All Alternatives articles – Page 108
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Kosovo fund names two asset managers
KOSOVO – The Kosovo Pensions Savings Trust (KPST) has appointed Schroders and ECM as fixed income managers.
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Blue Sky appoints commercial chief
NETHERLANDS - Blue Sky Group, the Dutch pension fund manager which runs the KLM pension fund, has appointed Francis van Bergenhenegouwen as head of commercial affairs.
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Swedish Minister warns of transparency law
SWEDEN - Sven-Erik Österberg, the Swedish Minister for Local Government and Financial Markets, has warned that he may introduce a new law to compel private equity and venture capital companies to disclose information about their borrowing.
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Italian hedge fund industry lacks special skills – AIMA
ITALY – The absence of specialist on-shore knowledge in Italy’s hedge fund industry has dampened down the market for competition, according to a report by global hedge fund trade association AIMA and international law firm Simmons and Simmons.
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Old Mutual Asset Managers appoints CIO
UK – Old Mutual Asset Managers (OMAM) has appointed Eoin Murray, its current head of quantitative strategies, as chief investment officer.
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Swedish regulator voices concern on private equity
SWEDEN - Sweden’s financial supervisory authority, Finasinspektionen (FI), has said it is worried about the rising levels of debt in private equity and venture capital companies and has called for greater transparency in their activities.
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IPE-QUEST: Two new searches on system
GLOBAL – A continental European pension fund is looking to invest between $50m and $100m in hedge funds via IPE-QUEST.
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Insight sacks six in restructure
UK - Insight Investment has fired six UK analysts – three from equities and three from the UK research team – in a restructuring effort aimed at turning around its underperformance in UK equities.
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UK investors manage over €4.3tn
UK – Investment managers in the UK now manage over £3trillion(E4.3trn) in assets, according to the Investment Management Association(IMA).
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ABP takes 100% stake in Loyalis as levensloop comes under fire
NETHERLANDS - Civil service pension fund ABP has increased its stake in its subsidiary company Loyalis from 20% to 100%, it has announced.
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Burying heads in sand
The attitude to hedge funds among most UK pension funds never fails to amaze me. While happily (or at least willingly) accepting the volatility of equities, most trustees seem too frightened to make an investment in hedge funds, claiming that such an investment would be too risky despite the majority ...
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Shunning the black box
Imagine you are at a cocktail party by Lake Geneva on a warm summer evening, perhaps in Lausanne or Montreux. And as you sip a drink and enjoy the view of the sun setting behind the mountains you are aware of an ambiance of good feeling, you see people networking ...
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Alternatives making a little headway
In Italy, investment rules for each pension fund differ according to what type of legal regime it falls into. The most recent funds, formed under the 1993 pensions law, cannot in general invest in alternatives – they can only do so via harmonised mutual funds linked to traditional asset classes. ...
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Nestlé setting up UK asset manager
UK – Nestlé says it is setting up a UK-based asset manager to provide services for its global pension funds.
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GSAM wins €750m Océ fiduciary deal
NETHERLANDS - Goldman Sachs Asset Management says it has been appointed to as fiduciary manager for €750m in assets at Stichting Pensioenfonds Océ.
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Two UK local authorities go unconstrained
UK – Two UK local authority pension funds – London Borough of Enfield and the Lothian Pension Fund - have separately opted to run significant assets in an unconstrained manner.
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Lane Clark parent gets private equity approach
UK – Alexander Forbes, the South African-based parent company of UK actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock, is in talks with private equity investors about a sale of the entire group.
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BIG forms private equity joint venture
IRELAND – Financial services outfit Bank of Ireland Group (BIG) has formed a joint venture with US private equity specialist Paul Capital Partners to provide private equity fund of funds products and advisory services to institutional and other investors worldwide.
