All articles by Gail Moss – Page 48
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Alternatives make gradual headway
The take-up of alternatives as an asset class remains relatively weak despite one or two high profile exceptions to the rule, writes Gail Moss
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Facing up to a harsher future
Gail Moss reports on how investment houses are preparing for the new financial framework due to come into force in January 2007
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Alternatives making a little headway
In Italy, investment rules for each pension fund differ according to what type of legal regime it falls into. The most recent funds, formed under the 1993 pensions law, cannot in general invest in alternatives – they can only do so via harmonised mutual funds linked to traditional asset classes. ...
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German investors' gradual awakening
German pension funds are still trailing behind many of their European counterparts in terms of investing in alternatives. “Pension funds still have a very limited exposure to private equity, with an allocation of less than 1% of total pension fund assets,” says Christian Edelmann, senior project manager, Mercer Oliver Wyman ...
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Dipping a toe in the water
Investing in alternative assets by French pension funds is still not common. “This is generally due to a poor understanding of alternative betas and especially the restrictive regulations,” says Noel Amenc, professor of finance and director of the Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Other observers point to the ...
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Gearing up for global note
Four European institutions have launched an awareness campaign to prepare issuers and their agents for a new legal and holding structure for international debt securities, to be launched in June. The changeover to the new structure is being driven by EU monetary policy. The New Global Note (NGN) is a ...
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Leading from the front
The €11bn private equity mandate awarded by Dutch pension funds ABP and PGGM to AlpInvest Partners has taken Dutch institutional investment in the asset class to a whole new level. But will this kick-start a renewed interest by other Dutch pension funds - particularly the smaller ones - in private ...
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For all the right reasons
When the French Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) launched a manager selection process for its private equity programme last December, it was embarking on the next stage of an ambitious strategy which may well form a blueprint for other first-time investors in this asset class. The FRR, a ...
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News
Suomi offloads Pohjola shares
FINLAND - Suomi Mutual Life and Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance have completed the sale of their stake in the Pohjola Group to OKO Bank.
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ABN AMRO boosts hedge funds business with IAM buy
UK - ABN AMRO is buying the fund of hedge funds manager International Asset Management (IAM) in order to strengthen its own fund of hedge funds offerings.
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Outperformance hat-trick by Dutch pension funds
NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds have achieved above-average returns for the third year in succession, according to WM Performance Services, the investment performance measurement business.
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Gilt yields crash gives UK funds deficit problem
UK - British pension funds are facing gaping pension deficits because of record falls in longer-dated index-linked UK bond yields over the past week.
