All Alternatives articles – Page 157
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Corrected: SocGen investment mgmt recovery
FRANCE – (Corrects to clarify that TCW has not closed, paragraph 6) Societe Generale has reported continued recovery for its investment management business for the third quarter, with net inflows of 1.9 billion euros.
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Gartmore hires Merrill’s Beazley for alternatives
UK – Gartmore Investment Management has appointed Charles Beazley as head of institutional and alternative investments.
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Flintshire tenders for 153 million euro mandates
UK - Flintshire County Council in Wales has put out to tender four mandates for the 450 million pound (682.8 million euro) Clwyd pension fund.
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The future for hedge funds
There are some expressions you read about in magazines and hear regularly at conferences these days that most people had never heard of a few years ago. One such expression now heard regularly is: “the search for alpha”. Another is: “absolute return investing for pension funds”. Even now, few of ...
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Julius Baer’s London CEO Christian Yates departs
UK - Christian Yates, the chief executive of the London operations of Swiss asset manager Julius Baer has left the company.
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Germany’s HVB boosts hedge fund service
GERMANY – HVB Alternatives has established a structuring and due diligence service for third party hedge fund companies in light of the new German investment law.
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CSAM appoints new head of emerging market equities
UK – Credit Suisse Asset Management has appointed a head for its emerging markets equities team.
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Nordic institutions move to alternatives - survey
NORDIC – Nordic institutional investors are continuing to move into alternative assets, according to research conducted by Prospera Research.
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CSAM aims to attract wary institutions to hedge funds
Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has become the latest global asset manager to move into the direct management of hedge funds.
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USS long-term mandate shortlist announced
UK – Three corporate entries have made it onto the shortlist of eight candidates in the Universities’ Superannuation Scheme’s long-term mandate competition.
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Ten managers hit as Belgacom closes
BELGIUM – The ten fund managers for Belgacom’s 3.6 billion-euro pension fund are to lose their mandates as the assets are handed over to the state.
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Gartmore hires hedge fund risk head
UK – Gartmore has named a former telecoms executive to the new role of head of hedge fund risk management.
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Fortis Investments names head of Italian sales
ITALY – Fortis Investments has appointed a new head of sales for the Italian and Mediterranean market.
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Watson Wyatt calls for “dynamic” asset strategy
NETHERLANDS – The head of Watson Wyatt’s Dutch investment consulting practice, Gerard Roelofs, has called for a “dynamic” approach to strategic asset allocation.
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Parliament gets to work on hedge funds
With the summer break now over, the legislative machine at Brussels has started to crank back into life. On the slate is a directive aimed at pinning down transparency. Also in the pipeline are a consultation on pensions mobility and the directive on investment services. But perhaps the most interesting ...
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The private equity world
The private equity world sometimes moves at a different pace to the rest of the investment world. The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (interestingly still best know by the abbreviation of its old name – EVCA) has just published (in its mid- September newsletter) a summary of the ...
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Meeting the hedge capacity challenge
What is very interesting is the recent rise in pension fund investment in hedge funds. Driven by increasing membership and sponsor pressure to generate absolute returns, pension fund trustees are increasingly considering hedge funds as part of their overall investment portfolios. Now that consultants and even the UK government (Myners) ...
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Bringing hedge funds in from the cold
The current discussion in Germany about the deregulation of the hedge fund industry highlights an important issue faced by retail and institutional investors: how to find investments that can weather not only difficult market conditions but also offer potential for attractive future returns? The past three years have shown that ...
