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Managers dip toes in cross-border pooling

By Thao Hua

Cross-border pooling platforms, originally established for multinational defined benefit plans, are now being used by money managers looking for a competitive edge in Europe.

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2009 Consultants Directory

Investment consultants say a year of gut-wrenching twists and turns didn't kill them - it made them stronger.

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Van Elk replaces Van Hassel as ING Europe CEO

Michel van Elk was named CEO of ING Investment Management Europe.

By Drew Carter

Bornhoft Group hires new partner

Thomas O'Donnell joined The Bornhoft Group as a partner, a new position that is part of an expansion of the managed futures specialist's institutional investor marketing effort.

By Christine Williamson

3 sign on with Putnam's DC sales team

Chris Doucet, Alan Dumas and John Leeson joined Putnam Investments' defined contribution sales team.

By Douglas Appell
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End of the line for Value Line's tyrannical CEO

On Nov. 4, a day after she turned 75, Value Line Inc. Chief Executive Jean Bernhard Buttner got a most unhappy birthday present from the federal government.

By Aaron Elstein    

Bridgewater under the Weather

Bridgewater Associates Inc.'s decision late last year to put its $21 billion All Weather strategy into “depression mode” could provide an opening for a bevy of new competitors looking to pick up market share.

By Douglas Appell    

U.K. report pushes for more corporate governance activism

Investment managers should be more active on behalf of their clients in corporate governance of banks and other financial companies, according to recommendations in a U.K. report released Thursday.

By Barry B. Burr     View more

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International

Managers dip toes in cross-border pooling

Cross-border pooling platforms, originally established for multinational defined benefit plans, are now being used by money managers looking for a competitive edge in Europe.

By Thao Hua    

Institutional assets growing at Partners

Running money managers' personal assets can be a bit daunting. But that's just what London-based private investment office Partners Capital does, and how in turn it has leveraged those personal connections into building an institutional business that has grown to about $3 billion as of Sept. 30, from $20 million at the end of 2004.

By Drew Carter    

U.K. report pushes for more corporate governance activism

Investment managers should be more active on behalf of their clients in corporate governance of banks and other financial companies, according to recommendations in a U.K. report released Thursday.

By Barry B. Burr     View more

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Tuesday, November 9, 2009

Cynthia Steer of Rogers Casey and George Hoguet from SSGA discuss the new asset class of choice - Emerging Markets

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Join Northern Trust experts in a conversation about monitoring and managing alternative asset risk in the context of today's market volatility and challenging liquidity environment.

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It's all in the timing: Face to face with Yngve Slyngstad

When Yngve Slyngstad took the helm of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund-Global in December 2007, timing wasn't on his side. Market forces and external manager underperformance in 2008 contributed to a loss on investments of 23.3%. But performance has picked up markedly this year.

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