All Alternatives articles – Page 105
-
News
Big European funds: ‘We want skilled managers’
EUROPE – Some of Europe’s largest pension funds have acknowledged that the search for alpha – market outperformance - is a search for skills.
-
News
Gwynedd scheme to put 5% into private equity
UK – The £741m (€1.1bn) Gwynedd council pension fund is looking to invest in private equity via fund of fund managers to help address its £129m deficit.
-
News
Cornwall awards currency brief to Mellon
UK - Cornwall County Council’s Cornwall Pension Fund has awarded a £175m (€258m) currency mandate to Mellon Capital.
-
News
DNB study: Dutch funds to use more derivatives
NETHERLANDS – A paper from Dutch pension regulator De Nederlandsche Bank sees derivatives and asset liability management becoming more important for pension funds.
-
Features
A growing appetite
Contrary to the negative impression given by the German financial press private equity investment in Germany is becoming more popular, according to new research.Francesco di Valmarana and Joanna Jordan look at the numbers
-
News
Dutch painters tap MLIM for swaps
NETHERLANDS – A&O Services, which runs the €3.2bn Dutch painters pension fund BPF Schilders, has chosen Merrill Lynch Investment Managers to implement a €1.4bn swap and swaptions overlay programme.
-
News
Dutch funds’ appetite for microfinance grows
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension schemes have an appetite for microfinance initiatives, according to microfinance investment manager Blue Orchard.
-
News
Hermes’ Anson queries private equity fees
UK – Hermes Pensions Management chief executive Mark Anson has called for lower private equity fees, according to reports.
-
News
Pensions driving tenfold rise in swaps – Barclays
UK – Pension fund demand is behind a tenfold increase in inflation-linked swaps activity at Barclays Capital, executives say.
-
News
GSAM-backed pension academy launches
UK – The Westminster Business School’s Pension Investment Academy today with backing from Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
-
News
Hewitt’s Duff attacks real estate managers
REAL ESTATE - Most real estate fund managers aren’t fit for purpose, according to Nick Duff, real estate partner at Hewitt Associates. [This story first appeared on IPERealEstate.com.]
-
News
Norway state fund rejects real estate before 2007
REAL ESTATE - The Norwegian finance ministry says moving into real estate “just isn’t a priority” for the Government Pension Fund, despite reports of an imminent 8-10% allocation.
-
News
Lewisham considers alternative assets
UK – The £505m (€752m) London Borough of Lewisham pension fund is the next in line planning to go into alternative investments.
-
News
Cambridge tenders €44m currency brief
UK - Cambridgeshire County Council has tendered a £30m (€44.7m) currency mandate.
-
News
KEVA, AlpInvest in Polish private equity move
POLAND – Finland’s KEVA and the Dutch pension fund-owned AlpInvest are among the institutional backers of a new Polish private equity fund.
-
News
Horeca taps SPF for €40m private equity brief
NETHERLANDS – Pensioenfonds Horeca & Catering, the €2bn Dutch hotel and catering scheme, has awarded SPF Beheer with a €40m private equity mandate, as part of its 5% weighting target in the asset class.
-
News
TIAA-CREF puts $100m into microfinance
GLOBAL – US educational retirement savings group TIAA-CREF has earmarked $100m (€78.8m) to invest in so-called microfinance initiatives.
-
News
Henderson buys infrastructure firm Laing
UK – Henderson has had a £886.9m (€1.3bn) offer to buy infrastructure and construction firm John Laing accepted.
-
News
USS in central Europe real estate move
EUROPE – The £26bn (€38.5bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme, the pension fund for university staff, has made a move to increase it central European real estate holdings.
-
News
ATP planning US real estate investment
DENMARK – The DKK371.5bn (€50bn) Danish supplementary pension scheme ATP is looking at real estate investments in the US.
