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BP Investments' Pidcock joins Newton
UK - Newton Investment Management says it has hired Jason Pidcock, a fund manager from BP Investment Management, the firm which manages the pension assets of oil firm BP.
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Morgan Stanley IM makes UK appointments
UK - Morgan Stanley Investment Management has made two appointments to its UK institutional team.
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Fortis names Talia as Italy fund solutions MD
ITALY- Fortis Bank Information Banking, the Benelux bank’s asset servicing arm, has opened a subsidiary in Milan to boost its presence in the European ‘prime fund solutions’ market.
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Hewitt sees take-up of unconstrained benchmarks
UK – Hewitt bacon & Woodrow says six of its pension fund clients have so far adopted the so-called ‘unconstrained benchmark’ approach – with more evaluating such a move.
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SSGA launches absolute return currency fund
GLOBAL - State Street Global Advisors has launched its first absolute return currency fund for institutional investors.
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UBS hires Royal Bank of Scotland’s Williams
UK – UBS has hired Huw Williams, head of pension fund strategy at Royal Bank of Scotland, as head of pensions strategy.
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Mellon consulting arm hires Hymans’ George
UK - Mellon Financial Corp.’s Human Resources & Investor Solutions arm has named Marian George as a senior investment consultant.
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Italy’s Espero teachers’ fund tenders admin
ITALY - Fondo Scuola Espero, the new government-backed pension fund targeting 1.1 million teachers, has tendered for a manager to take on its administration and accountancy function.
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Merchant Navy scheme CEO retires after revamp
UK - Geoffrey Henry, the chief executive of the 2.7 billion-pound (4.03 billion-euro) Merchant Navy Pensions Administration Ltd. Merchant Navy Officers Pensions Fund, MNOPF, has retired.
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Schroders makes hedge fund appointment
UK - Schroders has appointed Russell Investment Group’s Derek Doupe to the new role of head of business development for its fund of hedge funds business.
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SEI names Harris as France asset mgmt head
FRANCE - SEI Investments has appointed Damian Harris as new head of asset management in France after Jean-Yves Foucat left the company to become an independent consultant.
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Former HVB pension head Eckert joins Allianz
GERMANY - Carsten Eckert, former chief executive of Pension Consult, the consulting arm of HypoVereinsbank, has joined Allianz.
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Fund Forum: UCITS boards shun auditors
EUROPE - More than a quarter of the boards of pan-European mutual funds UCITS never ask auditors to attend their meetings, according to a new survey by a leading consultancy.
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AP2 names head of corporate governance
SWEDEN – The 140.4 billion-crown (15.3 billion-euro) second Swedish national pension Andra AP-Fonden, or AP2, has named Carl Rosén as head of corporate governance and communications.
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Railpen names Johnson as finance director
UK - The 14 billion-pound (20.8 billion-euro) Railways Pension Trustee Co. has appointed Frank Johnson as finance director following the retirement of Malcolm Gray.
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Italian opposition sticks by Dini reform
ITALY- The left-wing coalition would not change the Dini pension reform of 1995 if it won the next general election in 2006, a top official at the left-wing Democratici di Sinistra party said.
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Swedish pension market in midst of restructure
SWEDEN - The crisis in the Swedish mutual life insurance market is leading to a shake-up in the pensions industry, Alex Inkapool writes.
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Germany: Sihler’s DeAM bond team joins UBS
GERMANY – Joerg Sihler, head of fixed income at Deutsche Asset Management in Frankfurt, and his team have moved to UBS Global Asset Management.
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UK coal scheme aligns with BTPS on governance
UK – The 10 billion-pound (14.9 billion-euro) British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme has aligned with the BT Pension Scheme on governance issues, with an outsourcing deal with Hermes.
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Fortis Bank asset services arm hires ING’s de Boer
GLOBAL – Fortis Bank’s asset servicing arm, Fortis Bank Information Banking, says it has hired former ING executive Jan Bart de Boer as global director of commerce.
