All Alternatives articles – Page 39
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News
Mandate roundup: VER, Pantheon, Danske Capital, William Blair
Finnish State Pension Fund VER awards €100m mandate to private equity firm Pantheon
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NewsNordic investors shun hedge funds in favour of risk premia strategies
Ilmarinen, PKA and ATP see benefits in strategies that emulate hedge funds over commitment to asset class
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News
European asset managers, pension funds question value of commodities
Hermes shuts down active commodities business, citing waning interest among clients
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Features
ESG: Profit with purpose
In the wake of a recent G8 working group on impact investing, Jonathan Williams examines how pension investors view strategies with a social purpose
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Fed up with volatility
The Federal Reserve-sparked ‘taper tantrum’ of 2013 revealed how sensitive emerging market currencies could be to interest rates set in the developed world. Caroline Saunders asks whether that volatility told us more about investor sentiment than fiscal fundamentals
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Features
ESG: A means to capture value
Hendrik du Toit and Therese Niklasson tell Nina Röhrbein about ESG integration at Investec
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Features
Infrastructure: Pension funds turn back on middlemen
European pension funds have long been aware of the benefits of infrastructure but, in 2014, the idea of co-investment with other pension funds has become a much more realistic option.
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Features
Interview - BVI: When special becomes alternative
Thomas Richter, CEO of the German Investment Funds Association, discusses the AIFMD, the future of Spezialfonds and opt-out models for occupational pensions with Barbara Ottawa
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
There is an uncomfortable sense that many market outlooks and forecasts are too sanguine about future risks and the course of US interest rates. Some asset classes are already being severely buffeted.
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Asset Class Reports
In-house strategies offer greater advantages
On The Record: Do you use external hedge funds?
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Features
That’s about the size of it
In late September, one of the world’s largest pension funds ditched its hedge funds, and one of the world’s largest mutual funds lost its manager. One decision made sense, but not for the reasons most commentators put forward. The other made sense, despite all the focus on the nonsense surrounding it.
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Features
Dollar storm ends 10-year FX calm
A full decade of range-bound trade in the dollar has dulled pension investors’ sense of the risks of currency exposure. As Christopher O’Dea reports, all that’s about to change
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News
Dutch pension fund to invest 5% of assets in residential mortgages
Asset class offers better returns than euro-denominated bonds against ‘very limited’ additional risk, scheme says
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News
AP2 targets tar sands, farmland for greater scrutiny
Swedish buffer fund sells stakes in 20 energy companies over concerns extraction projects to prove unprofitable
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NewsSPK appoints infrastructure, risk premia managers following strategy change
Swedish fund for banking industry appoints manager to oversee 4% allocation to real estate
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News
IPE Views: Boris Johnson's bonkers merger plan
The mayor of London’s proposal to merge funds for infrastructure investment shows a lack of understanding
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News
Infrastructure holdings drive 6% return at London Pension Fund Authority
Fund continues shift to in-house management, dropping £533m Newton IM equities mandate
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News
Regulatory roundup: ESMA, EMIR, EIOPA
ESMA publishes final regulatory standards on EMIR; three-year phase-in from 2015 confirmed
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Features
Evergreen mandate takes root
Mark Mansley and Faith Ward of the UK’s Environment Agency Pension Fund tell Jonathan Williams about the scheme’s plans for an ‘evergreen’ sustainable equity mandate and discuss how investment management agreements of indefinite length will spread
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News
Danica, Lægernes commit to Danish private equity fund in final close
Fund investing in Danish SMEs raises DKK1.1bn at final close
