All Alternatives articles – Page 146
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Gartmore names institutional chief
UK - Gartmore Investment Management has named Invesco UK’s Angus Woolhouse as head of business development for its global institutional and alternative investments business, spanning the US, Europe and Japan.
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Fortis hires fund exec from Ernst & Young
EUROPE - Fortis Bank has appointed Ernst &Young’s Jimmy Donnelly as senior business development manager at its Prime Fund Solutions arm.
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BGI hires Shellard for European ETF role
EUROPE - Barclays Global Investors has named Nick Shellard as European business development officer for its iShares exchange-traded funds business.
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BGI seeing lot of European interest in ETFs
EUROPE – Barclays Global Investors, the largest manager of European pension fund assets, says it is seeing a lot of interest in Europe for exchange-traded funds.
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IPE publishes Top 400 European asset managers
EUROPE - IPE has today published its 2004 ranking of the Top 400 asset managers active in the multi trillion-euro European marketplace, with Allianz, Fidelity and State Street Global Advisors retaining their top three places.
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German hedge market could grow to E20bn
GERMANY- The German hedge fund markets, newly open to institutional investors, could grow to 20 billion euros in the next five years, according to consultant Mercer.
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US SEC acts in hedge fund fraud case
US – The Securities and Exchange Commission has acted against alleged fraud at a Pennsylvania-based hedge fund called Fountainhead.
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Nestlé “very seriously” considering Irish CCF
GLOBAL - Multinational food group Nestlé, which has a 6.2 billion-Swiss franc (3.8 billion-euro) pension fund says it is “very seriously” considering Ireland’s tax-transparent pension vehicle Common Contractual Fund, or CCF.
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"Je ne regrette rien..."
The lure of greater freedom and flexibility is enticing successful fund managers to leave the security of traditional, large investment firms to try their luck in smaller, more nimble and adventurous hedge fund start-ups. Once out, they are finding that they relish the challenge and excitement. And many of those ...
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German funds set to increase equities – survey
GERMANY – German pension funds and insurers are likely to increase their weighting to equities in the medium to long term, according to a survey by Heissmann Consultants.
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FTSE says investable hedge index goes live
EUROPE – Index firm FTSE Group says its investable hedge fund index has now gone live.
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J P Morgan to buy hedge fund admin firm Tranaut
GLOBAL – J P Morgan says it has agreed to buy privately owned hedge fund administration services firm Tranaut Fund Administration.
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UK insurer applies for Irish CCF – agency
GLOBAL - A UK insurance company, as well as a multinational company, are in the process of applying to the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority to launch a tax-transparent Common Contractual Fund, Ireland’s Investment and Development Agency says.
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Calyon, HFR Europe in hedge index tie-up
EUROPE – Calyon, the merged Credit Lyonnais investment bank and Crédit Agricole Indosuez, has tied up with HFR Europe to offer structured products based on HFR’s HFRX investable hedge funds indices.
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New TIAA-CREF institutional arm to eye Europe
EUROPE – The new institutional asset management arm of US education retirement system TIAA-CREF will have a presence in Europe before too long, says one of its top executives.
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Fortis names Talia as Italy fund solutions MD
ITALY- Fortis Bank Information Banking, the Benelux bank’s asset servicing arm, has opened a subsidiary in Milan to boost its presence in the European ‘prime fund solutions’ market.
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Ireland mulls hedge fund tax-transparent vehicle
IRELAND - The Irish parliament could vote on a change of legislation to introduce a type of tax transparent vehicle which would allow investments in alternative asset classes like hedge funds.
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Austria’s VPK and BVP consider merger
AUSTRIA- The two billion-euro multi-employer Vereinigte Pensionskassen AG, VPK, and the 1.2 billion-euro banking and insurance sector pension fund BVP-Pensionskassen AG may agree to merge by the end of August.
