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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.
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Blue Sky names new managing director
NETHERLANDS – Blue Sky Group, which manages the pension assets of airline KLM, has named Toine van der Stee as its new managing director.
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CSFB real estate’s Gallatly joins MLIM
UK - John Gellatly, a director in CSFB’s real estate investment banking team, is to join Merrill Lynch Investment Management as head of indirect real estate investment and strategy.
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Blue Sky hires market regulator’s Ruitenbeek
NETHERLANDS – Blue Sky Group, which manages the pension assets of airline KLM, has recruited Marga Ruitenbeek from the Dutch financial markets regulator for a new position within its investment team.
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San Paolo arm names old-age provision head
ITALY – San Paolo IMI’s insurance arm Assicurazioni Internazionali di Previdenza (AIP) has appointed Ras Assicurazioni’s Giuseppe Greco to the new role of managing director to develop its old-age provision business.
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BNP Paribas makes securities services hire
NETHERLANDS – BNP Paribas Securities Services has hired Fortis Bank’s Marco Homburg for its institutional investor sales team.
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Gloucestershire scheme in €65m property move
UK – The £640m Gloucestershire County Council Pension Scheme has put its entire £45m (€65m) property exposure into the Hermes Property Unit Trust, or HPUT.
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CSAM names finance chief for UK and France
EUROPE - Credit Suisse Asset Management has named Mark Tickle as chief financial officer for the UK, France, eastern Europe and Spain.
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Calpers to move to 15-year contribution smoothing
The $186bn (€139bn) California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers) has provisionally agreed to smooth employer contributions by viewing the changes in asset values over a 15-year period instead of three years.
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Morgan Stanley’s Derbyshire joins Merrill Lynch
UK – Gareth Derbyshire, executive director at Morgan Stanley and number two at the firm’s European Pensions Group, has left the company after seven years to join rivals Merrill Lynch.
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UK actuaries start huge shake-up after report on conflicts of interest
UK actuaries are facing its biggest shake-up in the last 100 years as the government –appointed expert recommends independent scrutiny of the profession and other measures to address the “quite serious” problems and conflicts of interest it faces.
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AP7 names central bank’s Ragnartz chief analyst
SWEDEN – The SEK5bn (€550m) seventh Swedish national pension fund, AP7, has appointed fund manager Christian Ragnartz of the Central Bank, Sveriges Riksbank, as chief analyst.
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MLIM appoints Anne Swift and warns on equity overconfidence
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers has appointed Anne Swift as its relationship manager and investment officer in the defined contribution pension team but has also warned that institutional fund managers were more overweight in equities than at any time since 1999.
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Jobs threat as RWE outsources (Update)
UK – In-house pensions administration staff at a UK arm of German utility RWE have been offered voluntary redundancy amid an outsourcing deal with Capita Hartshead (updates with number of staff).
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Aon expands in Swedish pension market
SWEDEN – Aon Consulting says its entry into the Swedish pension consulting market last year has prompted a lot of interest from customers and potential employees.
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DeAM's Benkner takes charge of fund business
GERMANY - Axel Benkner, chief executive of Deutsche Asset Management in continental Europe, has taken over the additional responsibility as head of DeAM’s global investment fund business.
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MN Services names new real estate head
NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension schemes administrator and asset manager MN Services have named Richard van Ovost as new head of its international real estate team.
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Schroders nabs ex-BGI exec to head UK DC
UK - Schroder Investment Management has appointed Michael MacDonald-Smith as head of its UK defined contribution business in a bid to concentrate on this increasingly popular pension arrangement.
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Julius Baer says it’s not a takeover candidate
SWITZERLAND – Julius Baer Group says its new share structure does not mean it’s a takeover candidate - and that it could be on the lookout for acquisitions.
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Fortis names chief information officer
BELGIUM – Fortis has appointed Alain Deschenes to the new position of chief information officer to provide “strategy, leadership and management” to information services across the group.
