All Alternatives articles – Page 92

  • News

    Parliament seeks trustee advice

    2007-06-19T15:09:11Z

    [16:09 CEST 19-06] UK – Trustees of the £280m (€414m) Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund of the House of Commons are looking for investment advice.

  • News

    Private equity markets to fall, warns Munsters

    2007-06-18T16:20:54Z

    [17:20 CEST 18-06] NETHERLANDS – Roderick Munsters, chief investment officer at the giant Dutch pension fund ABP, says there are opportunities to be had in declining private equity markets.

  • News

    Schroders named as Shetland manager

    2007-06-14T11:57:40Z

    [12:57 CEST 14-06] UK – The Shetland Islands Council has named Schroders as the manager awarded a £20m (€29.6m) UK property mandate.

  • Features

    The rise of alternative alternatives

    June 2007 (Magazine)

    As investors discover all that glisters is not gold, long-only asset classes are becoming the new alternatives, Amin Rajan discovers

  • Features

    Should I start an Asian hedge fund?

    June 2007 (Magazine)

    Paul Smith has some sound advice for anyone thinking that idea sounds like fun

  • Features

    Who makes the grade in Asia?

    June 2007 (Magazine)

    In the first of two articles, Debra Ng of Albourne Partners summarises hedge fund due diligence process around the region, based on the group's research

  • News

    German managers "at disadvantage" in commodities and LDI - Fitch

    2007-06-13T12:17:13Z

    [13:17 CEST 13-06] GERMANY – Asset managers in Germany are at a competitive disadvantage to interloping foreign houses in the commodities and liability-driven investments (LDI) markets, Fitch Ratings has claimed.

  • News

    Pension fund interest in private equity rises 26%

    2007-06-12T15:51:24Z

    [16:51 CEST 12-06] EUROPE – Private equity firms in Europe raised a record sum of €112bn in 2006, an increase of 56.4% from the year before, and pension funds contributed more than ever to this growth.

  • Features

    FOFs ride global revival

    June 2007 (Magazine)

  • News

    Flurry of alternatives services emerge

    2007-06-07T15:53:20Z

    [16:53 CEST 07/06] GLOBAL - Asset management houses are rushing to cater to European pension fund demand for alternative investments, with the launch of several new funds and services.

  • News

    FRR chooses three more for private equity

    2007-06-06T16:03:04Z

    [17:03 CEST 06/06] FRANCE – The €32bn Fonds de réserves pour les retraites (FRR) has awarded mandates to Pantheon Ventures, Access Capital Partners and Lehman Brothers International Europe.

  • News

    Credit Suisse to diversify LDI into euros

    2007-06-06T09:54:24Z

    [10:55 CEST 06/06] EUROPE - Credit Suisse is expanding its liability driven investment offering into the European pensions sector with the launch of a Euro Diversified Growth LDI fund later this summer.

  • Special Report

    The new liquid gold

    June 2007 (Magazine)

    In the search for an asset that yields close to that of equities, biofuels could provide interesting investment opportunities. Nina Röhrbein reports

  • Special Report

    Down to the woods

    June 2007 (Magazine)

    For those investors prepared for the long haul, timberland has proved to be a stable, long-term investment with good annual returns. Nina Röhrbein reports

  • Special Report

    Encouraging best practice

    June 2007 (Magazine)

    Property and alternatives managers are also taking action in the area of ESG, writes Lynn Strongin Dodds

  • News

    Hedge fund appetite creates new vehicle

    2007-05-31T15:30:06Z

    [16:30 CEST 31/05] GERMANY – The Pensionskasse for doctors in the Northrine area will invest around €200m in a new bespoke hedge fund product.

  • News

    ‘Disappointing’ plans threaten private equity law

    2007-05-29T16:02:46Z

    [17:02 CEST 29/05] GERMANY – The German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) has called a paper outlining the German ministry of Finance’s (BMF) stance on Germany’s new private equity law “a total disappointment”.

  • News

    NBIM appoints real estate manager

    2007-05-22T15:28:30Z

    [16:27 CEST 22/05] NORWAY – Paul Golding is joining Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to prepare what appears to be the bank's first foray into international real estate to invest assets of the NOK1.88trn (€230bn) Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global.

  • News

    Institutional push for 130/30 returns

    2007-05-21T15:55:03Z

    [16:55 CEST 21/05] EUROPE – Institutional managers and investors are jumping further into 130/30 strategies to gain higher investment returns, according to Dutch Blue Sky Group, the manager of the KLM pension fund assets.