All Alternatives articles – Page 186
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First Quadrant promotes Goodsall to chairman slot
UK – US quant house, First Quadrant, has appointed Bill Goodsall as chairman and promoted Robert Brown to the position of managing director in its London office....
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BNP Paribas teams up with hedge fund specialist
UK/FRANCE – BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNP PAM) and London based hedge fund specialist firm, Fauchier Partners, have announced the establishment of a joint venture company to manage all of BNP PAM’s hedge funds...
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Transparency the hedge issue
On the back of plunging markets, pension schemes have been rudely re-awakened to negative returns for the first time in many years. As a result, headspinning research papers debating alternative investment, particularly in hedge funds, are firmly back in the ‘in-tray’ of pension fund managers around the continent. So, where ...
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Swedish manager poaches FIS chief for US push
Stockholm-based asset manager Länsförsäkringar Kapitalförvaltning is beefing up its US operations by recruiting J Robert Bloom as head of its New York office.... And all the week's major people moves...
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Belgacom reveals tender plans for e300m new assets
BELGIUM – The country’s largest pension fund, the e3.5bn Belgacom scheme, has revealed its tender proposals for the investment of up to e300m of new asset inflows into hedge funds, real estate and credits....
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Hedge fund association revamps web-site
The Nassau-based Hedge Fund Association has re-launched its web site under the URL www.thehfa.org....
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SEB selects Schroders for SEK12bn advisory brief
SWEDEN/UK – Stockholm based financial services group Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has appointed London based asset manager Schroders to advise it on the management of its SEK12bn (e1.3bn) Asian and emerging market equity assets....
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Bugnone takes the chair at the EVCA
EUROPE – Edoardo Bugnone has been named as the new chairman of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA)....
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New Proximus fund opts for Fortis and ABN-AMRO
BELGIUM - Proximus, the mobile phone subsidiary of Belgacom – the Belgian telecommunications group, has appointed investment managers Fortis and ABN-AMRO for passive and active equity briefs respectively, following the transfer of assets into its fledgling pension fund....
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AXA rolls out venture fund of funds in Germany
GERMANY – AXA Investment Managers is to offer German institutional investors access to a range of private equity products through its Frankfurt office, including fund of funds, secondary funds and venture capital....
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Japanese DC 'goldmine' won't happen, warns Cerulli
JAPAN – The recently authorised Japanese defined contribution (DC) plans will not create a goldmine for foreign fund managers, raising only ¥5trn (e47bn) during their first three years of operations, according to Boston based research and consulting firm Cerulli Associates...
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UK finance directors pledge support for Myners
UK – Nearly two thirds (64%) of finance directors of some of the largest UK companies ‘broadly’ support the proposals of the Myners report on institutional investment in the UK, according to a survey commissioned by Barclays Global Investors (BGI)....
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UK £20bn electric fund in huge reorganisation
UK – The £20bn (e33.1bn) industry-wide occupational retirement plan for 26 electricity companies, Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (ESPS), has reorganised some £2.1bn of its assets....
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BITA Plus unveils new risk control software
Investment management software provider, BITA Plus, has introduced a new portfolio analysis system to assist asset managers in risk control and back testing....
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Washington launches new European hedge fund
EUROPE – Adrian Farthing has been appointed by the Washington Financial Group to manage its new European hedge fund targeted at European, UK and US offshore institutional investors and funds of funds....
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Pension funds are Europe's top venture investors
EUROPE - Pension funds are for the first time since 1995 providing the most funds for Europe’s venture capitalists and private equity firms, according to the latest figures released by the European private equity and venture capital association (EVCA)....
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Mercury Private Equity becomes HgCapital
UK – Mercury Private Equity, the London based venture capital outfit, which was spun off from Mercury Asset Management last year, has renamed itself HgCapital....
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Accel lines up hi-tech team for European office
EUROPE/US – The US venture capital firm, Accel Partners, is expanding into Europe and has appointed Kevin Comolli to lead its European operations from London, with a team of well known technology experts.
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Deutsche AM unveils new regional COOs
Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has appointed a raft of new regional chief operating officers (COO) for Europe, the Asia/Pacific region and the Americas, as part of the restructure of its institutional and retail businesses....
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Nasdaq Europe to go live on Friday
EUROPE – Nasdaq Europe, the pan-European exchange formed by the buy-out in March of Brussels based Easdaq by the US exchange, will begin live trading on Friday (June 8), following the approval of its rule book by the Belgian Finance Ministry.
