All Alternatives articles – Page 125
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Infrastructure’s long-term payback
Pension funds are trying to spread their investments across a much wider spectrum of asset classes than in the past. More ‘alternative’ products are being offered on the market to meet the insatiable demand from institutions. One area now attracting increasing attention in Europe is infrastructure investment. The term immediately ...
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Intimate world of private placements
Private placements (PPs) are private as opposed to public securities. In the case of PPs, securities are offered directly to a limited number of investors and are exempt from stock exchange listing or public registration and usually unrated. The most common form of private securities are long-term, fixed-rate debt. These ...
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Three months positive
Despite the poor performance of stock markets (especially the small cap and growth stock segments), hedge funds managed to take advantage of the good performance of bond markets and the rally on the commodity markets to post positive returns for the third month in a row. CTA Global funds achieved ...
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Seeking new sources of return
The first of its kind, the New Sources of Return Survey for 2005 undertaken by asset manager JP Morgan Asset Management, questioned 125 representatives of 120 of the largest US pension plans. Both corporate and public plans were included, as well as a few non-profit, Taft-Hartley, and other plans. Differences ...
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Patience is the watchword
The €560m Nordurlands Lifeyrissjodur is a pan-industry private pension fund for employees in Iceland’s Northern Province. Its 12,000 members include workers in the fishing and manufacturing industries, as well as the service sectors. The hybrid scheme is biased towards the defined contribution model, although it is obliged to pay a ...
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IPE-QUEST: Three new searches on system
GLOBAL – There are three new searches on the IPE-Quest system, for global commodities, liability solutions and Australian equities.
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Barclays nabs PSolve’s Orpin for UK pensions
UK – Barclays Capital says it has hired Gavin Orpin from PSolve Asset Solutions for its UK Pensions Solutions team.
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Morgan Stanley IM seeks leaders as profits fall
GLOBAL – Morgan Stanley says it is looking for new leadership in asset management amid a 25% fall in quarterly profits at the division.
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Goldman: pension funds to sell €250bn of equities
GLOBAL – Goldman Sachs has estimated that pension schemes globally will remove some €250bn from equities – and buy around €150bn in fixed income.
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Goldman Sachs AM gets €14.8bn inflows
GLOBAL – Goldman Sachs’ asset management business had $18bn (€14.8bn) of net asset inflows in its fiscal third quarter.
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Threadneedle sells MM multi-management arm
UK - Threadneedle Asset Management has told its multi-management arm MM to Investment Manager Selection for an undisclosed price.
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Horeca to expand private equity
NETHERLANDS – Pensioenfonds Horeca & Catering, the €2bn Dutch hotel and catering industry fund, is looking at expanding its private equity coverage.
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Consultant Fideas launches with €300m
EUROPE - New consulting firm Fideas Capital has officially launched, with clients having entrusted €300m in assets.
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F&C sees €1.5bn for Citrine fund
UK – Asset manager F&C, which this week announced the departure of chief executive Howard Carter, says its Citrine hedge fund could go to €1.5bn.
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Uhlmann joins INDEXCHANGE board
GERMANY – European exchange traded funds leader, INDEXCHANGE Investment, has appointed dbi’s Thomas Uhlmann to its management board in a strategic strengthening of its international sales body.
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Russell predicts new alternative investing highs
GLOBAL – Hedge fund use by European institutions has increased dramatically in 2005. Their use by continental respondents to the Russell Investment Group’s seventh annual report on alternative investment the doubled to 48% from 24% in 2003.
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Threadneedle names UK institutional head
UK – Threadneedle Investments has named Madeline Forrester as its new head of UK institutional business, effective immediately.
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Dutch central bank sees no alpha move in FTK
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch central bank, the DNB, says the new FTK framework should not result in a massive move into so-called alpha generating investments by pension funds.
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Robeco sees “disappointing” asset inflow
NETHERLANDS – Robeco, the asset management arm of Rabobank, had a disappointing inflow of new assets in the first half of the year – hit by US outflows.
