All Alternatives articles – Page 167
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UK's Close Bros expands private equity team
UK – Close Brothers Private Equity, private equity arm of the UK merchant bank Close Brothers Group, has hired two new investment managers as the private equity business has taken off, expanding the team’s headcount to 13.
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Calpers private equity performance faces scrutiny
US - Calpers, the US’s largest public pension fund, may have to reveal the performance data and stocks of its 20 billion dollars of private equity investments, after making the information secret last year.
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Hedge funds see steady stream of interest - report
US - Institutions are showing a steady stream of interest in investing in hedge funds, according to new research by industry tracking outfit Tass.
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US firms face $80bn pension shortfall - report
US - Goldman Sachs estimates that US companies will have to raise their contributions to defined benefits pension plans by 80 billion dollars (79.67 billion euros) per year.
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Goldman asset management staff rises 8%
LONDON - Despite what it terms “difficult markets”, Goldman Sachs’ asset management division in Europe now has 8% more asset managers than a year ago, though Goldman was unable to provide headcount numbers.
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Allianz Dresdner boosts alternative offering
UK - Allianz Dresdner Asset Management says it has formed a single manager hedge fund division in a bid to boost its alternative investment business.
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Pioneer completes Momentum acquisition
ITALY - Unicredito Italiano’s Pioneer Global Asset management unit has completed its previously announced 110 billion dollar (109.6 million euro) acquisition of hedge fund company momentum group. Pioneer says the move strengthens its position in the alternative investments market.
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Finland: discretionary management to rise
FINLAND - Around 20% of Finnish institutional investors say they will increase their use of discretionary and mutual fund management by the end of 2004, according to an industry report released in November by Scandinavian Financial Research (SFR).
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AP3 and Boots win top IPE awards
NETHERANDS - Sweden’s AP3 and the UK’s Boots were named the best European pension funds for their investment strategy at the second annual IPE European pensions industry awards last night in Amsterdam.
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GSAM names new fixed income and currency boss
EUROPE- Goldman Sachs Asset Management has named Philip Moffitt as the new co-head of the London-based global fixed income and currency team alongside Andrew Wilson. Moffit joined Goldman Sachs three years ago as a senior portfolio manager in the currency team.
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European funds using more US managers
EUROPE - European pension funds are using more non-domestic managers – in particular US-based ones, according to a report by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Of the top 20 managers of European pension funds, 15 listed the US as one of their home countries.
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Essex takes specialist route for e2.35bn fund
UK - Essex County Council has restructured its £1.5bn (e2.35bn) pension fund resulting in eight new specialist mandates, and costing Merrill Lynch its balanced active mandate.
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BGI launches Europe equity neutral fund
UK - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has launched a European equity market neutral fund, aimed at hedge fund of fund providers, institutional investors and family offices.
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US private equity firm Advent opens in Spain
SPAIN- US private equity firm, Advent International, is opening an advisory office in Madrid. Jaime Carvajal Urquijo, Juan Díaz-Laviada and Luis Camilleri will be heading up the operation.
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Pioneer France names head of institutional clients
FRANCE- Pioneer Investments (France) has appointed Astrid Lubin to the new position of head of institutional clients for France. She will be responsible for the promotion and development of alternative investments and will be based in Paris.
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Dublin surge
Assets in alternative investment funds domiciled in Dublin have increased to $10.8bn from $3.1bn one year ago, according to investment fund research company Fitzrovia International. Fitzrovia highlights the attraction of Dublin as a centre for cash funds with fund assets rising by 60% to $117.3 bn from $73.2bn one year ...
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Turning down the volume
Pension funds and their consultants are wary of hedge funds, largely because they cannot pigeonhole them into any of the traditional asset classes, and therefore find them difficult to benchmark. As a result, they have tended to approach them through the multi-manager route, rather than directly. By apportioning a mandate ...
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AP7 completes search for Private equity managers
SWEDEN- Sweden’s seventh national pension fund, AP7, has allocated $84m (e86m) to two US-based private equity fund of fund managers, Hamilton Lane Advisors and HarbourVest Partners. Hamilton Lane will be managing a US private equity fund of fund portfolio balanced between buyout, venture and special situation funds including secondary interests. ...
