All articles by Perttu Jarvenpaa – Page 6
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Russell wins £60m Ranks Hovis equity slice
UK – Food manufacturing and marketing company Ranks Hovis McDougall has appointed Frank Russell Company to a £60m (e99m) multi-manager continental European equity mandate....
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Irish e6.5bn fund tenders for custodian
IRELAND – Consultant Bacon & Woodrow has been appointed to advise the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) on the selection of a global custodian for the e6.5bn National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF)....
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MSCI free float will see European weightings fall
EUROPE - The weighting of most European countries will decrease under MSCI’s provisional world free float index, MSCI Provisional ACWI Free Index, compared to its standard ACWI index....
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GAM launches active US hedge fund
Global Asset Management (GAM) is launching a new active US hedge fund on May 24 managed by James Abate, who joined the company’s New York office in January....
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Dawson to lead State Street's Scottish operations
UK – Alan Dawson has been appointed vice president of State Street’s client services for its Investment Management Solutions business in Edinburgh....
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SWIP hires Ebenston as chief operating officer
UK – Edinburgh based Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has completed the restructuring of its senior management team by hiring Susan Ebenston as chief operating officer....
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State Street bags CHF500m passive SRI brief
SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Federal Social Security Fund (Ausgleichsfonds der Alters -und Hinterlassenenversicherung) has awarded a CHF500m (e326m) passive socially responsible investment (SRI) mandate to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)...
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DnB in late bid to foil Sampo/Storebrand merger
FINLAND/NORWAY – Den Norske Bank (DnB) made an eleventh hour bid for Norwegian asset manager Storebrand last night (May 20), just before Finnish financial services group Sampo and Storebrand were to hold a press conference promoting a merger between the two, a deal which would create the sixth largest asset ...
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SRI to dominate within five years, says adviser
UK – Socially responsible investment (SRI) will overtake traditional investment strategies within the next five years, according to the latest SRI report published by independent financial advisers Holden Meehan....
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DrKW names new German head of investment banking
GERMANY – Thomas Schwingeler is joining Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s Frankfurt office in the late summer as managing director of investment banking....
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Cogent brings Kirk on board for European MD role
UK/EUROPE – Nick Kirk has been promoted as managing director for Europe at London based Cogent, the international investment operations subsidiary of Australian financial services group AMP....
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BAM appoints new UK/Europe asset management head
UK/EUROPE – Baring Asset Management (BAM) has poached Percival Stanion from BNP Paribas Asset Management to become a head of UK and European investment management....
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UK consultant appoints four new partners
UK – Rachel Evans has been promoted as a partner at Amersham based actuary and consultancy Barnett Waddingham, the first non-actuary partner in the company.
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New Italian government to open up pensions market
ITALY – Competition and freedom of choice between open and closed pension funds could be established in Italy with the election of Silvio Berlusconi’s right wing/centre coalition government, according to prominent Italian consultant Piero Marchettini at Adelaide Consulting in Milan....
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European pensions tax case could last two years
FINLAND/EUROPE – The first court case to be heard by the European Court of Justice following the publication of EC internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein’s communication on tax for cross-border pension arrangements, could take up to two years to be resolved, according to the Finnish courts....
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Chiswell gets a good start to pensions' field
UK – The £34m (e56m) industry-wide Chartered Accountants’ Employees Superannuation Scheme has appointed Chiswell Associates to manage the fund...
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CAAM launches a new sector neutral European fund
EUROPE - Crédit Agricole Asset Management is launching a new Europen equity research fund, based on the recommendations of its 17 in-house analysts...
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Frank Russell appointed to a £50m global brief
UK – The dairy product supplier Express Dairies has awarded Frank Russell Company with an expected £50m (e82m) global equity mandate...
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Piermay elected chair of Euracs consultant network
EUROPE – Dominique Piermay has been appointed to succeed Nico Top as chairman of European Actuarial Consultancy Services (Euracs), the largest European association of independent consulting actuaries...
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Standard Life launches European venture trust
UK – Standard Life Investments has launched its first investment trust, Standard Life European Private Equity Trust, at an anticipated market capitalisation of £160m (e260m)....
