All Alternatives articles – Page 122
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SEI sees 25% European growth
EUROPE – SEI, the US-based multi-manager fund provider, expects to grow its business in Europe by 25% annually, with nearly all of that growth taking place in the UK, its managing director for Europe says.
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Horeca in €100m private equity move
NETHERLANDS - The €2bn Dutch hotel and catering scheme, Pensioenfonds Horeca en Catering, has awarded two €50m private equity mandates to Goldman Sachs Private Equity Group and HarbourVest Partners.
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Demand for Germany’s Riester pensions surges
GERMANY – Demand for the Riester-Rente, a government-subsidised private pension launched in 2002, has increased dramatically this year, the German finance ministry has reported.
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IPE-QUEST: North American equities tendered
DENMARK - Kirstein Finans has tendered around $100m (€85.4m) in active North American small/mid-cap equities via IPE-Quest.
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CEIOPS rules out separate pensions committee
EUROPE – CEIOPS chairman Henrik Bjerre-Nielsen has ruled out the need for a separate EU committee on pensions – despite the group’s current focus on the Solvency II project for the insurance industry.
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IPE-QUEST: Danish fund tenders EM debt
DENMARK – Kirstein Finans has tendered around €70m in global emerging market debt for a Danish pension fund via IPE-Quest.
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IMA says pension pooling at stalemate
UK – The Investment Management Association says pension pooling is stuck in “something of a stalemate”.
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Ireland’s NPRF starts private equity programme
IRELAND – The €14.5bn National Pension Reserve Fund has initiated its new investment programme with a €75m private equity commitment with independent buy-out firm CVC Capital Partners.
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Institutions pull €1.8bn from Schroders
UK – Schroders plc says it lost a net £1.2bn (€1.78bn) in institutional assets under management in the three months to the end of September – although asset management profit and revenue were both up.
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EU pensions committee eyes hedge fund role
EUROPE – The European pensions supervisory committee CEIOPS wants to serve as a focus for debating issues that impact occupational pension supervision from other sectors, such as hedge funds.
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Nestlé seeks pensions risk manager
UK – Nestlé is looking for a risk manager with experience in hedge funds to offer services, including the management of assets and liabilities, to its pension funds.
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Buckingham cuts Capital mandate in revamp
UK – The £874m (€1.3bn) Buckinghamshire Pension Fund has cut Capital International’s equities mandate by just over 20% due to poor performance results, and appointed five new fund managers.
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Report denies UK pensions crisis
UK - Britain does not face a pensions crisis, nor does it have a savings gap that needs closing, a business-led think tank has said.
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Italian pension funds agree merger
ITALY – Fonchim, Italy's industry-wide chemical and pharmaceutical industry pension fund, is acquiring the Bayer Italia pension fund (Fpbi), the Italian unit of the German chemical firm Bayer.
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Irish fund servicing industry closes on $1trn
IRELAND – Irish-serviced funds grew 23% over the past year, topping $950bn (€785bn) as at 30 June 2005, according to Lipper Fitzrovia’s 11th annual Dublin Fund Encyclopedia.
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Shallower returns
While the performance of funds of funds for August has been in keeping with the previous three months’ very positive and rising returns, the slope of the rise has taken a turn towards the shallow. The Eurekahedge Global Fund of Funds Index returned 0.8% in August (as compared with +1.6% ...
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Italy's longer-term optimism
Italy does not have as consistent a private equity culture as other large European economies. Last year, private equity investment as a whole made up just 0.110% of its gross domestic product. This placed Italy twelfth in the European rankings, behind not only the traditional leaders in private equity in ...
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Investing with the grain
Oil is today’s news. Gold is always news. But what about wheat? Wheat is one of the agricultural commodities, the Cinderella sector of commodities. While energy and metals have attracted the attention of investors, agriculture - a so-called ‘soft’ commodity - has often been overlooked. Yet agricultural commodities have their ...
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Hedge funds under scrutiny
Until recently, hedge funds were considered as a ‘black box’ which aimed to deliver absolute returns and stipulated cash as a benchmark. Current research conducted at the London Business School’s hedge fund research centre focuses on two issues. The first pertains to the systematic risks of hedge fund strategies while ...
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Showing the way in Europe
Compared with institutional investors in other countries, Dutch institutions are very receptive to investing in private equity and the largest pension funds in the Netherlands have been investing in private equity for some time, with ABP and PPGM investing in the asset class since 1996 and 1990 respectively. ABP has ...
