All Alternatives articles – Page 119
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NAPF governance advisor Lindey to leave
UK - Geoff Lindey, strategic advisor on corporate governance at the National Association of Pension Funds, is to leave.
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PGGM names Overmeer to investment board
NETHERLANDS – Dutch health care sector pension fund PGGM has named Jan Overmeer to its three-strong investment board committee.
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Ex-State Street SVP Cassidy joins Cambridge
US – Charles Cassidy, a former senior vice president of marketing at State Street, has joined investment consulting firm Cambridge Associates.
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GAM says it’s targeting institutional market
UK – GAM, the $54bn (€44bn) hedge fund arm that’s now part of Julius Baer, is renewing its focus on the global institutional market and bringing investment consultants onboard to help build on its institutional business.
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ABN AMRO boosts hedge funds business with IAM buy
UK - ABN AMRO is buying the fund of hedge funds manager International Asset Management (IAM) in order to strengthen its own fund of hedge funds offerings.
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Deutsche dropped from EAI top researcher list
GLOBAL – Deutsche Bank failed to make the cut in the latest Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI) list of top research providers on extra-financial issues (EFI) and intangibles between May 2005 and December 2005.
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Ex NAPF chief named to BESTrustees board
UK – Peter Thompson, former Mercer HRC worldwide partner and ex-National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) chairman, has been appointed to the board of BESTrustees as director.
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Goldmans launching 35 new UCITS III funds
UK/LUXEMBOURG – Thirty-five new investment funds have been announced by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). Fourteen of the funds will be launched in the next three months, with the rest “subject to client demand”.
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UK high streets a magnet for private equity
UK - Private equity investment in the UK’s high street continues to be robust, despite concerns that consumer spending is about to fall.
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Harcourt Partners changes name
SWITZERLAND – Harcourt Partners SA, a Geneva-based fund of hedge funds boutique, has changed its name to Peak Partners.
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Credit default swaps trades surge in 2005
UK - The average number of credit default swaps (CDS) trades executed each month increased by 89% during 2005, according to London-based Markit Group’s annual ‘scorecard’ of market volumes in credit derivatives.
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KAS pockets €9m from exchange appreciations
NETHERLANDS – KAS Bank’s shareholdings in the London Stock Exchange, Euronext and Deutsche Börse appreciated more than €9m in the second half of 2005 to reach €25m at year end.
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ATP CIO on hedge fund fears in TDC bid
DENMARK – Hedge funds in the UK and US are concerned amid the proposed offer by the Nordic Telephone Company to buy Danish phone giant TDC, which is opposed by its largest shareholder, ATP.
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HFR’s Europe chief Godden leaves
EUROPE – John Godden, managing director of Hedge Fund Research’s European asset management arm, has left the company.
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UK asset management jobs set to rise - CBI
UK – Bullish expectations mean employment numbers across the fund management industry look set to increase even further in the next quarter, according to the CBI and PricewaterhouseCoopers quarterly Financial Services Survey.
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Nobel laureate Merton says LDI “ill-conceived”
GLOBAL – Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Merton has said immunizing pension obligations through liability driven investment strategies is “ill-conceived”.
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Features
Are mega funds a mega trend?
Are the mega funds that have come to dominate the private equity landscape, dinosaurs? This was the question that Jon Moulton of Alchemy posed provocatively at the recent Super Investor conference in Paris to an audience of 500 representatives of private equity firms, investors, intermediaries and service providers. Moulton amusingly ...
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Limited impact so far
When the former Chinese premier Zhou En-lai was asked about the effect of the French Revolution on the world, he is famously said to have quipped that it was too early to tell. His words come to mind when we think about the effect of the euro on equity markets. ...
