All Alternatives articles – Page 90
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Features
Assessing the strategic case
John Bonaccolta asks whether the asset class provides appropriate performance and diversification characteristics for institutions
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News
HSBC bank scheme names new managers
[17:01 CEST 29-06] UK – The £10.5bn (€15.6bn) HSBC Bank UK pension scheme has appointed Ashmore and AXA Investment Management in a portfolio revamp.
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News
Devon heads down the infrastructure route
[16:25 CEST 25-06] UK – The £2bn (€3bn) Devon County Council Pension Fund is making its first foray into infrastructure via a new UBS vehicle.
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Pension fund alternatives reach €445bn
[16:21 CEST 25-06] GLOBAL - Almost $600bn (€445bn) of global ‘alternative’ assets are invested by pension funds through the world’s top 99 alternative asset managers, a study by Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting has concluded.
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News
IPE-QUEST: $50m hedge fund strategy mandate
[11:00 CEST 25-06] EUROPE – A continental European pension fund is looking for an active global equity market neutral manager, using IPE Quest.
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News
Parliament seeks trustee advice
[16:09 CEST 19-06] UK – Trustees of the £280m (€414m) Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund of the House of Commons are looking for investment advice.
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News
Private equity markets to fall, warns Munsters
[17:20 CEST 18-06] NETHERLANDS – Roderick Munsters, chief investment officer at the giant Dutch pension fund ABP, says there are opportunities to be had in declining private equity markets.
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News
Schroders named as Shetland manager
[12:57 CEST 14-06] UK – The Shetland Islands Council has named Schroders as the manager awarded a £20m (€29.6m) UK property mandate.
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Features
The rise of alternative alternatives
As investors discover all that glisters is not gold, long-only asset classes are becoming the new alternatives, Amin Rajan discovers
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Features
Should I start an Asian hedge fund?
Paul Smith has some sound advice for anyone thinking that idea sounds like fun
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Features
Who makes the grade in Asia?
In the first of two articles, Debra Ng of Albourne Partners summarises hedge fund due diligence process around the region, based on the group's research
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News
German managers "at disadvantage" in commodities and LDI - Fitch
[13:17 CEST 13-06] GERMANY – Asset managers in Germany are at a competitive disadvantage to interloping foreign houses in the commodities and liability-driven investments (LDI) markets, Fitch Ratings has claimed.
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News
Pension fund interest in private equity rises 26%
[16:51 CEST 12-06] EUROPE – Private equity firms in Europe raised a record sum of €112bn in 2006, an increase of 56.4% from the year before, and pension funds contributed more than ever to this growth.
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Flurry of alternatives services emerge
[16:53 CEST 07/06] GLOBAL - Asset management houses are rushing to cater to European pension fund demand for alternative investments, with the launch of several new funds and services.
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FRR chooses three more for private equity
[17:03 CEST 06/06] FRANCE – The €32bn Fonds de réserves pour les retraites (FRR) has awarded mandates to Pantheon Ventures, Access Capital Partners and Lehman Brothers International Europe.
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Credit Suisse to diversify LDI into euros
[10:55 CEST 06/06] EUROPE - Credit Suisse is expanding its liability driven investment offering into the European pensions sector with the launch of a Euro Diversified Growth LDI fund later this summer.
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Special Report
The new liquid gold
In the search for an asset that yields close to that of equities, biofuels could provide interesting investment opportunities. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Special Report
Down to the woods
For those investors prepared for the long haul, timberland has proved to be a stable, long-term investment with good annual returns. Nina Röhrbein reports
