All Alternatives articles – Page 124
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PGGM’s equities director Sol replaced
NETHERLANDS – Dutch health care fund PGGM has replaced Marjolein Sol as director of equities with Leo Lueb as of November 1.
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ABN Amro names new asset management CEO
GLOBAL – ABN Amro has named Sarah Russell, an Australian who joined the bank in 1994, as chief executive of its asset management division.
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Fund-of-hedge-funds ‘worst for seven years’
GLOBAL – Fund-of-hedge fund managers are suffering the worst market conditions for seven years, according to Standard & Poor’s.
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Watson Wyatt makes three Dutch hires
NETHERLANDS – Watson Wyatt has hired three new staff for its “rapidly expanding” investment consulting team in the Netherlands.
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Hermes expects to raise hedge allocation
UK – Hermes Pension Management – the asset manager of British Telecom’s £50bn (€74.2bn) pension scheme - today said it expects to increase its hedge fund allocation from 2% over the next few years.
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IPE-QUEST: Danish manager tenders high yield
DENMARK - Kirstein Finans has tendered an initial $100m in global high yield bonds on behalf of a Danish asset manager via IPE-Quest.
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All absolutes are not created equal
During recent years, particularly since 2000, there has been substantial and growing interest in absolute return investing. We believe there are two types of approach to absolute return investing and it is critical to understand the differences. One form is the hedge fund style – an approach that targets relatively ...
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The alternative alternatives
Timber It has been much ignored by institutional investors, and yet timber has offered some of the strongest returns of the last decade. The asset class produced an annual compounded return of 12.44% in the period between 1989 and 2003, according to the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries ...
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Measured approach
The past few years has seen tremendous institutional investor inflows into commodities. Most investors have chosen to adopt a passive exposure to begin with. It means that choosing a commodity index is one of the most important decisions that an investor can make. It is sometimes easy to forget that ...
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Leveraged loans: a separate and strategic asset cl
In the last 15 years, the leveraged loans market has first developed in the US and more recently in Europe thanks to the growing participation of institutional investors. Leveraged loans emerge now as a separate and strategic asset class that should be considered in the asset allocation process by any ...
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Finding the best way to spread bets
Diversification is the byword for investing in listed equities. But for investing in private equity - a much more risky asset class - the importance of spreading one’s bets is far greater. The basic route into private equity is via a fund investing in a basket of individual companies. However, ...
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Strong FoF summer recovery continues
Riding the recovery wave that began in May and rose in June, global markets continued to yield very good returns for funds of funds all round. The Eurekahedge Global Fund of Funds Index returned 1.6% in July and tentatively is up 0.8% in August The best performance came from funds ...
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Land of good intentions
Iceland has a population of only 300,000 and a GDP of €7bn. However, there are around 20 pension funds worth well over a hundred million euros, with the biggest ones worth more than a billion. But private equity as a pension fund asset is still in its early stages, though ...
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More haste, less speed
Worldwide, pension funds have shown an interest in hedge funds as part of a holistic solution to achieve absolute returns. They are perceived as complementing, not competing, with other asset classes. Contrary to media headlines in the recent past, however, pension funds’ allocations will be very small; with less than ...
