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Italian bank seeks insurer for €85m pensions
ITALY – Italian bank Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e Piacenza SpA is looking for an insurance company for its €85m corporate pension fund.
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PMI's Cobley becomes chairman of consulting firm
UK - Roger Cobley, the president of the Pensions Management Institute, has been appointed chairman of institutional consulting firm Stamford Associates.
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MLIM taps Gartmore’s Price as CIO EMEA Pacific
UK – Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) has hired Gartmore’s Quintin Price as chief investment officer (CIO) for the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Pacific region (EMEA Pacific).
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Italy- pension investment rules ready by May 15
ITALY – A top-official for the Italian welfare ministry said that the government will be ready to present new rules for pension-savings investments by the first half of May.
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West Sussex CC makes State Street sole custodian
UK - The 740 million pounds (Euro 1.08 billion) West Sussex County Council Pension Fund has consolidated custody of its assets under State Street Corporation, one of its existing custodians.
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SSGA names European consultant liaison director
EUROPE - State Street Global Advisors has named F&C's Valerie Nicholson as director of marketing and consultant liaison, with a Europe-wide brief.
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Dutch consultant Strategeon hires ex-ING exec
NETHERLANDS – Strategeon, the consulting firm run by former Watson Wyatt Dutch investment head Paul van Aalst, has hired a former ING Investment Management marketing executive.
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Philips scheme appoints director (Correct)
NETHERLANDS – The board of directors of the Philips Pension Fund has appointed Jasper Kemme, 42, as the new director of the fund (Corrects reference to Mercer in 2nd paragraph).
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Bank of Ireland Asset Management names UK head
UK - Bank of Ireland Asset Management has named Olivier Santamaria as managing director of Bank of Ireland Asset Management (UK) Ltd.
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BNP Paribas hires global relationship manager
UK - BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed IBM UK’s Kay Hayre to the role of global relationship manager covering financial intermediaries.
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Jardine Lloyd unit named as MG Rover trustee
UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson's Independent Trustee Services arm has been named as independent trustee to two pension schemes of failed UK car firm MG Rover.
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European real estate body INREV names CEO
EUROPE - INREV, the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles, has appointed a new chief executive.
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Nestlé defeats pension funds amid “mistrust”
SWITZERLAND – Food group Nestlé has defeated a corporate governance motion brought against it by a group of pension funds - with outgoing chairman Rainer Gut questioning their motives.
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Hymans Robertson names seven new partners
UK – Consulting actuaries Hymans Robertson has named seven new partners, bring the total number of partners to 27.
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Swiss consultancy Allea joins Milliman Global
SWITZERLAND – Employee benefits firm Allea has joined Milliman Global, the consulting network that includes firms such as Fixage in France and Hymans Robertson in the UK.
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HSBC boosts European securities services sales
EUROPE - HSBC Securities Services has hired Dominic Rieb-Smith as a new global business development manager in its European sales team.
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ABN Amro’s Alfred Berg becomes Societas Europaea
SWEDEN – ABN Amro’s Scandinavian investment group Alfred Berg is to simplify its legal structure by creating a so-called European company, or Societas Europaea.
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DeAM names Germany institutional sales head
GERMANY - Deutsche Asset Management has appointed J P Morgan Fleming’s Peter Kerger to head institutional sales in Germany.
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Fortis hires MN’s Coenraads for Dutch real estate
NETHERLANDS - Fortis Investments has hired MN Services’ Bart Coenraads as chief investment officer for Dutch real estate.
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Sweden’s Alecta names new chief actuary
SWEDEN - The €33bn public authority pension fund Alecta has appointed a new chief actuary to take over from Birgen Bjuren, who is to retire in October.
