All Alternatives articles – Page 99
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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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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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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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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.
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AP3 taps Aberdeen for €221m in real estate
SWEDEN – AP3, the SEK196.1bn (€21.7bn) Swedish buffer fund Tredje AP-fonden, has appointed Aberdeen Property Investors to build a European real estate equity fund portfolio worth SEK2bn (€221m).
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Unilever taps Kottmann for hedge fund advice
UK – Unilever has appointed Kottmann Advisory as external consultant to advise its pension fund on hedge fund-of-fund investments, in a move to launch a pooled investment fund in January.
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Schroders buys German real estate manager
GERMANY - Schroders says it has agreed to buy German real estate asset manager Aareal Asset Management GmbH for an initial £18.8m (€28m) from Aareal Bank.
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Alternatives chief to chair Dexia AM
EUROPE – Dexia has named Naïm Abou-Jaoudé to succeed Hugo Lasat as chairman of the management board of Dexia Asset Management.
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Robeco takes 64% stake of SAM Group
EUROPE – Robeco has taken a 64% stake in Swiss-based SRI firm Sustainable Asset Management for an undisclosed sum.
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Suffolk in search for currency overlay manager
UK – The £1.2bn (€1.8bn) Suffolk County Council Pension Fund is looking to award a £403m currency overlay mandate for its overseas currency exposure.
