All Alternatives articles – Page 115
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New pension risk blog set up
GLOBAL – A new online blog aimed at pension financial risk and fiduciary implications has been launched.
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Merrill Lynch changes staff retirement terms
GLOBAL – Merrill Lynch employees will have to work longer and retire later if they want to cash out their company shares.
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Special Report
SRI now in the mainstream?
While European institutional investors have incorporated environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into their investment decision-making methodologies, the big American investors, for the most part, are lagging behind. Will they catch up – and are they even interested? On the surface the figures are buoyant. In the Social Investment Forum’s ...
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How to value the future
In this comment, we report the results of research on pension fund trustee decision-making relevant to socially responsible investment (SRI). Based upon a sample of over 150 UK trustees, it is shown that a majority of trustees believe there are significant barriers to the implementation of SRI. At the same ...
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Features
Dipping a toe in the water
Investing in alternative assets by French pension funds is still not common. “This is generally due to a poor understanding of alternative betas and especially the restrictive regulations,” says Noel Amenc, professor of finance and director of the Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Other observers point to the ...
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Going in alternatives direction
IPE asked three pension funds – in the UK, Belgium and Finland – the same question: ‘Do alternative asset classes serve a useful purpose or are they too complex and too expensive?’ Here are their answers: Richard Stroud, chief executive at The Pensions Trust, which has AUM of £3.3bn ...
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Who's afraid of the D-word?
Derivatives - the portmanteau word for futures, options and swaps - send shivers down the spines of the boards of many pension funds, who see them as too complicated, too expensive and too risky. Yet derivatives offer a way out of the difficulties that pension funds face in the current ...
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UN scheme looks to hire chief risk officer
GLOBAL – The in-house investment management firm of the $32bn (€26.5bn) United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) is looking to appoint a chief risk officer, and a senior investment officer to its alternative investment portfolio.
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IPe-symposium: Industriens eyes EM private equity
DENMARK – Industriens Pension, €5bn Danish scheme, says it might look at entering the emerging market private equity arena.
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Bank of NY launches Poland fund firm
POLAND – The Bank of New York has launched an investment fund company in Poland to tap pension fund demand.
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IPe-symposium: APK to up emerging markets
AUSTRIA – APK, the Austrian multi-employer pension fund, is looking to increase its allocation to emerging market equities and bonds “step by step”.
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Allianz's Corley to chair asset management forum
EUROPE - Elizabeth Corley, chief executive of Allianz Global Investors Europe, has been appointed chairman of the Forum of European Asset Managers, FEAM.
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Barriers set to fall German hedge funds
GERMANY - Further barriers to hedge fund investing could be removed later this year in the coming reform to the German Investment Act, according to a law firm.
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Van den Brink likens PME to Harvard and Yale
NETHERLANDS - Roland van den Brink, chief investment officer at the €19bn Dutch metals industry fund PME, has likened his fund to the US university endowments Yale and Harvard.
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DC schemes get low scores from Watson Wyatt
GLOBAL – Watson Wyatt has awarded the current investment sophistication of defined contribution schemes very low grades.
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Lupus alpha “talent hotel” almost full
GERMANY – German boutique asset manager Lupus alpha’s “talent hotel” for new managers could soon be full, says Ulf Becker, partner in the firm’s alternative solutions department.
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Irish regulator pulls plug on hedge fund
IRELAND – The Irish financial watchdog has ordered Dublin-domiciled hedge fund group Broadstone Fund Management to cease due to “serious regulatory issues”.
