All Alternatives articles – Page 152
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How PTPE tracks private equity
Investment companies listed on the stock market are generally regarded as high-risk, and in the stock-market crash some total failures attracted much publicity. In addition, some large companies, such as 3i, Softbank and Jafco, are well-known. But even experts in the field know little more about global connections in this ...
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Liquidity and risk transfer
Is there – in reality – something that can be called a hedge fund with defining characteristics? If so do they apply to everything that are now called hedge funds? Hedge fund activities are very broad. They have characteristics that are defining such as they sell securities short as well ...
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Denmark’s FSP awards E41m to Russell
DENMARK - The 16 billion-crown (2.21 billion-euro) pension fund of the Danish financial sector, Finanssektorens Pensionskasse has awarded two equities and a hedge fund- of-funds mandates to Russell.
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Goldman's asset mgmt revenues rise 67%
GLOBAL – Goldman Sachs’ asset management division has posted a 67% rise in revenues in the first quarter.
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AP3 invests E38m in new forestry group
SWEDEN – Tredje AP-fonden has bought a 4.9% stake in new Swedish forestry group Bergvik Skog for around 350 million crowns (38 million euros).
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Citigroup, Mellon sign for new GSAM cash system
EUROPE – Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched a Europe-wide cash management system, saying that Citigroup, Mellon Global and Invesco have already signed up.
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Consultant says it is first to 'cost' fixed income transactions
GERMANY - A German investment consultant has developed what it claims is the first methodology to measure the overall cost of fixed income transactions
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Real estate manager PRICOA in MBO from Prudential parent
London-based PRICOA Property Investment Management (PPIM) has confirmed that it is in discussion with US parent company Prudential Real Estate Investors about a management buy-out (MBO) of the European operations.
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AIMA launches survey for common hedge fund NAV policy
The UK-based Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is asking hedge funds to take part in a survey to identify a common approach to valuing hedge fund assets and pricing hedge fund net asset values (NAV).
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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.
