All Alternatives articles – Page 187
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Zurich Scudder launches UK hedge fund
UK – Zurich Scudder Investments has launched a UK long/short basis hedge fund, Crescendo UK Fund, to be run by Paul Findley....
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BNP Paribas appoints global head of sales
Nadine Lagarmitte has been appointed global head of sales for European investor services at Paris based BNP Paribas Securities Services.... And all this week's major people moves...
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Big baby faces teething troubles
Suddenly, every one seems to be a hedge fund expert. Fund of funds managers, hedge fund analysts and new hedge fund managers have sprung up like mushrooms, drawn by the inexorable emergence of a multi-trillion-dollar industry that some believe seems set to evolve overnight. The omens are indeed promising. But, ...
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IMF taps hedge barometer
Hedge funds recorded on average modest returns on capital under management during 2000, outperforming most major market indexes. The number of hedge funds and, to a lesser extent, total capital under management has rebounded from the contraction of late 1998 and 1999. The limited available information suggests that the main ...
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On the road to respectability
Although the hedge fund industry has grown enormously over the past five years or so, pension funds and their institutional investors have been somewhat slow in warming to it. “The interest shown by the Swedish pension fund industry is a relatively new development,” says Eddie Dahlberg, managing director of the ...
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Postal fund parcels out £450m to venture firms
UK – Post Office Pension Trustees Limited (POPTL), the manager of the £16bn (e26bn) UK Post Office pension fund for postal group Consignia, has completed a £450m expansion of its private equity allocation by bringing on board three new managers….
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Fortis opens Dutch prime banking office
NETHERLANDS – Fortis PrimeBanking, the Dutch group’s investment services provider to funds and alternative investment funds, has opened an Amsterdam office adding to its existing operations in London and New York....
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Pension funds to make up 40% of hedge fund capital
EUROPE – Corporate pension funds are planning to boost investment in hedge funds and are likely to comprise some 40% of hedge fund source capital by the end of the year, second only to private investors, according to a survey published by Goldman Sachs....
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PGGM boosts venture allocation to 7.5%
NETHERLANDS – Zeist based NLG110bn (e50bn) Dutch fund PGGM is to continue increasing its investment allocation to private equity to 7.5% of its portfolio by the end of this year, following stellar performance from the asset class in 2000....
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DrKW names new German head of investment banking
GERMANY – Thomas Schwingeler is joining Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s Frankfurt office in the late summer as managing director of investment banking....
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New Star hires Goldsmith for offshore push
Philip Goldsmith has been appointed managing director of London based New Star International Investment Funds, and all other major people moves of the week
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Standard Life launches European venture trust
UK – Standard Life Investments has launched its first investment trust, Standard Life European Private Equity Trust, at an anticipated market capitalisation of £160m (e260m)....
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NIB launches e500m private equity fund of funds
NETHERLANDS - NIB Capital Private Equity, the Amsterdam based jointly owned venture arm of Dutch superfunds ABP and PGGM, is to launch an e500m private equity fund of funds arrangement in the coming months aimed primarily at pension funds in the Benelux region.....
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French manager launches first hedge fund
FRANCE – Paris based Sinopia Asset Management has launched its first alternative investment product – a long/short bond and money market hedge fund named Alternatime, aimed at institutional investors....
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2001 HedgeWorld hedge fund guide published
HedgeWorld Information Services has launched the HedgeWorld Annual Compendium 2001 – the reference guide for hedge fund investors, advisers, managers and service providers....
