All Alternatives articles – Page 84
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FeaturesGrowing demand for thematic ETFs
As the ETF market moves towards more specialist products, Nina Röhrbein looks at fixed income, leveraged and style funds
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FeaturesDark pools
Pirkko Juntunen throws light on the alternative trading systems that are catching on in Europe
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Bricks and mortar
The future looks challenging for private equity real estate funds. Lynn Strongin Dodds reviews the outlook and highlights some of the brighter spots
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Reviewing asset allocation
What are German pension funds really up to? Dirk Söhnholz outlines the findings of a recent survey
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Negative returns for all strategies
All hedge fund strategies posted negative returns in March. Convertible arbitrage registered the most severe loss with -3.26%. Despite the positive impact of bond markets, performance of the convertible arbitrage strategy appears to have been strongly penalised by the negative value of credit spread. Equity market neutral and CTA global ...
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FeaturesHedging against inflation risk
Inflation-linked ETFs can play an important part in protecting the value of a portfolio. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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FeaturesCase study: AP6
Sweden’s private equity national buffer fund AP6 has posted stellar returns over the past five years and its domestic investment remit was recently liberalised, reports Maha Khan Phillips
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AP3 sceptical about hedge fund replicators
[12:30 CEST 24-04] SWEDEN – Dan Bergman, head of risk allocation at Sweden’s SEK225bn (€24bn) AP3 fund, said he is sceptical about so-called hedge fund replicating strategies as a tool for diversification.
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Private equity 'disaster in the making'
[15:00 CEST 11-04] GLOBAL – Baring Asset Management, has warned the private equity and leveraged buyout (LBO) market will collapse in the next 12 to 18 months.
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NewsATP to push private equity fees
[13:00 CEST 10-04] EUROPE - Private equity fees have risen to unreasonable levels, according to ATP, Denmark’s giant labour market supplementary fund, but the fund sees scope for negotiating them down in the future.
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Europe champions governance, risk and LDI – Mercer
[16:30 CEST 07-04] EUROPE – Better governance and risk management, along with increased allocations to alternatives and liability-driven investment strategies are the main agenda points in 2008 for European pension funds, consultancy firm Mercer has found.
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FeaturesWhat to do when the wolf is at the door
Next to banks, pension funds are the second largest investor in European private equity. As investors they may be involved, as limited partners, in the leveraged buyouts of companies and their pension schemes - a subject of considerable controversy recently. Pension fund boards therefore face a dilemma: private equity can ...
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BLPK at top end of Swiss performers
[16:30 CET 26-03] SWITZERLAND – The CHF5.2bn (€3.3bn) Basellandschaftliche Pensionskasse generated a 4%return on investments in 2007.
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Dorset splits £35m active currency mandate
[14:00 CET 14-03] UK – Dorset County Council Pension fund has appointed two active currency managers to run mandates valued at £35m (€46m).
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LPFA appoints JPMorgan to administer alternative assets
[16:45 CET 13-03] UK – The £3.7bn (€4.8bn) London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA) has appointed JPMorgan to provide portfolio administration and performance reporting for their alternative investment portfolio.
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Size and diligence slow ATP's private equity shift
[15:55 CET 12-03] DENMARK – The ATP pension fund has only invested around half of the amount in private equity it originally intended seven years ago, largely because of the unexpectedly high volume of due diligence work it has had to do.
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Alternatives transparency and risk "more important" - PwC
[17:00 CET 11-03] GLOBAL – Institutional investors place more focus on transparency and risk management than the actual performance of a fund when reviewing alternative investment managers, PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed.
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ETFs can be cheaper than niche indices – dbx
[16:50 CET 11-03] EUROPE – Pension funds should not consider exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to be expensive compared with index-tracking because access to exposure to emerging markets investments, in particular, can be cheaper than dealing direct, according to DB X-Trackers.
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FeaturesFI and multi-strategy lose out
Funds of Funds, like hedge funds, got off to a rough start to 2008, and the Eurekahedge Fund of Funds index had its worst month since inception, losing 2.9 %.
