All Alternatives articles – Page 151
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Common sense the touchstone
Hedge funds are on their way to become the next big thing in investment management. New funds start up every day, hedge funds are marketed aggressively to institutions and, under pressure to make up for recent losses, many institutional investors are showing serious interest. Many investors do not seem to ...
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Clearing the hurdles
One hundred per cent allocation to hedge funds? This is not as silly as some may think. If an institutional investor were to simply put hedge fund return data into their asset liability model, 100% may well be the answer. The risk return characteristics of hedge funds are so attractive, ...
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A bridge too far?
Institutional investors who view private equity generally as high risk may see investing in private equity in emerging markets as a bridge too far. The experience of the 1990s would only confirm this view as results have been disappointing in both absolute terms and also relative to private equity funds ...
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What the new laws allow
The Investmentmodernisierungsgesetz (InvModG – Act modernising investmentfund regulation) was set on its way in order to mirror the changes in the UCITS III Directive within the German investment law. This presented an opportunity that was taken, to replace the KAGG law in place since 1957 and the AIG law since ...
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Looking for better times ahead
While analysts seem to be fairly optimistic about global public equity markets, the same assumptions cannot be automatically made for the private equity sector. This sector is as dependent on the circumstances of individual companies as it is on general market sentiment, so it does not necessarily follow that either ...
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LGIM's institutional fund mgmt profit falls
UK – Legal & General says the operating profit of its institutional fund management arm LGIM fell to 80 million pounds (119.7 million euros) in 2003 from 92 million pounds in 2002, a decline of 13%.
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New IPE Real Estate publication launched
GLOBAL – IPE has launched a new quarterly publication, IPE Real Estate, to accompany the main monthly magazine.
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Goldman hires Morgan Stanley’s van Bezooyen
UK – Goldman Sachs has confirmed it has hired Morgan Stanley European pension executive Jeroen van Bezooyen.
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Lintstock launches governance site for pensions
UK - Research and advisory firm Lintstock has launched a service to help pension fund trustees handle information on asset managers’ governance and voting policies.
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DeAM names UK business section heads
UK – Deutsche Asset Management, the second largest manager of European pension assets, has named the heads of its seven new “business streams”.
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ABP, PGGM award extra E6bn to AlpInvest
NETHERLANDS – The two largest Dutch pension funds, ABP and PGGM, have awarded a further six billion euros to AlpInvest Partners, taking the former NIB Capital Private Equity’s total mandate to 20 billion euros.
