All Alternatives articles – Page 106
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Warwickshire to put 10% into alternatives
UK - Warwickshire County Council has tendered for up to £100m (€148m) in real estate and fund of hedge funds for the £1bn Warwickshire Pension Fund.
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Somerset awards currency brief to Record
UK – The £960m (€1.4bn) Somerset County Council Pension Fund has awarded Record Currency Management a currency hedging mandate.
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German institutions eye structured, private equity
GERMANY – Pension funds and insurers are planning more investment in alternatives this year and next, but will only award mandates for structured products and private equity, according to a new survey by German consultant Heissmann.
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ABP and PGGM to invest in carbon reduction
NETHERLANDS - The large pension funds ABP and PGGM will invest €275m and €200m respectively in carbon trading and technology to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, they have announced.
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NPRF invests €44m in property fund
IRELAND – Ireland’s National Pensions Reserve Fund is to invest £30m (€44m) in specialist property fund The Mall as part of its €135m commitment to real estate.
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ABP quant head Gupta joins UK’s Pearl Group
EUROPE – Pranay Gupta, head of global quantitative strategies - capital markets at ABP Investments, has become the latest figure from the Dutch pension giant to join the Pearl Group.
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Europe’s investors ‘in love’ with finance stocks
EUROPE – European investors have a “love affair with finance stocks” says Merrill Lynch Investment Manager’s David Bowers, following the firm’s September fund manager survey.
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Swedes and Dutch scrutinise private equity funds’ role
EUROPE – A week before general elections, the Swedish government has raised concerns about private equity fund Cevian’s investment approach in Volvo.
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Man Group CEO Fink to step down
UK – Stanley Fink is to step down as chief executive of Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund group, and be replaced by finance director Peter Clarke as from April 1 next year.
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Van Lanschot targets institutions with Kempen bid
NETHERLANDS – Dutch private bank Van Lanschot is looking to increase its institutional reach with a €300m takeover bid for independent Dutch merchant bank Kempen.
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CEE: Exceptional growth
CENTRAL EUROPE - Central and Eastern Europe's second-pillar pension funds recorded exceptional year-on-year growth in 2005, well ahead of the rise in numbers of clients, despite their relatively conservative investment strategies. There have also been relatively few changes in the rankings compared with 2004. There were no changes in the ...
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Netherlands: Interesting times
NETHERLANDS - There's an old Chinese curse that says 'may you live in interesting times'. It might have been coined for the Dutch pensions industry. "All times are interesting, especially for Dutch pension funds," says Jeroen Steenvoorden, director of pension fund for self-employed medical specialists SPMS. "There is so much ...
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UK: General trend into bonds
UK - Recent years have seen a general trend within the UK pensions industry from equities into bonds, according to Joanne Segars, incoming chief executive at the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss foundation tenders real estate
REAL ESTATE – A Swiss investment foundation has tendered $100m+ (€78m) in global passively managed publicly traded real estate via IPE-Quest.
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CSAM names European pensions group MD
EUROPE - Credit Suisse Asset Management has appointed Paul Bourdon as managing director of its newly created European Pension Solutions Group.
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“Vast weight” of institutional real estate cash
UK – There’s a “vast weight” of institutional cash chasing commercial real estate in the UK, according to warehouse property firm Brixton.
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Big UK schemes warm to private equity
UK – Representatives of some of the largest UK pension funds have come out in favour of private equity as an asset class – though they say a “new professionalism” is needed.
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Clayton joins Pension Real Estate Association
REAL ESTATE – The Pension Real Estate Association has named James Clayton as its new Director of Research as of today (September 1).
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Bexley, Lincolnshire name new managers
UK – The Bexley and Lincolnshire local authority pension funds have separately named new asset managers.
