All Alternatives articles – Page 88
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Knitting together the EU quilt
Europe requires private placements. Iain Morse reports on how this can be achieved
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Resurrecting endowments
Despite being debased by mis-selling scandals, traded endowment and traded life policies have a new life in the secondary market, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Come rain or come shine
With global warming no longer an ‘if’ but a ‘when’, interest has been growing in generating uncorrelated portfolio returns through weather-related risk instruments. John Bonaccolta reports
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The answer lies in the soil
As the world wakes up to the scarcity of land and turns its attention to food production needs, perhaps agricultural land makes serious investment sense. David White reports
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Welsh £50m currency brief awarded
[16:15 CET 31-10] UK – The £1.36bn (€1.9bn) Council of Rhondda Cynon Taf pension fund has hired Record Currency Management for its first foray into currency investment.
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Call for pension funds to push OTC standards
[12:00 CEST 24-10] GLOBAL - Asset servicing giant Northern Trust says pension funds could face higher than necessary costs unless they put pressure on asset managers to adopt standardised language when trading in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.
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New hedge fund performance labels suggested
[16:30 CEST 22-10] GLOBAL – The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has suggested hedge funds should be differentiated by 'cluster analysis' instead of categorising them by investment style.
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Kier Group refutes buyout rumours
[15:30 CEST 22-10] UK – The Bedfordshire-based construction company Kier group has confirmed it is not thinking of selling its £540m (€774m) pension fund to a specialist buyer.
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JPMAM brings four 130/30 strategies to Europe
[14:00 CEST 17-10] EUROPE – JPMorgan Asset Management(JPMAM), one of the pioneers of the 130/30 strategy in the US, has joined a host of new entrants to the UK market with the launch of four new funds for institutional investors.
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FRR tenders €2bn in commodities mandates
[16:40 CEST 16-10] FRANCE – The €33.4bn Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) is looking for commodity managers.
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ABP and PGGM award €2bn mezzanine brief to AlpInvest
[13:30 CEST 16-10] NETHERLANDS - Private equity investor AlpInvest Partners has been awarded a €2bn mezzanine mandate from the two largest Dutch pension funds ABP and PGGM. The two pension funds own the private equity investor jointly.
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Ideas aired for pre-retirement DC guarantees
[16:30 CEST 12-10] GLOBAL – Pensions experts at life assurer Standard Life are investigating ideas which could give defined contribution pension members improved flexibility and security in their retirement benefits.
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TNO considers commodities
[12:00 CEST 10-10] NETHERLANDS - Pensioenfonds TNO, the €2bn pension fund of the applied scientific research institute, has said it is considering to diversify its portfolio further by investing in commodities.
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ABP and PGGM invest in windmills and biomass
[16:45 CEST 08-10] NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension giants ABP and PGGM have made a combined €200m investment into a new sustainable energy fund set up together with sustainable energy project developer Evelop.
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The challenge to deliver China exposure
Recent studies suggest Chinese hedge funds are becoming more like their counterparts elsewhere. Richard Newell reports
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West Sussex splits private equity holding
[16:30 CEST 05-10] UK – The £1.5bn (€2.2bn) West Sussex County Council pension fund has appointed the Swiss alternative investment house Partners Group as an additional private equity manager, IPE has learned today.
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Pension funds eye traded life strategies
[16:30 CEST 03-10] EUROPE – European institutional investor interest in traded life policy (TLP) funds has risen since the recent subprime credit crunch, according a report prepared by Bristol Business School for Managing Partners Limited (MPL).
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A matter of experience
When it comes to picking a 130/30 manager, the track record counts, writes Pirkko Juntunen
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NPRF seeeks technical changes to commodities
[17:00 CEST 28-09] IRELAND – The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) is planning to improve its futures and spot pricing decisions by appointing an external firm to take on the process.
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Gottex wins new local authority mandate
[14:00 CEST 28-09] UK – Lancashire County Council pension fund has hired Gottex Fund Management to manage a £100m (€143m) fund of hedge funds (FoHFs).
