All Alternatives articles – Page 35
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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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Features
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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Features
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
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Cyprus Hotel Employees scheme grows hedge-fund allocation
Pension fund adds global macro strategies to funds of hedge funds in attempt to diversify
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ESMA calls for UCITS amendments with launch of EMIR review
European agency says current UCITS regime unfit for new derivatives regulations as Commission reviews impact of EMIR
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Derivatives account for two-thirds of annual returns at KPN scheme
Listed real estate returns more than 26% at soon-to-be-merged scheme
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Hedge funds need to increase reporting transparency, Northern Trust warns
Development of industry-wide data standards to help disclosure, company argues
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Sovereign wealth funds invest in UK mobile phone operator
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, GIC and CPPIB among investors
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ATP invests in energy-trading company with private equity firm
Investment gives Danish pension fund exposure to little-understood sector with potential for ‘substantial growth’
