All Alternatives articles – Page 46
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Small is beautiful, again
Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward note that smaller hedge funds are enjoying significant new inflows for the first time since the financial crisis. Where is the money coming from?
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Hedge Funds: “We ask investors what they like”
After almost 10 years of talking to hedge fund managers, this is a first. Erich Schlaikjer, co-founder of the Cambridge, UK-based systematic managed futures specialist Cantab Capital, is showing me what his firm’s trading and research systems can do.
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Not such black boxes
David Turner looks at how transparency has improved in the hedge fund world, and what pension funds are doing to adapt to all the new information
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Hedge Funds: Bottom-up on the up
Changes in market behaviour have created an alpha-rich environment that is great for stockpickers and dangerous for market-timers, write Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward
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Hedge Funds: Fit for use
Craig Baker sets out six areas for improvement in the institutional fund of hedge funds model
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Hedge Funds: Not just a lion at the gate
Liongate Capital Management understood from day one that hedge fund investing was more what you know than who you know. Ten years later, Martin Steward reports on how this became the institutional mainstream – and where it is going next
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News
Germany's WPV restructures portfolio to focus on real assets
Pension fund for accountants moves to strengthen in-house staff
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NewsDutch hedge funds lose 3.4% over third quarter – DNB
Local hedge funds’ assets contract by nearly 3%, watchdog says
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NewsDutch considering internal risk models to encourage local investment
Committee chair sets out to clear up ambiguities of prudent person approach
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NewsABP settles last remaining mortgage-backed securities lawsuits
Dutch civil service pension fund reaches agreements with Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley
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German institutions turning from equities to alternatives – Universal survey
Nearly 80% of respondents believe financial crisis ‘not at an end’
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AlpInvest takes over management of life science funds of funds
Private equity investor to run Indiana Future Fund, Inext Program
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NewsDenmark's Industriens invests in first Danish PPP project
Pension fund to build, run radiotherapy wing at Næstved Hospital
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ESMA publishes final reporting guidelines for AIFM Directive
Agency calls for additional periodic reporting for alternative investment funds
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NewsMost pension funds spared by new OTC derivatives rules, experts say
GLOBAL – Non-cleared OTC derivatives ‘could be less restrictive than originally thought’.
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PGGM to invest in offshore natural gas pipeline network
NETHERLANDS – Asset manager to take 33.2% stake in owner of Northern Offshore Gas Transport.
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NewsUnipension extends responsible investment guidelines
DENMARK – Danish pension fund's guidelines to cover real estate, private equity.
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NewsSPVG continues battle with DNB over gold allocation
NETHERLANDS – Pension fund pursues €11m compensation claim after regulator loses appeal.
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Norway urged against creation of standalone real estate vehicle
NORWAY – Conservative Party’s proposal to split fund would ‘jeopardise economies of scale’.
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NewsUK must launch independent infrastructure authority – report
UK – Body launched by UK opposition backs commission similar to design of Infrastructure Australia.
