All Alternatives articles – Page 98
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Dutch giant looks to the trees (updated)
NETHERLANDS – The €209bn Dutch pension fund ABP is mulling a first foray into timberland investments in a further attempt to diversify its portfolio (update with comments from ABP).
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Morgan Stanley wins university’s €90m alternatives mandate
UK – The £1.3bn (€1.9bn) Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (“Saul”) has awarded a £60m alternatives mandate to Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM).
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Macquarie opens office in Frankfurt and Paris
REAL ESTATE – The real estate fund arm of Australian investment bank Macquarie has this month opened offices in Frankfurt and Paris to step up its investments on the European continent.
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BNP Paribas jumps on to the GTAA train
EUROPE – BNP Paribas has launched its first global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) fund for institutional investors.
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UBS and Bloomberg team up on commodities
SWITZERLAND - UBS and Bloomberg have launched a new range of commodities indices to combat perceived limitations in traditional benchmark products.
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Eurex to offer exchange-traded credit derivatives
GLOBAL – Eurex plans to launch what it says will be the world’s first exchange-traded credit derivatives contract on 27 March.
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Worldwide pensions assets hit €18trn
GLOBAL - Equities out-performance and widespread diversification into alternatives doubled pension fund assets over a 10-year period to $23.2trn(€17.8trn) at the end of 2006, according to investment consultants Watson Wyatt.
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Sampension to up private equity by €100m
DENMARK – The DKK75bn (€10bn) Sampension will increase its private equity exposure from 2% to 3% over the next years.
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SNS goes micro in Emerging Markets
NETHERLANDS – The asset management arm of Dutch bank assurance group, SNS Reaal is launching a €100m institutional investment fund for microcredit.
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€1.2bn Southwark pension fund in portfolio overhaul
UK – The £780m (€1.2bn) Southwark pension fund has appointed Alliance Bernstein and Newton Investment Management as complementary global equity managers. This is part of a major overhaul of the fund’s investment structure.
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Fidelity wants 20% annual growth in fast changing German market
GERMANY – Klaus Mössle, head of institutional business at the German arm of Fidelity Investments, has reaffirmed his ambitious goal of growing that business by 20-30% annually.
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Citigroup Germany names new head of alternative sales
GERMANY – Mathias Giebken has been appointed as Citigroup’s new head of institutional sales for alternative investments in Germany and Austria, it was announced today.
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Gold council to attract pension fund investment online
UK – The World Gold Council will launch a UK knowledge bank website later this month enabling UK pension plans to access research and expertise to deepen the understanding of gold investment.
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ABP declares interest in running Dutch toll roads
THE NETHERLANDS – The €201bn civil service pension fund ABP is willing to operate one or more motorways in the Netherlands as toll roads, its chairman Elco Brinkman said.
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Equities excel while bonds underperform
October was characterised by the improving performance of the stock markets, as indicated by the above average returns of the S&P 500, while volatility remained at the same level as the previous month, still close to its historical lows. Bond market performance declined again, reaching a low, but still positive, ...
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Ten or 12 funds set to dominate
Joseph Mariathasan looks at where the private equity market is heading and asks whether now is the time to subject them to regulatory scrutiny
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Germany’s NAEV ups real estate exposure
REAL ESTATE – Germany’s NAEV, a €7.75bn medical pension fund, will expand investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other real estate securities over the next three years, says Hermann Aukamp, NAEV’s director of real estate.
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FRR awards €150m private equity mandate
FRANCE – The €29bn Fonds de Réserve Pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund, says it has awarded €150m in private equity to AXA Private Equity Europe.
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European institutions ‘uneasy’ about bond trading
EUROPE – European institutions are becoming uneasy about developments in the fixed-income market – fearing hedge funds are taking too much of dealers’ attention, according to Greenwich Associates.
