All Alternatives articles – Page 111
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Shunning the black box
Imagine you are at a cocktail party by Lake Geneva on a warm summer evening, perhaps in Lausanne or Montreux. And as you sip a drink and enjoy the view of the sun setting behind the mountains you are aware of an ambiance of good feeling, you see people networking ...
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Burying heads in sand
The attitude to hedge funds among most UK pension funds never fails to amaze me. While happily (or at least willingly) accepting the volatility of equities, most trustees seem too frightened to make an investment in hedge funds, claiming that such an investment would be too risky despite the majority ...
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Nestlé setting up UK asset manager
UK – Nestlé says it is setting up a UK-based asset manager to provide services for its global pension funds.
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GSAM wins €750m Océ fiduciary deal
NETHERLANDS - Goldman Sachs Asset Management says it has been appointed to as fiduciary manager for €750m in assets at Stichting Pensioenfonds Océ.
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Two UK local authorities go unconstrained
UK – Two UK local authority pension funds – London Borough of Enfield and the Lothian Pension Fund - have separately opted to run significant assets in an unconstrained manner.
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Lane Clark parent gets private equity approach
UK – Alexander Forbes, the South African-based parent company of UK actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock, is in talks with private equity investors about a sale of the entire group.
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BIG forms private equity joint venture
IRELAND – Financial services outfit Bank of Ireland Group (BIG) has formed a joint venture with US private equity specialist Paul Capital Partners to provide private equity fund of funds products and advisory services to institutional and other investors worldwide.
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CalPERS names asset allocation consultants
GLOBAL – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the $210bn (€163.8bn) public pensions giant, has “tentatively” selected contractors for asset allocation consulting, securities lending services and administration of supplemental savings programmes.
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Unilever UK scheme taps Mercer for advice
UK – Unilever’s roughly £4.3bn (€6.3bn) UK pension scheme has axed Russell Investment Group as investment consultant in favour of Mercer, scheme chief investment officer Wendy Mayall confirmed today.
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PPF to appoint specialist fund managers
UK – The Pension Protection Fund will appoint specialist fund managers from next year, according to its new three- year strategic plan.
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Structured products strong in H1 – BNP Paribas
EUROPE - The first part of 2006 showed very strong growth for structured products, according to BNP Paribas Equities & Derivatives.
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UBS doubles German institutional assets
GERMANY – Due partly to proliferation of big corporate pension funds, Swiss bank UBS has raised its institutional assets under management in Germany to €8bn – more than double the figure for December 2004.
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IPE-QUEST: $300m in fund of hedge funds
GLOBAL – Up to $300m (€237m) in fund of hedge funds is being tendered on IPE-Quest.
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ABP to sit on new European securities group
EUROPE – ABP, Europe’s largest pension fund, is to have a member on a new securities industry group set up by the European Commission.
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GSAM nabs HSBC’s Cheetham for institutional role
UK - Goldman Sachs Asset Management has hired HSBC Asset Management’s Geoff Cheetham to boost its UK Institutional sales team.
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Finland’s Fennia eyes overseas real estate
REAL ESTATE - Public sector scheme Pension-Fennia is to invest €200m – 30% of its real estate allocation – in overseas indirect property amid increasing concerns over potential volatility in the Finnish market. (From iperealestate.com.)
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PGGM appeals against DNB levensloop fine
NETHERLANDS - Dutch health care pension fund PGGM says it will appeal against the fine it received from pension regulator De Nederlandsche Bank over the sale of levensloop, or “life course” products.
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European asset managers now run €30trn
EUROPE - Asset managers in the European market saw the assets they manage surge last year to more than €30trn, according to IPE’s calculations, up from last year’s estimate of €26trn when the increase on the year was only €2trn.
