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London firms unready for MiFID says report
UK – More than two-thirds of London-based investment firms are not adequately prepared for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) due to be implemented in November 2007, according to a research report released today.
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Danes launch €70m public-private SRI fund
DENMARK - Nine Danish pension funds are to invest some €63m in non-listed companies in less developed countries in a public-private initiative under which the Danish government will share many of the preparatory costs.
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Janus names new CEO amid inflows
GLOBAL - Janus Capital has named investment head Gary Black to take over from chief executive Steve Scheid amid a recovery in asset inflows.
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SAM appoints new global marketing head
SWITZERLAND – Swiss sustainable asset management company SAM has appointed Eric Gelfgren as global head of marketing and sales.
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GSAM consultant chief named as MD
EUROPE – Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s European consultant relations head Paul Richards has been promoted to managing director level at the firm.
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Dutch funds' AlpInvest in €550m spin-off
NETHERLANDS - AlpInvest, the private equity house owned by ABP and PGGM, is to spin off its buy-out team into a new company.
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Schering puts extra €450m into external fund
GERMANY – Pharmaceuticals company Schering has removed another €450m in pension liabilities from its balance sheet so that they can be financed by its contractural trust arrangement (CTA).
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French reserve fund confirms private equity plan
FRANCE - The €24.8bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund, has confirmed it will look for private equity asset managers for Europe and North America by the end of the year.
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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 ...
