All Alternatives articles – Page 178
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LGT beefs up executive board
SWITZERLAND – Switzerland-based alternative investment firm, LGT Capital partners has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Maximilian Brönner and Tycho Sneyers to its executive board.
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UBS rebrands its asset management
GLOBAL- UBS Asset Management is bringing its asset management companies under a single global brand known as UBS Global Asset Management as of April 8th.
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AP7 finally gets e195m alternatives approval
SWEDEN- The board of Sweden’s e2.6bn AP7 fund has finally given the go ahead to invest 8% of the portfolio in hedge funds and private equity. A week ago the fund delayed the decision due to concerns about pricing the investments into daily NAV calculations and about them meeting the ...
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Little replaces Groom as Mellon Global CEO
UK – Mellon Global Investments has appointed Jon Little as its new chief executive officer in place of Jon Groom, who is leaving the company for personal reasons.
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AP3 to invest Sek6bn in private equity by 2006
SWEDEN- Sweden’s AP3 fund still has up to Sek6bn (e653m) to commit to private equity investments over the next three to four years. Last Summer it announced it was investing up to 5% of the Sek133bn fund in private equity but so far it has only committed Sek729m and invested ...
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EU- Spain pushes quantitative investment rules
EU- The Spanish presidency of the European Union is leading a move to persuade the European Council to include quantitative investment rules – the so called prudent man plus principle – in the proposed pensions directive.
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AP7 delays decision on alternative investments
SWEDEN- Sweden’s e2.6bn AP7 default fund has delayed the decision to allocate a total of $170m (e195m) to hedge funds and private equity. AP7’s board met yesterday to pick alternative investment managers from a shortlist but instead postponed the decision for at least three weeks.
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CDC IXIS launches long/short large cap fund
FRANCE – CDC IXIS Asset Management has launched a long/short alternative investment fund, a Dublin registered non-market neutral vehicle with a European large cap investment bias.
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Axa launches second futures hedge fund
FRANCE/IRELAND – French asset managers, Axa Investment Management (Axa IM), has launched its second hedge fund to invest in the futures markets, Axa Futures II...
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AIMA says hedge fund transparency lacking
GLOBAL- Research by the Alternative Investment Management Association and Capital Market Risk Advisors into the hedge fund of funds industry suggests that although investors remain wary of investing due to a lack of transparency, hedge fund managers are convinced they are providing enough disclosure.
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Switzerland's AHV postpones hedge fund investment
SWITZERLAND- Switzerland’s ChF19.7bn (e13.4bn) social security fund AHV has delayed investing 5% of the portfolio in hedge funds in order to focus on developing its global equity portfolio.
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Dresdner poaches CSAM's Trevor Green
UK- Dresdner RCM Global Investors has appointed Trevor Green as a director of UK and European equities. Green joins from Credit Suisse Asset Management where he was director of the UK equity team under Steve Goldman.
