All Alternatives articles – Page 136
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Dynamics of building Swiss portfolios
In 2003 the Swiss private equity market was heavily affected by the re-engineering of corporate portfolios. Michael Peterson, director of 3i Schweiz, says: “From a general partner perspective, we have seen a remarkable wave of corporate restructuring. This resulted in the reorganisation of many corporate activities that led to some ...
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Hedge strategies still dominant
December was globally a good month for hedge fund strategies, especially when compared to the disappointing performance in 2004 as a whole. But as shown in table 1, the performance of the different strategies was mixed in December. While the convertible arbitrage and CTA global strategies fell short of their ...
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Hedge funds provide good return for Shell
Stichting Shell Pensioenfonds, the e13.7bn scheme of the oil giant, made a 6.9% return on its hedge fund investments in 2004. “On the hedge fund portfolio a return of almost 7% was achieved,” the scheme says in a statement on its website. Hedge funds, including currency hedging, account for 5.5% ...
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Prices on the move
Swiss deal opportunities come largely from medium-sized family businesses, which have become much more aware of private equity and look to the asset class to solve succession issues, Betschart says. Whereas before these companies valued private equity investors for their potential financial input, they are slowly beginning to understand that ...
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Commodities now the only ‘pure bull market’
GLOBAL - The only place where there is currently a pure bull market is in commodities, investment guru Jim Rogers told the SuperHedge conference today.
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German hedge fund market seen doubling
GERMANY - Hedge funds in Germany are set to double from an investment of currently €15bn to €30bn euros by 2007, the SuperHedge conference was told today.
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UBS could lose €915m AP1 emerging market assets
SWEDEN – AP1 may pull up to SEK8.3bn (€915m) in emerging market assets from a UBS structured product and award them to new managers.
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ABP outlines post-Frijns board composition
NETHERLANDS – The €168bn,Dutch civil service scheme Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP has announced the composition of its board when Roderick Munsters takes over from Jean Frijns.
