All Alternatives articles – Page 7
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NewsDanish FSA sees room for improvement in way pension funds’ value alternatives
Watchdog reacts to analysis showing widely divergent stated 2022 returns for Danish pension funds’ unlisted assets
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NewsItaly roundup: PreviAmbiente sets up new equity sub-fund
Plus: Inarcassa, Enpav expect positive returns in 2023; INPGI picks alternative investments funds
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Alternative risk premia strategies stand tall amid turmoil
While bond and equity markets have been pummeled in 2022, Alternative Risk Premia strategies have at last been able to demonstrate their diversification prowess. Will this year’s performance restore investor confidence in these strategies after the painful results of 2020?
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German pension funds look at ESG to invest in alternatives
Investors understand that alternative asset classes are more than a short-term replacement for bonds, says MEAG
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Country ReportNordic region: Interview with Richard Gröttheim, AP's outgoing CEO
Richard Gröttheim, AP7’s outgoing CEO tells Pirkko Juntunen about a pension system that many countries are keen to learn from
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Recalibrating alternative allocations for a new market
Geopolitics, inflation, and central bank policy have agitated financial markets in 2022, leaving returns and diversification in short supply. A comparison of global equities and bonds provides a sense of just how challenging the results have been.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Asset allocation – factoring inflation
As inflation keeps beating records, real incomes remain under pressure and the standard approaches to diversification are challenged
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To rebalance or not? Dutch pension funds face dilemma as illiquids exceed limits
Bpf Bouw will sell close to €3bn in hedge fund investments and is also reconsidering its private equity and real estate holdings
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Asset Class ReportsPrivate markets: Is tokenisation a good idea?
Digital tokens are being promoted as a way for small investors to access private assets
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Country ReportSwitzerland: Pension funds edge towards alternative investments
Swiss pension funds are cautiously but decisively taking steps to build a portfolio of alternative investments
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NewsAustrian Pensionskassen cut equities, up alternative investments in H1
Austrian Pensionskassen returned -8.78% in the first half of this year, down from 7.63% recorded in 2021
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FeaturesMarket overview: German institutional investors manage uncertainty
At mid-year 2022, the volume of Spezialfonds – the German vehicle for professional investors – administered on Universal Investment’s platform was €498bn, a rise of around 5% year on year. On a six-month basis, however, and compared with the end of the booming stock year 2021, asset volumes were down around 3%.
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FeaturesFixed income, rates & currency: Central banks act tough
This year’s Jackson Hole Symposium, an annual high-level event sponsored by the Reserve Bank of Kansas, yielded relatively little policy news. But the fighting talk from the US Federal Reserve and others was striking. Fed chair Jerome Powell’s speech was markedly more hawkish than expected, while Isabel Schnabel, board member of the European Central Bank, referred to the need for central banks to act ‘forcefully’ because “both the likelihood and the cost of current high inflation becoming entrenched in expectations are uncomfortably high”.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Five myths about alternative investments
Alternatives can help investors pursue their goals by being a source of new opportunities
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Pension funds ratchet up search for private market alternatives
At the same time new searches for listed equity and bond managers fell to new lows, with the exception of EM
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NewsSwiss Pensionskassen continue to bump up infrastructure investments
More than a quarter of pension funds plan to increase allocations to infrastructure and 69% plan to maintain their current strategic allocation intact
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NewsItalian pension schemes to further increase exposure to alternatives
Majority of industry-wide pension funds (88%) is investing through mandates this year, up from 79% last year
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Alecta loses international real assets chief to Heimstaden
Sweden’s biggest pension fund says Heijbel was key part of its work to grow the real assets portfolio
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NewsFCA issues warning to alternative investment bosses via open letter
For the UK’s status to be retained, its markets must remain clean, liquid, and orderly, letter states
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Poll shows 10 percentage-point rise in ESG use by alternatives investors over 3 years
Two thirds of European investors in private equity, infrastructure, now have climate policies compared to less that a quarter of their US peers, new survey shows
