All articles by Perttu Jarvenpaa – Page 7
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Europe's first Dow Jones blue chip ETF launched
FRANCE – Lyxor Asset Management, a subsidiary of Société Générale Group, today (May 17) issued the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Europe based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average....
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Watson poaches partner from Lane Clark & Peacock
UK - Richard Abramson is joining Watson Wyatt’s London based benefits practice as a senior consultant, leaving his current partner role at consultant Lane Clark & Peacock...
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Serre takes top spot at CCF-SEI Investments
FRANCE - Patrick Serre has been appointed chairman of multi-manager CCF-SEI Investments, the joint venture of HSBC CCF AMG and SEI Investments.....
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Sweden's AP7 looks at alternatives
SWEDEN - The SEK14bn (e1.55bn) national PPM default fund Sjunde AP-fonden (AP7) is currently considering whether it can invest in alternative asset classes under the country’s PPM legislation, according to Peter Norman, managing director at AP7....
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Finnish FIM21bn state fund to demutualise
FINLAND – The FIM21bn (e3.5bn) LEL Pension Fund , which enjoys a state monopoly over pensions under the Temporary Employees’ Pension Act (LEL) and the Pensions Act for Performing Artists and Certain Groups of Employees (TaEL) is planning to demutualise into a pension insurance company....
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Sweden's PPM asks 'Who Wants to be a Pensioner?'
SWEDEN – The PPM premium pension system has launched an online quiz game based on the TV show ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ , entitled 'Who Wants to be a Pensioner?', in a bid to promote its investment funds system to young Swedes....
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UK pensions 'Blue Book' for 2001 published
UK – The 24th edition of Pension Funds and their Advisers, known as ‘The Blue Book’ by the UK pension funds industry, has been published by London based AP Information Services....
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Denmark's DKr250bn ATP fund set for overhaul
DENMARK – The government has accepted in full a draft bill for amendments to the DKr250bn (e33.5bn) Danish supplementary income based pension scheme ATP....
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Finnish labour groups clash over pension proposals
FINLAND – The Finnish labour market is engaged in a heated debate over how to simplify the country’s complicated retirement system and offer improved benefits to those working for various employers during their working life....
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Zurich Scudder appoints two new vice presidents
SWITZERLAND – Dejan Srejic and Paul Wild have been appointed to two newly created posts of vice president at Zurich Scudder Investments in Zurich as part of the company’s plan to expand its European portfolio management department in the country....
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Earnings cap on pensions worries executives
UK – A growing number of senior executives in the UK are concerned about the pension earnings cap, according to a survey by consultants William M. Mercer....
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Swiss hedge fund player targets Scandinavia
Hilton Supra, former marketing director for Europe at Axa Rosenberg Investment Managers, has joined specialist Swiss asset manager EIM Group as senior marketing manager for Scandinavia....
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Finnish house opens Luxembourg office
FINLAND – Helsinki based investment services group Evli Securities is to open an office in Luxembourg in the autumn to augment its European funds sales operations.
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German Bundesrat approves new pensions law
GERMANY – The Bundesrat upper house of the German parliament today (May 11) approved the centre-left government’s landmark pension reforms, paving the way for reform of the country’s overburdened social security system and the introduction of new private pension arrangements named ‘Pensionfonds’....
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Folksam buys Förenade Liv for institutional push
SWEDEN – Life insurance company Förenade Liv is selling its institutional life insurance arm, Förenade Liv Gruppförsäkring, to insurance group Folksam....
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Greek government postpones pension reform
GREECE – The Greek government has postponed negotiations on pension reform until the end of May following the wave of industrial action that has paralysed the country over the last few weeks....
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Thomson launches broker research platform
EUROPE - Information and technology solutions provider, Thomson Financial, has launched Research Exchange, a research and decision support platform, which includes the company’s broker research, earnings estimates, historical numeric data, pricing and company fundamentals from I/B/E/S, Firstcall, Datastream, ILX, Worldscope and Extel...
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Scottish Widows in tie up for Scandinavian push
SCANDINAVIA – Edinburgh based Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), is to begin marketing asset management services to retail and institutional investors in Finland, Norway and Sweden through co-operation with Stockholm based Intervalor, a marketing firm of international fund managers in the Nordic region....
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Hermes takes stake in private equity firm
UK – Hermes Pensions Management, the £50bn (e80bn) independent manager of the UK’s BT and Post Office pension schemes, is to buy up to a 21% stake in Botts & Company, a private equity fund management and investment company, to facilitate increased deals in direct private equity....
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MLIM nabs Morgan Stanley institutional director
UK – Richard Boon, a former director in institutional investment management with Morgan Stanley, is joining Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) as managing director and head of the manager’s London based US investment team in July....
