All Alternatives articles – Page 34
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USS enters direct inflation-swap deal with Yorkshire Water
UK’s largest scheme began talks one year ago, knowing it would require inflation-linked financing
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IPE Views: How to create Europe's answer to Silicon Valley
Creating the right environment for venture capital may be more useful for Europe’s long-term future than anything politicians could do, writes Joseph Mariathasan
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PGGM, ATP join sovereign wealth funds in €3.7bn car-lease deal
Investors buy minority stake in Dutch car-lease company LeasePlan
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UK pension funds flirting with 40% bond allocation – UBS GAM
Average scheme returns 11.7% over 2014, with real estate and government bonds offsetting weak UK equities
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Greater Manchester, AP2 invest in new timberland company
Global Timber Resources to invest in timberland in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia
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UK roundup: TPR, Nestlé, Unite, Greater Manchester, Enterprise Ventures
Annual accounts show TPR scrapped DC promotion strategy after UK Budget
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Hedge funds hope to salvage Greek gains despite turmoil
Many hedge funds have bet Greek politicians, EU technocrats will avoid Grexit
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Cyprus: Hotel Employees Provident Fund
Rachel Fixsen reviews the Cyprus Hotel Employees Provident Fund with Marinos Gialeli, its general manager
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Friends Life mandate with AXA IM handed over to Aviva Investors
Friends Life was one of UK’s largest insurers before its takeover by rival Aviva
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Concern over pension-fund shadow banks 'exaggerated', PIMCO says
Institutional investors have little in common with unregulated banks, asset manager says
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Private equity drives 15% return at West Midlands Pension Fund
Scheme sees bumper returns from listed, unlisted equity, sells out of commodities, hedge funds
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Royal Mail Pension Plan awards £700m equity options mandate
Postal pension scheme increases derivatives usage after implementing synthetic equity exposure via River & Mercantile
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Switzerland's AHV drops soft commodities due to 'political sensitivity'
First-pillar fund’s future commodity investments to include energy, precious metals only
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AlpInvest returns 21% on back of 'strong exit markets'
Private equity firm to return nearly €7bn to 30 institutional investors
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NewsInsurance company tenders €200m EM currency mandate using IPE-Quest
Strategy should combine top-down country/sector selection with bottom-up duration/issue selection
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PPF 'disappointed' with UK pension funds' lack of interest in LDI
Chief executive says number of UK schemes using LDI contributed to lack of funding improvement since 2005
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Mandate roundup: Hampshire Pension Fund, RPMI Railpen, Northern Trust
UK’s Hampshire tenders for managers as it outsources more than £400m in alternative assets
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PFZW demands ‘change in mentality’ over carbon emissions approach
Pension fund says its 2020 target to halve carbon emmisions should help create a more sustainable world
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UK DC alternatives exposure jumps by one-third in two years
Marked fall in developed equities allocations exposed in new data by asset manager Schoders
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ESG investment: A Japanese carrot and a stick
In 2014, four years after the UK, Japan became the first country to issue a similar Stewardship Code. He look at the cultural shift occurring in a market traditionally lacking engaged investors
