Hedge Funds – Page 6
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Features
Hedge funds: PFZW decision highlights divergent thinking
When Europe’s second-largest pension fund drops hedge funds and announces its new investment strategy will place greater emphasis on intelligibility, the industry takes note.
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News
PFZW drops hedge funds from strategic investment portfolio
Second-largest pension fund in Netherlands cites complexity, cost and SRI concerns
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Asset Class Reports
Investing in Hedge Funds: Uncut hedges
US pension giant CalPERS may have stopped investing in hedge funds, but despite heightened short-term scrutiny, Christopher O’Dea finds that most plans are retaining their allocations, and expecting them to deliver greater value through bespoke strategies
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Asset Class ReportsInvesting in Hedge Funds: Is the trend your friend?
Alex Greyserman looks at how trend-following at different speeds has fared in equity markets during the post-crisis bull market and over the longer term, and finds compelling diversification benefits
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Asset Class Reports
Investing In Hedge Funds: About turn for top-down
Macro, the darling of the hedge fund world through the drama of 2008-09, has struggled in the subsequent low-volatility, low-rates environment. Joseph Mariathasan asks whether recent outperformance signals a more conducive backdrop for this family of strategies
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News
IPE Awards: How should activist hedge funds behave? (video)
Craig Stevenson, senior investment consultant at Towers Watson, discusses where allocations to activist hedge funds should sit in pension fund portolios
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NewsNordic investors shun hedge funds in favour of risk premia strategies
Ilmarinen, PKA and ATP see benefits in strategies that emulate hedge funds over commitment to asset class
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Asset Class Reports
In-house strategies offer greater advantages
On The Record: Do you use external hedge funds?
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AnalysisAnalysis: Hedge funds brace for CalPERS fallout
Hedge funds are facing a ‘critical period’ in wake of US pension fund’s decision to divest from asset class, writes Christopher O’Dea
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News
Dutch giant PMT to divest holdings in 'expensive' hedge funds
Pension fund to drop €1bn hedge fund allocation in favour of investments in local residential mortgages
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News
Hedge funds should be partners, say AIMA and Barclays
Leading investors focusing on knowledge-sharing, co-investment and customisation, says report
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News
Hedge funds shift attention towards creating ‘institutional credibility’
Industry moving to assuage fears over operational risk, Aite Group survey shows
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Features
Haggling with the hedge funds
For this month’s Focus Group Survey, we asked 19 readers about hedge funds.
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Not just a lion at the gate
Liongate Capital Management understood from day one that hedge fund investing was more what you know than who you know. Ten years later, Martin Steward reports on how this became the institutional mainstream – and where it is going next
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Fit for use
Craig Baker sets out six areas for improvement in the institutional fund of hedge funds model
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Bottom-up on the up
Changes in market behaviour have created an alpha-rich environment that is great for stockpickers and dangerous for market-timers, write Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Not such black boxes
David Turner looks at how transparency has improved in the hedge fund world, and what pension funds are doing to adapt to all the new information
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: “We ask investors what they like”
After almost 10 years of talking to hedge fund managers, this is a first. Erich Schlaikjer, co-founder of the Cambridge, UK-based systematic managed futures specialist Cantab Capital, is showing me what his firm’s trading and research systems can do.
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Small is beautiful, again
Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward note that smaller hedge funds are enjoying significant new inflows for the first time since the financial crisis. Where is the money coming from?
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NewsDutch hedge funds lose 3.4% over third quarter – DNB
Local hedge funds’ assets contract by nearly 3%, watchdog says
