All Alternatives articles – Page 99
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USS buys into Bulgarian real estate developer
REAL ESTATE – The £26bn (€38.5bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme, the pension fund for university staff, has made a move to increase it Eastern European real estate holdings.
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PGGM looking to expanding SRI team
NETHERLANDS – The €77bn (£52bn) Dutch healthcare scheme PGGM is looking to expand its responsible investment team with senior advisors, the fund said.
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Cambridge University names CIO for €1.8bn
UK – The University of Cambridge has named Man Global Strategies’ Nick Cavalla as its first chief investment officer - to oversee more than £1.2bn (€1.8bn).
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Unilever sets up pension hedge fund vehicle
GLOBAL – Unilever’s pension funds in 42 countries will soon be able to invest into funds of hedge funds via a vehicle created by Unilever Investments (Univest).
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Warning over €58bn of univested buyout funds
EUROPE – There was a warning today from mezzanine finance specialist Intermediate Capital Group that the European private equity buyout market, with some €58bn of uninvested funds, is overheating.
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Management accountants warn on LDI risk
UK – The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants has warned that adopting a Liability Driven Investing strategy could mean missing out on excess return.
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Row over PMT’s involvement in hedge funds
NETHERLANDS – Dutch trade union FNV is demanding that PMT, the €30bn Dutch pension scheme for metalworking and mechanical engineering, withdraw its investments from Paulson, the activist hedge fund.
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ABP’s role at real estate firm Corio queried
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension giant ABP risks being drawn into a row over the management of real estate firm Corio, in which it has a 39% stake.
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McCreevy slams “myth” of unregulated hedge funds
EUROPE – Charlie McCreevy, the European Commission’s Internal Markets Commissioner, has attacked what he says is the myth that hedge funds are not regulated.
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Pension funds behind venture capital boom – EVCA
EUROPE – Pension funds provided 43% of a considerable increase in venture capital fundraising last year, according to a new report by the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EVCA).
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Finland’s VER goes hedge fund shopping with €2bn
FINLAND – Thanks to the good financial situation of the €8.3bn Finnish state pension fund VER, parliament has decided to inject €1.9bn into the fund by year-end 2007.
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Cordares eyes international property pooling
REAL ESTATE - Pensions provider Cordares says it’s considering setting up direct real estate pooled funds with pension funds abroad as a way to diversify risks.
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More evidence of interest-rate swaps demand
UK – Further evidence of the growth in the interest-rate swap market - boosted at least in part by pension fund demand - came today with figures from brokerage firm ICAP.
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Real estate ripe says Schroders' Brown
REAL ESTATE – The real estate market is “ripe” for a more global investment approach, says Schroders’ investment chief Alan Brown.
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JP Morgan wins $30bn in UK custody mandates
UK – JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services says it has bagged more than $30bn (€23.4bn, £15.8bn) of new UK pension fund custody assets in the last six months.
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Bedfordshire scheme seeds new currency fund
UK – The Bedfordshire County Council Pension Fund has seeded FX Concepts’ new currency fund targeted at UK local authorities.
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Pension funds behind interest-rate swaps surge
EUROPE – The Bank for International Settlements says interest-rate swaps activity surged in the first half of 2006 – with analysts putting it down to pension fund interest.
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Accountants urge trustee caution with hedge funds
UK – The head of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has advised pension fund trustees to “proceed with caution” when it comes to investing in hedge funds.
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Environment Agency awards €649m FX mandate
UK – The Environment Agency says it has awarded a total of £440m (€649m) in currency mandates to Informed Portfolio Management.
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AP7 hopes to find “pure alpha” by January
SWEDEN – The SEK80bn (€8.8bn) Swedish buffer fund AP7, Sjunde AP-fonden, is closing in on its “pure alpha” plans, according executive vice president Richard Grottheim.
