All Alternatives articles – Page 169
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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.
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Allianz Dresdner boosts alternative offering
UK - Allianz Dresdner Asset Management says it has formed a single manager hedge fund division in a bid to boost its alternative investment business.
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Pioneer completes Momentum acquisition
ITALY - Unicredito Italiano’s Pioneer Global Asset management unit has completed its previously announced 110 billion dollar (109.6 million euro) acquisition of hedge fund company momentum group. Pioneer says the move strengthens its position in the alternative investments market.
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Finland: discretionary management to rise
FINLAND - Around 20% of Finnish institutional investors say they will increase their use of discretionary and mutual fund management by the end of 2004, according to an industry report released in November by Scandinavian Financial Research (SFR).
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AP3 and Boots win top IPE awards
NETHERANDS - Sweden’s AP3 and the UK’s Boots were named the best European pension funds for their investment strategy at the second annual IPE European pensions industry awards last night in Amsterdam.
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GSAM names new fixed income and currency boss
EUROPE- Goldman Sachs Asset Management has named Philip Moffitt as the new co-head of the London-based global fixed income and currency team alongside Andrew Wilson. Moffit joined Goldman Sachs three years ago as a senior portfolio manager in the currency team.
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European funds using more US managers
EUROPE - European pension funds are using more non-domestic managers – in particular US-based ones, according to a report by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Of the top 20 managers of European pension funds, 15 listed the US as one of their home countries.
