Hedge Funds – Page 17
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Parliament gets to work on hedge funds
With the summer break now over, the legislative machine at Brussels has started to crank back into life. On the slate is a directive aimed at pinning down transparency. Also in the pipeline are a consultation on pensions mobility and the directive on investment services. But perhaps the most interesting ...
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Bringing hedge funds in from the cold
The current discussion in Germany about the deregulation of the hedge fund industry highlights an important issue faced by retail and institutional investors: how to find investments that can weather not only difficult market conditions but also offer potential for attractive future returns? The past three years have shown that ...
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Put 5-10% into hedge funds - ex-Watson partner
UK – Former Watson Wyatt partner and senior investment consultant Stephen Oxley says pension funds should allocate between five and 10 percent to hedge funds.
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Corporate pension funds seen eyeing hedge funds
EUROPE – Corporate pension funds are changing their thinking about hedge funds, prompted by pension obligations being treated as debt, according to a new report by Morgan Stanley.
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Shropshire moves into hedge funds
UK – Shropshire County Council has announced a change in its pension fund benchmark with greater allocation to bonds and the introduction of a hedge fund portfolio.
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France’s COB gives green light to hedge funds of funds
FRANCE – The fund of hedge fund market in France is expected to grow now that it is to receive formal regulation by the French regulator, Commission des Operations de Bourse (COB).
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Pioneer to offer hedge funds in UK
UK – Pioneer Investments, UniCredito’s fund management arm, is to offer its range of hedge funds to UK institutional investors.
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Position data compromises hedge funds - survey
GLOBAL – The disclosure of detailed position-level data is seen as compromising the performance of hedge funds, according to a new survey by Capital Market Risk Advisors and the International Association of Financial Engineers.
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Get to grips with hedge funds
‘More talk than action’ is a comment often made during discussions about hedge funds for European pension funds. In this article, I would like to present the perspective of a pension fund trustee on this topic. The conclusion will be, in short, that the debate about the use of hedge ...
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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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Hedge funds get guarded welcome
Hedge funds now represent a small but significant part of the portfolios of some of Sweden’s foundations. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Reseach (SSF) took its first tentative steps into hedge funds last year. Bjorn Brandt, director of administration at SSF says: “To diversify foundation assets and obtain a performance ...
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Hedge funds: an asset class and a new management model
An objective to generate absolute return During the past 20 years, two types of asset management developed simultaneously, but with different aims. On one hand, the global equity bull market enabled the classic asset management to evolve in a less sophisticated manner, since the achievements were measured through simple benchmarks ...
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LSE defends Hedge funds in shorting row
UK- The London Stock Exchange has contested recent criticism that aggressive short selling, particularly by hedge funds, is to blame for recent equity market volatility. The challenge follows complaints from companies which have led the Bank of England to consider ways of increasing the disclosure of securities lending activities.
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Swiss fund to allocate 3% to hedge funds
SWITZERLAND – The SFr 4.6bn (€3.2bn) Bernische Lehrerversicherungskasse (BVLK), the pension and insurance fund for teachers in the Swiss canton of Berne, is to allocate 3% of its assets to hedge funds to help it achieve its long-term goal of 6.6% returns and to make up for poor overall performance ...
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DKR launches two Irish-listed hedge funds
IRELAND– DKR Capital has launched two funds, the DKR Relative Value and the DKR Relative Value Plus, which will be listed on the Irish stock exchange and targeted at European institutional investors.
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AMEX announces new fund of hedge funds
US/SWITZERLAND – American Express Bank (AEB) has launched its third fund of hedge funds, the global market neutral conservative fund of funds portfolio....
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Man launches new capital guaranteed hedge funds
EUROPE – International alternative investment management company, Man Investment Products (MIP), has launched its latest capital guaranteed product, Man Multi-Strategy Series 3 Ltd, which will be available in both US$ and Euro class bonds....
