All Alternatives articles – Page 130
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France’s FRR calls managers to SRI meeting
FRANCE – The €19.6bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund, is planning to meet asset managers about socially responsible investing later this month.
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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.
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Inarcassa CEO Tosi joins alternatives house
ITALY - Paolo Tosi, chief executive of Inarcassa, the €3bn pension fund for self-employed architects and engineers, has left the fund to join alternatives group Kairos Partners.
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MN Services changes management structure
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension manager MN Services has named Wouter Pelser as co-head of asset management in a bid to enhance efficiency.
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Railpen hires former Lane Clark consultant
UK - Railpen Investments, which manages £15bn (€22.6bn) of pension assets for the UK rail industry, has hired a former consultant from Lane Clark & Peacock as senior investment manager.
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Handbook flags directive’s impact on hedge funds
IRELAND – The European savings directive on the funds industry will have an impact on Hedge funds and hedge fund of funds, according to a handbook from Dublin- and London-based funds consultancy Carne Global Financial Services.
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Hedge funds own 3.8% of UK market – SSGA
UK – State Street Global Advisors says it estimates that hedge funds own around 3.8% of the UK equity market.
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Deutsche hires UBS exec for hedge fund marketing
EUROPE – Deutsche Bank says it has hired a marketing executive from UBS as head of European distribution for its Deutsche Asset Management arm’s absolute return strategies unit.
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South Yorkshire scheme loses team member
UK – The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority, which manages £2.7bn (€4bn) of assets, is looking for an investment manager following the departure of one of its six-strong investment team.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch scheme tenders portable alpha
NETHERLANDS – A Dutch investment consultant has tendered a multi-asset class portable alpha mandate worth at least €15m via IPE-Quest.
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France's FRR names private equity consultant
FRANCE - The €19.6bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund has named a consultant to help it choose private equity managers.
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ING buys Slovakia pension fund for €35m
SLOVAKIA – Dutch banking group ING has signed an agreement to buy Slovakian private pension fund VSP Tatry Sympatica for €35m.
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Pension funds pull €1.6bn from Liontrust
UK – Pension funds pulled £1.1bn (€1.6bn) from equity specialist Liontrust Asset Management in the year to the end of March – hit by a move towards hedge funds.
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Volkswagen Pension Trust in revamp (Update)
GERMANY - Volkswagen Pension Trust, the pension fund for the German car giant, has completed a sweeping revamp of the way its €1.5bn in pension assets are invested (Updates with clarification, fresh edit).
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Absolute returns harder to find?
In theory, hedge funds are all about delivering absolute returns – finding the elusive alpha. Until now, it has been universally accepted that the objective of a hedge fund is to provide positive absolute returns over a medium-term investment horizon irrespective of market environment and traditional market performance. But in ...
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Case for active style allocation
Although 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 solution ...
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Alpha: looking in wrong place?
Institutional investors coping with a low-return environment have recently been pouring unprecedented amounts of capital into hedge funds. The stated motives for doing so vary, but are all rooted in the search for higher expected returns. Some point to the track records of hedge funds during the recent bear market ...
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Over a barrel
The world has become accustomed to increased crude oil prices in recent years. But while most oil analysts ascribe the major price upsets to factors inherent to the crude oil market, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has put part of the blame on the speculative role of pension ...
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Belgium starts to warm up
As a nation, Belgium comes way down the list of private equity investors in Europe. In 2003, the latest year for which figures are available, private equity investments equalled only 0.1% of gross domestic product, according to the European Venture Capital Association. That was less than half the European average ...
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Fear of a bubble unfounded
The global hedge fund market has grown at a rate of circa 20% over the last four years, total assets under management reaching an estimated $1trn (e793bn) by year-end 2004. Inflows did slow, however, during the second half of 2004, not least because of the comparatively modest performance experienced in ...
