All Alternatives articles – Page 148
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Schroders makes hedge fund appointment
UK - Schroders has appointed Russell Investment Group’s Derek Doupe to the new role of head of business development for its fund of hedge funds business.
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BNP Paribas in Italian hedge fund move
ITALY- BNP Paribas Group has partnered with Mediobanca and Mediolanum’s Duemme Hedge to launch a fund of hedge funds targeting small pension funds and individual investors.
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French reserve fund set to name overlay manager
FRANCE - The 16 billion-euro French reserve fund, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites, is going to appoint an overlay manager by the end of July, the president of the scheme’s executive board, Francis Mayer, says.
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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.
