All Alternatives articles – Page 124
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News
German institutions ‘to seek lower hedge fees’
GERMANY – German institutional investors will increasingly pressure fund of hedge fund providers to cut management and performance fees, reckons consulting firm Faros.
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Germany: BaFin fund regulator Bartels to retire
GERMANY - Financial services regulator BaFin has confirmed that Volckmar Bartels, its chief supervisor for institutional, retail and hedge funds in Germany, will retire at the end of this month.
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UK’s BBC drops DeAM for NewSmith
UK – The BBC says its £6.4bn (€9.4bn) pension scheme has dropped Deutsche Asset Management in favour of NewSmith due to an underperformance on investment targets.
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Features
Are managers up to speed?
There is increasing awareness among pension fund trustees that derivatives can benefit portfolio management – and some pressure from fund managers to permit the use of more types of derivative products in their portfolios. However, trustees should exercise some caution. Not all managers have the operational capability to support increasingly ...
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Features
Gradually losing their inhibitions
As a Scandinavian country, Norway has been more exposed to the private equity culture than most other countries in Europe. And according to the latest figures from the European Venture Capital Association, Norway is slowly creeping up the European private equity rankings in overall terms. Last year, private equity investment ...
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Special Report
Hope for German SRI?
The rather lacklustre progress of SRI in Germany’s institutional investment market was given a boost in July when the Bundesrat, the country’s upper house, passed legislation extending the SRI reporting obligation for Pensionfonds to the much more numerous and asset-rich Pensionskassen. The reporting obligation that requires funds to disclose whether ...
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Features
MAN CEO says investable hedge indices 'wrong'
Investable hedge funds indices were given the thumbs down by a senior industry figure at the recent Funds Forum conference in Monaco. Stanley Fink, chief executive of MAN Group, which has $42bn (€34bn) of hedge fund assets under management, criticised the development of investable hedge funds indices and regarded them ...
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Citigroup in German hedge fund move
GERMANY - The German investment arm of Citigroup has teamed up with a German and an Austrian private bank to launch one of Germany’s first single hedge funds.
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European schemes differ on pension directive
EUROPE – Managers of European pension funds have widely differing views about the directive on pension funds that is due to implemented by member states in less than a month.
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IPE-QUEST: Two new searches
EUROPE – There are two new searches, for Asia-Pacific equities and pan-European real estate, on IPE-QUEST.
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Man Investments CEO Chambers quits
UK - Man Investments’ chief executive Chris Chambers is stepping down at the end of the month after three and a half years at the alternative investments firm.
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AP3 eyes more portfolio diversification
SWEDEN – Tredje AP-fonden, the Third National Pension Fund or AP3, says it plans more diversity in its portfolio – including areas such as emerging markets, international real estate and infrastructure.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss consultant tenders two mandates
SWITZERLAND – Lugano-based investment consultant Kieger has tendered two mandates worth up to a combined $100m on behalf of clients via IPE-Quest.
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‘No reason to celebrate’ for Swiss funds
SWITZERLAND – Despite a more than 6% return in the first half, Swiss pension funds have no reason to celebrate due to low bond yields, says the Swiss pension fund association ASIP.
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Mellon eyes stake in WestAM – FT
GERMANY – Mellon Financial Corp. is considering taking up to a 50% stake in WestAM, a German institutional fund provider that specialises in fixed income, according to the Financial Times.
