Hedge Funds – Page 9
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NewsPerTrac study shows hedge funds recovering, consolidating
Study also appears to confirm shift away from funds of funds toward direct allocation.
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NewsGovernance has become 'crucial' to hedge funds' investment process – USS
Says in AIMA's investor preference guide that financial crisis served as catalyst.
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Special Report
Top 400: Hedge funds coming of age
The credit crunch is forcing a reckless teenager to become a responsible adult, according to Amin Rajan
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NewsHedge funds improve risk/return ratios for pension insurance firms
Research for Finnish Centre for Pensions says regulators must become better educated about asset class.
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IP Asia
Japan's tsunami and its impact on hedge funds
Richard Johnston assesses how fund managers were able to respond to the market effects of Japan’s recent disaster situation.
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NewsUK pension fund allocates 10% of portfolio to hedge funds
Additional funds – £10m each to Blackstone and Fauchier – come on top of existing 9.6% allocation.
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Hedge funds outperform S&P 500 over three years
EUROPE – The majority of hedge funds delivered better returns than the S&P 500 index over a three-year period, according to latest figures by EDHEC Business School.
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Into the mainstream
The hedge fund industry’s operational infrastructure and client base has become increasingly institutionalised and its investment practices continue to converge with those of traditional asset managers, writes Todd Groome
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Managed managed futures
What value can a fund of funds add for the managed futures investor? Martin Steward asks Thomas Weber of LGT Capital Partners, whose Crown Managed Futures fund is celebrating its tenth birthday
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: The view from the Hilltop
Martin Steward talks to Rory Hills about what went wrong with the fund of hedge funds industry – and about how to put it right
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Making the illiquid liquid
The secondary market in hedge funds is on the rise as investors snap up illiquid portfolios coming onto the market, says Martin Steward
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Asset Class ReportsHedge Funds: Rehabilitated
Since assets under management crashed during the financial crisis the hedge fund industry has experienced a phoenix-like revival in fortunes. But Joseph Mariathasan finds that it is far from back to business as usual
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Hedge funds and the crisis
Citi Prime Services canvassed the opinions of hedge funds and hedge fund investors on the impact from and response to the liquidity crisis of 2007-08, and to gauge its longer-term implications for the sector. Sandy Kaul discusses the findings
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Angling for alpha: pension funds talk hedge funds
When he isn’t managing the alpha traders at Denmark’s state pension fund, ATP Alpha CEO Fredrik Martinsson likes nothing better than to get out with his rod and line – so it’s no surprise that he reaches for an angling metaphor to explain his understanding of alpha.
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NewsUK NEST rules out infrastructure, hedge funds for immediate future
UK – The UK National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has ruled out any direct investments in infrastructure, commodities and high yield in its first few years of existence.
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NewsASIP members dump hedge funds, return 0% in H1
SWITZERLAND – The median return of a selection of 68 member funds of ASIP, the Swiss Pensionskassen association, was 0% for the first six months of 2010, according to Towers Watson.
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NewsInstitutional investors to flock to hedge funds in next 12 months
GLOBAL - Hedge fund providers are set for a bumper year as one-third of institutional investors revealed plans to increase allocations to the asset class, industry research revealed.
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NewsSwitzerland's BLVK dumps hedge funds, hedges euro
SWITZERLAND – The CHF5bn (€3.7bn) BLVK Pensionskasse for the teachers in the Swiss capital of Bern has been "unconvinced" by the performance of hedge funds and is therefore liquidating the mandate as part of a minor revision to its strategic asset allocation (SAA).
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Unipension drops hedge funds over lack of diversification
DENMARK - Unipension, the administration company managing some DKK80bn (€11bn) for Denmark's Architects’ Pension Fund (AP), the Pension Fund for Danish MAs, MScs and PhDs (MP) and the Pension Fund for Agricultural Academics and Veterinary Surgeons (PJD), is divesting from its fund of hedge fund investments.
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Equities and hedge funds boost Finland’s Fennia
[15:00 CET 25-01] FINLAND – Preliminary results for Pension Fennia, one of the largest pension insurance providers in Finland, revealed equities returned a massive 33.7% on investments while hedge funds delivered 16.4% in 2009.
