All Alternatives articles – Page 101
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News
Deutsche Bank nabs Insight’s Hamilton for LDI
UK – Deutsche Bank has hired former Hewitt Associates consultant Joseph Hamilton to join its Insurance and Pensions Group.
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Features
Time to take the commodities plunge?
With the bull market now at an end many fund managers are considering a move into commodities, but there are risks attached, as Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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80% of UK funds to alter asset mix – Greenwich
UK – Greenwich Associates says 80% of UK pension funds plan to significantly alter their asset mixes in the next three years.
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Norges chief slams “disguised beta” hedge funds
NORWAY – Knut Kjaer, executive director of Norges Bank Investment Management, which runs the NOK1.5trn (€182bn) Norwegian Pension Fund – Global, says many hedge funds are overpriced beta suppliers.
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Features
Flat period for FoFs
The Eurekahedge fund of funds index was virtually flat in September (+0.02% returns). But there was a major hedge-fund-industry-specific market event during the month: Amaranth Advisors, a $10bn (€7.9bn) Connecticut-based multi-strategy fund, lost 35% of its assets in natural gas positions (natural gas prices fell over 30% during the month) ...
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Hedge funds - assets or asset strippers?
Are hedge funds really locusts stripping Dutch companies of their assets or are they a source of rich returns to the pension funds that invest in them. Leen Preesman reports on an increasingly acrimonious debate between Dutch unions and pension funds
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Putting the case for alternatives
While bonds and cash may have more liquidity than alternatives, the latter can produce higher long-term yields. Joseph Mariathasan reports
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Alternatives receive enthusiastic response
While Sweden is particularly experienced in hedge fund investments, Norway and Finland are renowned for their private equity acumen, as Gail Moss reports
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Special Report
Making a beeline for activist hedge funds
The activities of activist funds in targeting companies that have become national champions have caused political apoplexy throughout Europe, with ministers wagging their fingers at pension funds and warning them to have nothing to do with predatory private equity companies and hedge funds. But pension funds are encouraged to diversify into alternative investments and become active owners of the companies they invest in. So what should they do?
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Hampshire tenders advice on alternatives
UK – The £2.5bn (€3.7bn) Hampshire County Council Pension Fund is seeking advice on alternative investments. The tender follows an overhaul of the fund’s management structure from multi-asset to specialist mandates.
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PGGM settling forex trades via CLS
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the €77bn Dutch health care pension fund, is now settling foreign exchange trades via Continuous Linked Settlement through its use of the Misys Treasury Plus automated third-party trade notification service, the provider says.
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Paternoster CEO outlines “keys to success”
UK – Mark Wood, chief executive of Paternoster, has outlined what he terms the keys to the success of the new breed of pension buyout firms.
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Smaller schemes chase ‘more liquid’ property
REAL ESTATE - Robin Goodchild, head of European investment at property firm LaSalle, this week urged large pension funds to invest directly in real estate and claimed smaller ones were re-thinking their lack of exposure.
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Aviva’s annuity sales fall 6%
UK – Insurance group Aviva has become the latest to warn about pricing pressure in the UK’s bulk annuities market after reporting a 6% decline in total annuity sales.
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UK’s PPF in “urgent” fund manager tender
UK – The Pension Protection Fund has issued a tender seeking asset managers for a range of asset classes as a “matter of urgency”.
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Studies find private equity taking strong hold among Europe’s investors
EUROPE – European institutional investors’ growing appetite for diversification and the “superior returns” of private equity is set to encourage rapid growths in the asset class, studies have revealed today.
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Former Hermes strategy head new CIO at US University fund
UK – Hermes’ James Walsh has been nabbed by the $5bn (£2.35bn) Cornell University fund in the US as the endowment’s new chief investment officer.
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Three UK LAs tender mandates totalling €400m
UK – Three local authority pension funds in the UK are tendering almost £400m (€550m) in Asia Pacific, global and UK unconstrained equity mandates.
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Royal Mail scheme chairman joins Synesis
UK – Jane Newell, chairman of the £21bn (€31.3bn) Royal Mail Pension Plan, is to join the board of new pensions annuity firm Synesis Life as a non-executive director.
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Prudential sees bulk annuities competition
UK – Prudential says there’s more competition in the bulk annuities market – and that it won’t budge on price.
