A single manager approach but wide net to cast

By IPE staffDecember 2007 (Magazine)

Investing in hedge funds requires specific skills and careful monitoring. Pension schemes usually use hedge funds to ensure a robust diversification and the safest and perhaps easiest method of investing in this increasingly common alternative is through funds of funds. But for Ilmarinen, Finland’s €23bn multi-employer scheme, which has 3% or €750m of its overall portfolio in hedge funds, that is no longer enough.