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ING taps Ukraine insurance market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
ING Group extends its reach in Eastern Europe after receiving approval to provide its life insurance services in the Ukraine. The firm is expected to begin servicing this market from its head office in the country's capital, Kiev, in the first half ...

Zurich extends political risk insurance to EMs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... emissions trading gained traction. "Zurich recently wrote political risk coverage for a gas pipeline project in eastern Europe that is expected to generate over 29 million carbon credits over the next five years," said Anderson. "We are also active in ...

GES and Limestone launch Eastern Europe SRI fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... negative qualitative screen and will engage companies to improve their environmental and social risks. "The markets of Eastern Europe offer a new opportunity for investors who want to maintain their ethical standards," said Veronika Juchnewitsch, Limestone ...

Ernst & Young unites

... have changed from being country-specific to global by nature. The decision only affects offices in Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa. However, more than 700 partners in the Far East will adopt a similar model across 15 countries ...

Franklin Templeton launches EM fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... "We are seeing tremendous opportunities to invest in companies across various sectors in emerging markets from Eastern Europe, the Asia Pacific region, Africa to Central and South America," said Mobius. "Many emerging markets have robust GDP growth ...

ING IM target resource rich states

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... and Middle Eastern economies would remain strong despite an impending US economic slowdown. "The Middle East and Eastern Europe have become much more important over the last few years and they'll play a bigger factor going forward because export markets ...

Credit Suisse pairs up with Julius Baer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... ideas lead us. Our emerging markets exposure is around 24 per cent of our portfolio with a focus on central and eastern Europe which is different to where everyone else seems to be investing," Gallagher said. According to Gallagher, JBIM assets under ...

Resolution Capital reaches its Pinnacle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
... even manifesting itself in yield differentials between established western Europe and the much more speculative eastern Europe being as low as 100 basis points. Rachel Weld, portfolio manager at Resolution said while they currently only offer discrete ...

Erste Bank signs SimCorp for fund platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
... management and administration IT contract with Erste Bank, one of the largest financial services group in Central and Eastern Europe. The Austrian banking giant will use SimCorp as its software platform across its depositary banking and asset management ...

QWL sets sights on Eastern Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
QWL has launched a fund targeting high growth in Eastern Europe, hoping to take advantage of the region's improving integration within the European Union. The QWL Euro # III Fund is being seeded with a $10 million injection and will invest into listed ...