All Alternatives articles – Page 180
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Lack of knowledge deters hedge fund investment
GLOBAL – A lack of knowledge and understanding of how hedge funds work is deterring investors from using alternative investments to diversify their portfolios or reduce volatility, says Baring Asset Management (BAM)....
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Parallel in Spanish venture capital tie-up
SPAIN/UK – London based private equity investment managers, Parallel Ventures Managers (Parallel), has moved into the Spanish market with the announcement of a new link-up with Spanish private equity investment and advisory firm, Excel Partners....
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Europe's pension providers need to get aggressive
EUROPE –European pension providers need to be more aggressive if they are to reap the rewards of the growth in the market brought on by the switch from public to private retirement provision, warn Goldman Sachs (GS) and Deloitte Consulting (Deloitte) in a new report....
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AMEX announces new fund of hedge funds
US/SWITZERLAND – American Express Bank (AEB) has launched its third fund of hedge funds, the global market neutral conservative fund of funds portfolio....
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Kvalheim to head Barclays' investment banking arm
UK - Grant Kvalheim, global head of credit products at Barclays Capital, is to take responsibility for the management of the firm’s Investment Banking Division, which manages Barclays Capital’s relationships with corporate and financial institution clients....
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AP7 starts phase two of alternatives RFP
SWEDEN - The e2.3bn AP7 fund has received proposals from 135 managers for tenders worth around e180m in hedge fund and private equity assets and will today (December 4) begin sending out the second phase questionnaire for the RFP process to all the managers....
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CDC venture arm launches large-scale buy-out fund
FRANCE – €600m CDC Equity Capital, the leveraged buy-out arm of CDC Ixis, itself part of the Caisse des Dépôts group, has launched a new fund, CDC-Entreprises II, which is aimed at large-scale buy-outs in France with a target total of €450m....
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Jupiter offers new pan-European hedge fund
IRELAND/UK – Jupiter International Group has launched a new pan-European long/short equity hedge fund called Jupiter Europa Hedge Fund.
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Opportunity for private equity industry
In the 1990s indexing in the quoted equity markets came of age in two senses. First, many institutional investors chose to move from active to passive management of their portfolios (ie from individual stock picking to pro-rata investment in a basket of stocks forming an index), and second, the performance ...
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Where hedge fund market falls down
Knowing and understanding the likely performance of an asset is a critical step in determining whether it has a place in the pension fund’s investment portfolio. Having effective benchmarks against which to measure manager performance is a prerequisite to proper monitoring of any investment. On both these counts, the hedge ...
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Growing market for commodity indices
As equity returns have slumped, so the appeal of alternative investments has risen. Commodities in particular are seen by many as having advantages not just in terms of diversification, but also as assets which can produce solid growth. In this environment, Standard & Poor’s has lauched its new commodities index. ...
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More ‘humility’ please
Alistair Ross Goobey, the chief executive of Hermes Pensions Management has warned the private equity industry that it needs to cultivate a little more “humility” in its claims of outperformance, arguing that managers have confused a prolonged bull market with genius. Speaking at the Superinvestor 2001 conference in Paris last ...
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Irish pensions association loses director
IRELAND – Des Crowther, director of the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF), has left the association to become chief executive of the Dublin-based Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management....
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Friends' venture arm becomes ISIS Capital
UK - Friends Ivory & Sime Private Equity is to become ISIS Capital in a bid to make the subsidiary “distinctive” from its parent company....
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Germany ripe for private equity growth
GERMANY – The hitherto disappointing German private equity market is entering a transition phase that will lead to a more sustainable and attractive investment environment, despite a slowdown in the growth of private equity assets last year, says a report by AltAssets, the alternative investments research company....
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New European fixed income manager launches
UK/JAPAN – BlueBay, a new European fixed income specialist asset management company has been launched today, with a hedge fund scheduled for launch as its first product early next year....
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German metalworkers tender enters second phase
GERMANY – The tender process for selecting investment managers for the German metal and electronics workers’ new retirement provision company, as reported by IPE-Newsline in September, has entered its second phase, with three of the original nine players left in contention, and other industries ready to participate....
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US firm triumphs as AP7 e180m alternatives advisor
SWEDEN – US specialist investment consultancy firm New England Pension Consultants (NEPC) has beaten a field of some of Europe’s biggest consultants to become the advisor to Sweden’s e2.3bn AP7 fund for a tender worth around e180m in hedge fund and private equity assets, according to sources close to the ...
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Sweden's AP7 reveals e180m hedge/venture plans
SWEDEN - The e2.3bn AP7 fund – the default fund for Sweden’s PPM system - has laid out its plans for the investment of around e180m in hedge fund and private equity assets in tandem with the selection of a consultant to advise on the process....
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AP7 shortlists six advisors for alternatives brief
SWEDEN - The e2.3bn AP7 fund has whittled down its search for an advisor to an approximately e180m tender for hedge fund and private equity exposure to a shortlist of six consultants, with a public decision expected in the next few days.....
