All Alternatives articles – Page 168
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Coping with fixed liabilities and volatile assets
Pension funds, and particularly defined benefit (DB) ones, are basically a bag of liabilities. These obligations have to be matched by both current assets and the future income stream. In the past 50 years, pension funds have benefited successively from high returns on equities, bonds, and equities again. Since September ...
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Infrastructure as an alternative
Recent global market turmoil has seen a rebalancing of many pension funds’ portfolios away from listed equities and a greater willingness on the part of institutional investors to examine alternative asset classes. There have been many reports of increased allocations to private equity and hedge funds as well as a ...
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AP7's private equity choice
Sweden’s seventh national pension fund, AP7, has allocated $84m (e86m) to two US-based private equity fund of fund managers, Hamilton Lane Advisors and HarbourVest Partners. Hamilton Lane will be managing a US private equity fund of fund portfolio balanced between buyout, venture and special situation funds including secondary interests. AP7 ...
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Pioneer names fixed income head in Dublin
IRELAND – UniCredito Italiano’s asset management arm Pioneer Investments has named a new head of fixed income in Dublin, Raffaele Bertoni. He will report to Mauro Ratto.
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UK's Close Bros expands private equity team
UK – Close Brothers Private Equity, private equity arm of the UK merchant bank Close Brothers Group, has hired two new investment managers as the private equity business has taken off, expanding the team’s headcount to 13.
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Calpers private equity performance faces scrutiny
US - Calpers, the US’s largest public pension fund, may have to reveal the performance data and stocks of its 20 billion dollars of private equity investments, after making the information secret last year.
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Hedge funds see steady stream of interest - report
US - Institutions are showing a steady stream of interest in investing in hedge funds, according to new research by industry tracking outfit Tass.
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US firms face $80bn pension shortfall - report
US - Goldman Sachs estimates that US companies will have to raise their contributions to defined benefits pension plans by 80 billion dollars (79.67 billion euros) per year.
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Goldman asset management staff rises 8%
LONDON - Despite what it terms “difficult markets”, Goldman Sachs’ asset management division in Europe now has 8% more asset managers than a year ago, though Goldman was unable to provide headcount numbers.
