All Alternatives articles – Page 148
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Northern Trust working with multinats on pooling
LUXEMBOURG – Northern Trust says it is working with two multinational companies on Luxembourg-based tax-transparent pension pooling.
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French reserve fund allocates final E1.88bn
FRANCE – The 16 billion-euro French reserve fund, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites, has allocated its final 1.88 billion euros in assets to managers in four lots.
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German pension measures insufficient – report
GERMANY – Germany’s measures to deal with its pension problems, while necessary, are still insufficient, a new report from the International Monetary Fund says.
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Swedish pension market in midst of restructure
SWEDEN - The crisis in the Swedish mutual life insurance market is leading to a shake-up in the pensions industry, Alex Inkapool writes.
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France’s FRR awards transition management brief
FRANCE – The French reserve fund, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites, has awarded a transition management mandate to Goldman Sachs International for three years.
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CalPERS names exec to oversee managers, advisors
US – CalPERS has named Anne Stausboll as assistant executive officer, tasked with overseeing external manager and consultant searches and the coordination of internal investment policy.
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Barclays-HFR hedge product targets pension funds
EUROPE – Barclays Capital and Hedge Fund Research are targeting pension funds and insurers with a new collateralised fund obligation product that they say gives exposure to the hedge fund market.
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IPE-QUEST: Nordic institution tenders hedge brief
NORDIC - A Nordic institutional investor has tendered a 100 million-dollar (82.2 million-euro) single strategy actively managed multi-manager hedge fund mandate via IPE-Quest.
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PGGM gives Aegon its largest-ever win with €1bn
NETHERLANDS – The €55bn PGGM pension fund has given Aegon The Netherlands a €1bn mandate for European government bonds, its largest-ever win and a sign of a change within the investment management style of large pension funds.
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Finatem picks up Hennings and deal flow from DZ
Germany- German mid-market private equity firm Finatem has appointed Robert Hennigs as partner and managing director of the firm’s second portfolio, which has recently has its first closing with commitments of €74m.
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Epic hires Hermes' White
UK – Epic Investment Consulting, a pension fund trustee advisory company, has made snapped up Adrian White from Hermes and John Siska for its panel and asked the regulator to crack down on unauthorised independent advisers.
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CalPERS earns $98.4m (€81.2m) from stock lending
US – CalPERS has earned $98.4m (€81.2m) from lending out about two-thirds of its securities in one year and is moving further into enhanced index strategies and away from index funds and active managers.
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State Street buys out Mediolanum from their JV
ITALY- State Street Global Advisors has bought out Italian insurer Mediolanum SpA’s 50% stake in their fund management joint venture after a difference in strategies.
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Lothian cuts UK equities weighting and Putnam
UK - The £1.9bn (€2.9bn) Lothian Pension Scheme has cut its UK equities weighting by 16.9 percentage points, about £320m, in its main fund, in a further sign of a shift of defined benefits schemes away from the asset class, which WM Company predicted would lead to a £174bn shift ...
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Merrills says fund managers are obsessed with inflation
GLOBAL - Fund managers’ concerns about high global inflation driven by commodities and wages “ are verging on the obsessive,” according to David Bowers Merrill Lynch’s chief global and European equity strategist.
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Petroleum Fund chief explains pay structure
NORWAY – The head of the 915.3 billion-crown (110 billion-euro) Petroleum Fund has outlined how the scheme’s employees who manage investment mandates are compensated – and signalled a move to more external managers.
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IPE-QUEST: Institution tenders more than E331m
EUROPE - An institutional investor with offices in continental Europe has tendered more than 400 million dollars (331 million euros) in four equities briefs via IPE-Quest.
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Mellon buys hedge fund firm Evaluation
US – Mellon Financial Corp. has bought hedge fund firm Evaluation Associates Capital Markets for an undisclosed sum.
