All Alternatives articles – Page 136
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Allianz’s European asset chief Goldbrunner exits
GERMANY - Johann Goldbrunner, head of Europe for Allianz Global Investors, has decided to resign on April 1 – just three months after taking on the role.
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Infrastructure's class act
For pension funds the attraction of investing in infrastructure projects – roads bridges and airports – is that they can provide stable long-term returns and a good match for long-dated liabilities. However the drawback is that few pension funds have the expertise to assess the risk and returns of individual ...
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Clwyd strikes the right risk/return balance
Clwyd Pension Fund, currently valued at £611m (e884m), is one of a growing number of local government pension funds in the UK that have made substantial allocations to alternative investments. Alternatives now represent 22% of the fund’s total portfolio. Of this 4% is allocated to currency funds, 4% to private ...
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European private equity: is there too much money being raised?
2005 will see significant capital raised in private equity with forecasts of some $230b to be raised globally and within this, Europe’s share is forecast to be $60b. The significant increase in Funds raised naturally leads investors to question whether this is a bubble with subsequent returns for private equity ...
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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 ...
