Belgium

NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM - Multi-manager firm Frank Russell has bagged a E175m equity/bond mandate from the pension fund for Dutch textiles company, Gamma Holding.

BELGIUM - Telecoms giant Belgacom is looking for managers for its E3.1bn pension scheme.

UK/NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM - The Royal Bank of Scotland Financial Markets is to market Fortis Investment Management's inaugural managed synthetic CDO.

BELGIUM - Léon Brasseur, ex-head of the Belgian Pension Fund Society has joined FRA Benefits Consultants near Brussels as a senior consultant.

BELGIUM - Lasalle's Euro Growth Fund II real estate fund has moved into Belgium with several acquisitions.

BELGIUM - The controversial 3.25% guarantee rate due to be imposed on Belgian second pillar schemes may be reduced to 2% if companies are found to be struggling to honour it.

BELGIUM - The Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference 2002 will be held in Brussels on November 7-8.

NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM - Fortis Investment Management has hired Patrick Van de Steen and Jacques Joakimides as managing director, head of marketing, and head of European convertibles respectively.

BELGIUM - The Brussels-based Fédération Européenne des Fonds et Sociétés d'Investissement (FEFSI), the pan-European federation of investment managers associations and companies, has elected Wolfgang Mansfeld its new president.

BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS - Fortis has become the latest financial services firm to issue a full year profits warning on the back of crumbling markets.