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When Philippe Collas became the founding CEO of Societe Genere Asset Management in 1996, he looked to major markets abroad to jump-start a mostly domestic business. Within a year he [...]

After several lean years equities are back in vogue with European investors. And that's good news for the regions money managers, who are enjoying strong asset inflows and a welcome [...]

Byline: Jo Wrighton Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the newly appointed head of the French financial markets regulator Autorite des marches financiers, has a clear agenda u increase coordination between European regulators and [...]

Byline: Jo Wrighton The French bank stands to double its asset management business with its purchase of Fortis. In todayEs distressed financial climate, money managers are losing assets at an [...]

Jean-Bernard Lafonta, chief executive of Paris-based investment firm Wendel, finally bowed to pressure from disgruntled family shareholders when he resigned at the end of March. Jean-Bernard Lafonta, chief executive of [...]

Weak bond prices are taking the steam out of the pensions buyout business in the U.K. The U.K.Es fledgling pensions buyout market has enjoyed impressive growth over the past two [...]

CEO John Fraser has been reaching out to reassure clients of UBS Global Asset Management. John Fraser is no quitter, although he could be forgiven for having second thoughts about [...]

Market plunge pressures Europe's biggest fund managers. EuropeEs biggest money man-agers were already feeling pressure on their assets and profit margins at the start of this year. The current up-heaval [...]

The credit crisis exposes the French dynasty to risky leverage and family dissident. As patriarch of a family business dynasty that dates back to the days of Louis XIV, Baron [...]

Come September, Edward Forst, the former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is returning to his alma mater, Harvard University, as an executive vice president. Come September, Edward Forst, the [...]

Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain continues to tap his former firm, Goldman Sachs, for talent. Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain continues to tap his former firm, Goldman Sachs, for talent. [...]

European mutual fund managers are scrambling to cut costs and introduce new products. Pity the poor European mutual fund manager. The credit crisis has unleashed a wave of investor jitters [...]

Patrick Dewez canEt get enough activism. Patrick Dewez canEt get enough activism. The former CEO of Knight Vinke Asset Management is setting up a new fund with another famed activist, [...]

Finally, Patrick Evershed is feeling vindicated. Finally, Patrick Evershed is feeling vindicated. Over the past three years, the U.K. fund manager has spent some [pounds sterling]70,000 ($137,700) of his own [...]

Since Norges Bank Investment Management was founded ten years ago to manage NorwayEs prodigious oil wealth, Yngve Slyngstad has toiled in the shadow of the firmEs executive director, Knut Kjaer. [...]

With his Finance Minister Christine Lagarde driving reforms, President Sarkozy aims to restore FranceEs elan. Christine Lagarde: An exclusive interview ItEs easy to see why President Nicolas Sarkozy chose Christine [...]

Goldman, Sachs & Co. got a black eye in August when some of its highest-profile hedge funds plunged in value, but the blow may be worse than it first seemed. [...]

While boldly boosting an already sizable bet on alternatives, ABP investment chief Roderick Munsters is making the Dutch pension fund giant an activist to be reckoned with on both sides [...]

International investors are taking lead roles in U.S. class-action suits. ACROSS EUROPE ACTIVIST investors are flexing their muscles. The call by U.K. hedge fund Children's Investment Fund Management for the [...]

Sanjeev Shah, 36, has a big job ahead. He's taking over from one of Europe's most famous investors, Anthony Bolton, who has managed Fidelity International's Special Situations Fund for more [...]

The Children's Investment Fund, a London-based hedge fund, may have launched the [THORN]rst attack on Dutch bank ABN Amro -- the subject of a bidding war between the U.K.'s Barclays [...]

Byline: Jo Wrighton Eric Knight leads a growing army of activist investors that are shaking up EuropeEs boardrooms. Can he derail SuezEs planned merger with Gaz de [...]

The dynamic head of UniCredito Group transformed a tired state-run institution into a moneymaking powerhouse. But can he strut his stuff on European stage? No one would ever mistake Alessandro [...]

Martyn Arbib is a betting man. He launched the U.K. asset management firm Perpetual in 1973 using money he'd made from horse racing and astute stock picking, including a well-timed [...]

