All Alternatives articles – Page 180
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Metall-Rente welcomes timber and plastics workers
GERMANY – Berlin-based Metall-Rente, the newly-formed sector-wide occupational pensions scheme company for the German electronics, steel and textiles industries has confirmed that the country’s 300,000 timber and plastics industries workers have also joined the scheme, bringing the total number of potential members to 3.9 million.
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Austria's APK appoints Boehm to replace CEO Kapl
AUSTRIA- Austria’s e1.5bn APK pension fund has appointed Christian Boehm to succeed Helmut Kapl as chief executive. Boehm has been with APK since its creation in 1989 and was previously Kapl’s second in command.
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Swiss Fund seeks additional managers for €2.4bn
SWITZERLAND – The SFr10bn (€6.8bn) Swiss Post Office pension fund is to begin searching for additional asset managers in March, having already selected UBS Asset Management, Credit Suisse Asset Management and Pictet to run various portfolios for the recently-created fund.
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CDC to launch €3bn pan-European PE fund
UK – Specialist private equity investment company, Charterhouse Development Capital (CDC), is to launch its latest pan-European buy-out equity fund later this month.
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Advent to invest e1.4bn private equity in Europe
EUROPE- Private equity investor Advent International is to invest e1.4bn in western Europe following the announcement that its fourth fund Global Private Equity IV has raised e2bn
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Schroders raises e172m for private equity fund
UK – The Schroders Private Equity Fund of Funds has attracted €172m in the first phase of its launch, says Schroders after announcing the fund’s first close.
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GSAM launches five new pooled funds
UK – Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), with £40.3bn (€65bn) under management, has launched five new funds aimed primarily at the UK’s medium and small sized institutional pensions market.
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AP7 alternative manager search enters final stage
SWEDEN- The e2.3bn AP7 default fund’s search for private equity and hedge fund of fund investment managers enters the final stage next week when it begins interviewing a final shortlist of ten potential candidates.
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The outlook for private equity
Only a few months ago, European venture capitalists were becoming increasingly gloomy about the prospect of an economic upturn. The starkest evidence was provided in August in the UK in Deloitte & Touche’s third-quarter Private Equity Confidence Survey. Of the 770 venture capitalists surveyed, 80% of respondents expected the UK ...
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AMJPE to run £20m Greater Manchester venture fund
UK – The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) is to create a new £20m venture capital for investment in local business with Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity (AMJPE) winning the tender to act as advisors to the fund....
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Antici to head Goldman's emerging markets team
UK - Gabriella Antici is to relocate from Brazil to London in the New Year to become head of the global emerging market equity team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management...
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Reuters report reveals fears over Myners review
UK – The potential introduction of single fee structures and an end to “soft commissions” is the hottest subject among fund managers thrown up by the Myners review of institutional investment, claims research undertaken by Reuters into the review’s impact on the fund management and financial industries....
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Zurich grooms replacement for CFO Gose
Zurich Financial Services Group has promoted Thomas Buess, currently CFO Zurich North America, to become deputy chief financial officer with a view to replacing Gunter Gose as the group’s CFO on his retirement in mid 2002....
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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....
