All Alternatives articles – Page 152
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Venture firm Pantheon in recruitment spree
UK - Private equity house, Pantheon, has revamped its global and European investment and client service teams...
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VB may take government to court over Staatsen
NETHERLANDS - The VB, the Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds, says it may have to take the Dutch government to court if it decides to introduce a form of quantitative investment restrictions for Dutch pension funds as part of the findings of the Staatsen Commission.
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Janus names Goldman’s Black as CIO, president
GLOBAL – Janus Capital Group, facing an estimated 4.5 billion dollars of withdrawals by institutions, has hired Gary Black from Goldman Sachs Asset Management to be its new chief investment officer and president.
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EU expansion to boost private equity – EVCA
EUROPE – The expansion of the European Union at the start of May is being seen as providing a boost to the European venture capital and private equity business.
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Luxembourg’s EFA “positioned for pensions”
LUXEMBOURG – Fund firm European Fund Administration says it is now “ideally positioned” to support the European pension market.
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Royal Bank shifts to specialists in revamp
UK - The Royal Bank of Scotland has hired seven new specialist asset managers in a revamp of its 12 billion-pound (18 billon-euro) pension fund that was previously exclusively managed by Gartmore and Newton.
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Unigestion appoints new French chairman
France - European alternative asset manager Unigestion has appointed Gérard Pfauwadel, a former managing director of insurer AGF, as chairman of its French subsidiary, Unigestion Asset Management (France).
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Schroders to spend more on portfolio management
UK – Schroders said it expects to spend more on portfolio management and research this year than it did in the last two years.
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ISIS invests in alternatives firm Cardinal
UK – ISIS Asset Management is buying a 15% stake in a new alternative investment house called Cardinal for 7.5 million euros.
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Russell says its multi-manager assets top $100bn
GLOBAL – Multi-management specialist Russell says it has surpassed 100 billion dollars (80.4 billion euros) in assets under management – and that European institutions are buying into its hedge fund programme.
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Turning on the taps
‘How to tackle Germany’ occupied much conversational space at recent conferences. The Investment Act and the Investment Tax Act, which came into force on 1 January this year, brought hedge funds onshore for the first time, enabling an investor base already familiar with hedge fund index certificates to have direct ...
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Warming up the punters
People climb mountains because they are there, but will German retirement savings funds use hedge funds just because a law makes it easier? For most institutional investors the idea of hedge funds is more interesting than actually using them at the moment. This is partly because the ability to invest ...
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Still getting over the surprise
“Everyone was taken by surprise,” is the view from the German asset management association on the decision to reduce restrictions on hedge fund investment that came into force in January. This surprise was because on 6 February, 2002, Hans Eichel, German finance minister, had written in the Financial Times that ...
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Common sense the touchstone
Hedge funds are on their way to become the next big thing in investment management. New funds start up every day, hedge funds are marketed aggressively to institutions and, under pressure to make up for recent losses, many institutional investors are showing serious interest. Many investors do not seem to ...
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Clearing the hurdles
One hundred per cent allocation to hedge funds? This is not as silly as some may think. If an institutional investor were to simply put hedge fund return data into their asset liability model, 100% may well be the answer. The risk return characteristics of hedge funds are so attractive, ...