Daniel Roy, the 44-year-old chief executive at CDC Asset Management in Paris, has been hunting for a U.S. acquisition since he took the top job more than two years ago. [...]

Ever since he took the top job at Paris-based CDC Asset Management in March 1998, 44-year old chief executive Daniel Roy has been searching for a takeover target in the [...]

When Larry Fink set up an asset management group for U.S. investment bank Blackstone in 1988, he went his backers one better and named the new company BlackRock. He hoped [...]

The powerful insurer has begun to play a more commanding role in reshaping Germany -- and itself. But becoming a shareholder-focused, market-driven financial giant won't be easy. As a young [...]

William Garrett knew last fall that Robert Fleming Holdings' solo days were numbered. The Flemings chief executive had worked at the bank for 30 years and was a longtime champion [...]

American executives visiting London usually look forward to theater, opera or a fine hotel. Dennis Francis would like to find an old car or maybe an old tractor. The CEO [...]

Don't call James Blanchard a banker. Although the CEO of Columbus, Georgia--based Synovus Financial Corp. (total assets: $13 billion) has been active in the business for more than 30 years, [...]

World accounting standards finally seem to be on a fast track to harmonization. No one is happier about this than Sir Bryan Carsberg, who's been waging a long campaign for [...]

Lehman CFO and administrative head John Cecil, 45, might well have expected to be named president of the firm -- he was, after all, the de facto No. 2 to [...]

Mutual fund road shows can be grueling -- the travel, the speeches, the box lunches. But Richard Garland, head of international operations for Denver-based Janus Capital Corp., would gladly repeat [...]

Kevin Maxwell, who shattered U.K. personal bankruptcy records after his family publishing empire, Mirror Group, collapsed in 1991, still can't seem to get it right. The Nasdaq Bulletin Board delisted [...]

American executives visiting London usually look forward to theater, opera or a fine hotel. Dennis Francis, the CEO of Des Moines--based Principal Capital Management, is on the lookout for additions [...]

William Garrett knew last fall that Robert Fleming Holdings' solo days were numbered. The Flemings chief executive had worked at the bank for 30 years and was a longtime champion [...]

Jim Cramer has never been shy about sharing his views on the market. After all, the excitable hedge fund manager and co-founder of TheStreet.com Web site provides real-rime commentary on [...]

Wall Street research directors spend a lot of time stroking the egos of their top analysts -- and, lately, trying to dissuade them from jumping to dot-coms. Perhaps it was [...]

It all started with a $50 dare and a lot of Ring Dings. On a slow day in March, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Bob Seijas, [...]

Sharon Haugh is the face of the new Schroders. After selling its investment bank to Citigroup in January, the 182-year-old London institution has expanded its remaining activities to include Internet [...]

Screen-based dealing may be replacing the hubbub of the trading pit, but Brad Fishman thinks e-traders need the best of both worlds. His London-based company MarketSound has developed software that [...]

Soon after arriving at Nationwide Financial in March 1999 to head its money management operations, Paul Hondros quietly began putting together a multiproduct, global investment management business -- something like [...]

Lead by example. That's the attitude of Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin, chairman of the newly formed Group of 20 finance ministers from industrialized and major emerging markets. Martin's group [...]

Kees Storm built Aegon into one of Europe's top shareholder value companies. Now he must convince investors it's still a growth stock. Make sure you always pay up when you [...]

When Marc Gabelli thought about naming a new European equity mutual fund for Gabelli Asset Management, the firm his father, Mario, runs, it might have made sense to call it [...]

Money managers have stormed the Continent. But so for they are fighting over scraps. For Hugh Twiss it looked as if a long wait was over as the Italian government [...]

Why Schroders threw in the towel When Schroders sold its investment banking arm to Citigroup or $2.2 billion last month, most observers assumed the 182-year-old firm had concluded that it [...]

Money managers have stormed Europe to manage pension assets. But so far they are fighting over scraps. For Hugh Twiss it looked as if a long wait was over as [...]

With disaster looming, Warsaw launches a hurry-up privatization of its decrepit old-age insurance program. In the small town of Kluczbork, the mail carrier bicycles from house to house with the [...]