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Pensions savvy “helpful” for new UK regulator
UK – Knowledge of workplace pensions is only among the ‘helpful-to-have’ requirements of the chair of the new Pensions Regulator, according to the ad for the job.
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Hewitt and Watson hire from Aon and ISIS
UK – Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow and Watson Wyatt LLP have both made senior appointments in the UK, hiring from Aon Consulting and ISIS Asset Management respectively.
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Hermes, DeAM officials join UK accounting board
UK – Tony Good, the former head of investment research at Norwich Union Investment Management who is now with Hermes, has joined the UK’s accounting standard Board – along with Peter Westlake of Deutsche Asset Management.
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KPMG's Menken joins Cardano
NETHERLANDS – Cardano Risk Management has appointed KPMG’s Roel Menken as commercial director and member of the board.
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Swiss AHV investment head Kuttler joins Citigroup
SWITZERLAND - Philippe Kuttler, a top official of the Swiss Social Security Pension Fund AHV, has joined Citigroup Asset Management to lead business development in the Swiss market.
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Ex-SPF CIO Groeneveld joins medical fund
NETHERLANDS - Ton Groeneveld, the former chief investment officer at Dutch railways scheme SPF Beheer has joined the 10.5 billion-euro medical scheme SBA on an interim basis as head of asset management.
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UK opposition slams Blair pension “shambles”
UK – Prime Minister Tony Blair has named Alan Johnson as pensions minister following the surprise resignation this week of Andrew Smith – with the opposition dubbing the affair a “shambles”.
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LCP partner Ellis joins Mellon consulting arm
UK - Lane Clark & Peacock partner Ian Ellis has been hired by Mellon Financial Corporation’s Human Resources & Investor Solutions, HR&IS, as principal and senior consulting actuary.
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UK’s RBS hires consultants for European pensions
UK – The Royal Bank of Scotland has hired consultants from Mercer Investment Consulting and Milliman UK to boost its UK and European Insurance and Pensions Group.
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Hewitt develops new Irish pension fund index
IRELAND – Hewitt Associates’ Irish arm Hewitt & Becketts says it has developed a new index to evaluate the performance of managed pension funds in Ireland.
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Swedish county pension head joins T. Rowe
SWEDEN - T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services has recruited the head of 850 million-crown (93 million-euro) Gävleborg County Council pension fund for its new office in Stockholm.
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DeAM’s Copley joins Mellon's European fund arm
EUROPE – Mellon Corp.’s European investment administration arm has hired David Copley from Deutsche Asset Management.
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Northern boosts European transition management
EUROPE - Northern Trust Global Investments says it has former Instinet executive Simon Hutchinson as strategist for transition management in Europe.
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CalPERS buys into German real estate
GERMANY – CalPERS, the largest US pension fund at 166.3 billion dollars (136.8 billion euros), has bought a commercial property in Frankfurt for 14 million dollars.
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Fidelity Investments names UK DB MD
UK - Fidelity Investments has named Martin Harris as managing director of UK Defined Benefits reporting to David Stewart, president of the European Institutional Business.
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Rona replaces Marin as Invesco Spain chief
SPAIN – Invesco Asset Management Spain has named Miguel Rona as its new general director, replacing Juan Marin who is joining Fortis Investments.
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HSBC Actuaries hires Mercer's Sarkar
UK - HSBC Actuaries and Consultants Ltd. says it has hired Jonathan Sarkar from Mercer Human Resource Consulting to be actuarial director.
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Hedge firm Tremont names London investment head
EUROPE - Tremont Capital Management, which produces a hedge fund index with Credit Suisse First Boston and owns TASS Research, has named Jim Mitchell to the new role of head of investment management, Europe.
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AP1 may appoint more external managers
SWEDEN – Första AP-fonden, the 148.1 billion-crown (16 billion-euro) first Swedish buffer fund, says it can’t rule out the possibility of hiring more external asset managers – and that it has set up a new external management unit.
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Kaupthing says it hires SSGA’s Wardi
NORDIC – Iceland’s Kaupthing, which recently set up a UK asset management business, says it has hired State Street Global Advisors’ Peik Wardi to boost its Northern European institutional business.
