All Alternatives articles – Page 78
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Hackney moves into currency as BGI disappoints
[15:50 CET 13-03] UK - The London Borough of Hackney has appointed FX Concepts to run a specialist £150m (€162m) active currency programme for its local government pension scheme.
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NewsGerman pension vehicles to diversify - Mercer
[16:45 CET 06-03] GERMANY – Retirement providers in Germany are likely to maintain one of the lowest equity exposures in Europe as a result of recent market turbulence but will continue to diversify into other strategies, consultancy Mercer has told IPE.
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FeaturesThe big picture
It would be silly to predict the bottom of a deep recession on the basis of a single month’s volatile manufacturing PMI data
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FeaturesThe riot continues
The conquistador Hernando Cortez once said: “We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart only gold can cure.”
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FeaturesIt’s good to talk
As pension fund investment within the sphere of alternatives grows, David White reports on an innovative platform designed to educate managers about the field through the medium of shared experience
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VBV to raise commodity holding
[17:00 CET 25-02] AUSTRIA – VBV, the largest Austrian Pensionskasse, wants to invest more in commodities and is looking at a foray into infrastructure.
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Hedge funds and private equity win in diversity push
[16:30 CET 24-02] UK – Pensions funds chose to further diversify their asset allocation strategies last year by investing more of their assets in direct hedge funds and direct private equity while reducing the search for real estate managers, suggests a review of Watson Wyatt’s manager selections.
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Pension fund managers back short-selling proposal
[15:45 CET 20-02] NETHERLANDS – Large Dutch pension funds appear to be backing a proposal from the Dutch Financial Market Authority (AFM) to lift the ban on short-selling.
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EFRP warns hedge funds could flee EU regulation
[13:30 CET 19-02] EUROPE – The European Federation for Retirement Provision has warned the European Commission against “rushing into ill-considered regulation” of hedge funds, as it believes "too stringent regulation" would encourage hedge funds to serve their clients from outside the EU".
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2008 was a bad year for pressured hedge funds
[15:15 CET 17-02] GLOBAL – Almost all hedge fund strategies posted their worst losses in 2008, according to a report by French business school Edhec.
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Eumedion seeks end to short-selling bans
[16:00 CET 10-02] EUROPE - Eumedion, the Nethelands-based corporate governance forum for institutional investors, has called on European governments and supervisors to lift the remaining short-selling bans.
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Marsden goes back to his roots at Mercer
[16:00 CET 03-02] EUROPE – Robert Marsden has made an internal shift from Mercer’s multi-manager operation and has moved back into the investment research department he left less than two years ago.
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Pension funds expect hedge fund losses
[14:00 CET 03-02] EUROPE - Almost three quarters of surveyed pension funds expect to see a negative net-of-fee performance of more than 5% on their hedge fund investments for 2008, suggests IPE research.
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Romania allows alternatives in pensions
ROMANIA – Pension funds in Romania are now allowed to invest in private equity and commodities – to some extent.
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FeaturesHarness the winds of change
Ben Funk, Tzvety Petrova, and Dominik Nagly of Liongate Capital argue that recent unprecedented volatility can create opportunities for carefully selected hedge fund strategies
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FeaturesA driving interest in convertible hybrids
Convertibles are on the agenda. They played a leading role in financing the US railroad boom of the start of the 20th century, and in Japan in the 1980s when the countr y’s issuance represented 40% of the global convertible market. Bank recapitalisation will involve them. Goldman Sach’s agreement with ...
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Down to nothing
US President Obama has assumed control of a US economy beset by severe economic woes. With companies going bust, factories closing, businesses retrenching, jobs being lost at an unprecedented rate, consumer spending dropping like a stone, house prices tumbling, and homes repossessed, Obama’s task is both monumental and unenviable. Such ...
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FeaturesSigns of a year of eastern promise
Joseph Mariathasan looks at the economic conditions that have made investing in Asian, and particularly Chinese, private equity favourable
