steven White as its head of investment consulting - replacing Paul Black, who joined LCP earlier this month.
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Northern Trust set to open Amsterdam office
NETHERLANDS – Northern Trust says it is aiming to open an office in Amsterdam within the first quarter of 2006.
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Former Mercer London chief joins new firm
UK – Paul Couchman, the former head of consulting for London and the southeast of England at Mercer Human Resource Consulting, has joined two-year-old consulting firm Premier Pensions Management.
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Mercer HR Consulting names COO and president
GLOBAL - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has named a new chief operating officer and president, both new roles.
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Ten staff leave as Whitbread outsources (Update)
UK – Restaurant and hotel operator Whitbread has outsourced its previously in-house defined benefit pensions administration – resulting in 10 staff leaving (Updates with Whitbread comment).
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Former BA pension chief joins trustee group
UK – Jenny Rosser, former managing director of pensions at airline group British Airways, has joined independent pension trustee firm BESTrustees.
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Dutch rail scheme joins broker research group
NETHERLANDS – SPF Beheer, which manages €10bn for the Dutch railways pension fund, has joined the Enhanced Analytics Initiative – which seeks to improve brokerage research.
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SSGA to grow alternatives “as fast as we can”- FT
GLOBAL – State Street Global Advisors plans to grow its alternatives business “as fast as we can”, according to an interview with State Street chief executive Ron Logue in the Financial Times.
