All Alternatives articles – Page 127
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Traditional markets bullish
As can be seen from table 1, all hedge fund strategies except for convertible arbitrage posted positive performance in May. Consequently, three out of five strategies now show positive year-to-date returns, as opposed to two in April. Most traditional markets (for example , stocks, bonds, commodities) were bullish in May, ...
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Investment boost to innovation
APK Pensionskasse is a multi-employer pension fund with around 65,000 members. It manages 20 plans, the plan sponsors typically being industrial corporations. APK runs e1.8bn of plan assets, with about 1% of the portfolio invested in private equity. The pension fund has been investing in the asset class since 2001. ...
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Law change backs pension funds
Austrian pension funds and private equity are not an obvious fit. For a start - in terms of private equity investing as a whole - Austria comes near the bottom of the European league. Just 0.051% of Austrian gross domestic product was invested in private equity in 2003, the latest ...
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Case for active style allocation
Al though the existing literature seems to concur on the interest of hedge funds as valuable investment alternatives, there seem to be several shortcomings in current industry practice when it comes to fully capitalising on the advantages of including hedge funds in an investor’s asset allocation. So far, the only ...
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Fortis opens sales office in Frankfurt
GERMANY - Fortis has opened a sales office in Frankfurt to offer a range of fund services to asset managers specialising in both traditional and asset classes.
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Central banks query hedge fund diversification
GLOBAL – The Bank for International Settlements, the central banks’ central bank, says fund managers’ claims about the diversification benefits of hedge funds may be overstated.
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Citigroup exits asset management business
GLOBAL – Citigroup has confirmed it is exiting the asset management business in a $3.7bn (€3.1bn) deal with Legg Mason.
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Henderson names Germany sales head
GERMANY - Henderson Global Investors has named Uwe Diehl to head of sales for Germany and Austria.
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Asset managers want hedge fund tax debate
UK – The UK’s asset management trade body has called for a debate about the tax position of hedge funds.
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HSBC gets Italian alternatives custody OK
ITALY – HSBC says it has received approval to open a custody operation for alternative investment funds in Milan.
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Morgan Stanley asset management profit slips 16%
GLOBAL – Second-quarter pre-tax income at Morgan Stanley Investment Management fell 16% to $175m (€144m) from $209m a year before.
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Watson’s Urwin doubts hedge fund capacity
GLOBAL – Roger Urwin, global head of investment consulting at Watson Wyatt, says the performance of fund of hedge funds is “in doubt” due to a lack of capacity at some of the managers.
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Allianz fund arm makes US disposal
GERMANY - Allianz Global Investors has sold Cadence Capital, a US institutional fund manager, to Cadence’s management and an outside private equity firm for an undisclosed sum.
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West Midlands scheme recruiting two managers
UK – The £5.4bn (€8.07bn) West Midlands Pension Fund is looking for two internal equity investment managers following an internal restructuring.
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Varma’s capital markets chief Kuusisto resigns
FINLAND - Petri Kuusisto, director of capital markets at Finnish pension insurance company Varma, is to resign and be replaced by Mikko Koivusalo.
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Dutch system seen as global pension leader
NETHERLANDS – “The Dutch pensions industry had come from being a virtually unknown pension power 10 years ago, to being the global pension revolution leader today,” said Keith Ambachtsheer, academic and strategic adviser to pension plans.
