All Alternatives articles – Page 108
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ABP affiliate buys San Francisco office block
REAL ESTATE – A real estate firm co-owned by Dutch pension fund ABP and State Street has bought an office block in San Francisco.
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Alternatives make gradual headway
The take-up of alternatives as an asset class remains relatively weak despite one or two high profile exceptions to the rule, writes Gail Moss
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Knowing what lies behind hedge funds
Dutch pension funds’ growing interest in alternatives like hedge funds is having an impact on the middle and back offices of securities services providers, says Heather Mackenzie
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IPE-QUEST: Danish fund tenders currency overlay
DENMARK – A Danish pension fund has tendered up to $200m in currency overlay via IPE-Quest.
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Clwyd Pension Fund tenders GTAA
UK – The £800m (€1.2bn) Clwyd Pension Fund administered by Flintshire County Council has tendered a £40m Global Tactical Asset Allocation mandate.
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Dutch schemes ‘must keep check on hedge funds’
NETHERLANDS - New rules should be set under which pension funds can invest in hedge funds, says the largest labour union FNV Bondgenoten.
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LA Fire & Police to invest in pooled real estate
REAL ESTATE – The $13.6bn Los Angeles Fire & Police Pension System has approved an investment in a commingled fund and signed off on some emerging manager guidelines.
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Fortis sets up green venture capital fund
NETHERLANDS – Fortis Venturing has set up a new venture capital fund for sustainable so-called ‘technostarters’ in the Netherlands.
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Henderson posts €4.3bn institutional outflow
UK – Henderson Global Investors had a £2.9bn (€4.3bn) outflow of institutional assets in the first half of 2006, the company said in its first-half report.
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Dutch institutional real estate reaches €29bn
NETHERLANDS – Dutch institutions’ investment in the real estate sector have surged to €29bn, according to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).
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Rentokil details asset revamp
UK – Pest control firm Rentokil Initial, which is the process of closing its defined benefit pension fund, has revealed more details about the scheme’s switch into bonds.
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IPE-QUEST: Three new searches on system
GLOBAL – There are three new searches by European pension funds for euro zone debt, pan-European equities and currency alpha on the IPE-Quest system.
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Nottinghamshire scheme makes real estate buy
UK – The £1.6bn (€2.6bn) Nottinghamshire County Council Pension Fund has bought an office building in the southern English town of Sutton for £13.33m.
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Clywd scheme goes unconstrained
UK – The £800m (€1.2bn) Flintshire County Council Clwyd Pension Fund has tendered a total of £145m in unconstrained fixed income and equities.
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Citigroup sets up pension solutions team
EUROPE - Citigroup has set up a European insurance and pensions structured solutions group in London under Wiltrud Heiss.
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BNP Paribas names global relationship manager
GLOBAL – BNP Paribas has appointed Scott Dickinson as global relationship manager in London covering the institutional investor and financial intermediaries client segment, focusing on alternative assets.
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IPE-QUEST: UK insurer tenders hedge funds
UK – A UK-based insurance company has tendered up to $100m (€77.7m) in long-short equity market neutral hedge funds via IPE-Quest.
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Ex-Schroders hedge CIO Parkin re-surfaces
UK - John Parkin, formerly chief investment officer of the fund of hedge fund team at Schroders, has re-surfaced at hedge fund group Aspect Capital.
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Pension funds offered multi-manager FX product
UK – Pension funds are being offered a new multi-manager foreign exchange product as a way to get exposure to the asset class.
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German institutions ‘still hedge fund sceptics’
GERMANY – German institutional investors are still very reluctant to put money into hedge funds, despite the 2004 liberalisation of the market, says FERI Institutional Advisors.
