All Features articles – Page 330
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The secret of 'timing' success
Market timing is certainly a perilous activity and perhaps a foolhardy one. However, varying market class weights in response to changing forecasts for asset class returns covers a wide range of strategies – from aggressive short-term tactical asset allocation programmes through to multi-year reviews of strategic policy. These are very ...
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Absolute rules
Chastened by the experience of a three-year bear market in equities, European pension funds are moving from away from traditional benchmarks and relative returns toward ‘liability-driven’ strategies and absolute returns. Certainly this is the picture that alternative asset managers, and some traditional asset managers, are painting. Mark Rosenberg, head of ...
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Gaining efficient access to hedge fund strategies
Funds of hedge funds (FoHF) have become a popular way for new hedge fund investors, both private and institutional, to gain access to the attractive performance characteristics of hedge fund strategies. These products provide investors with efficient exposure to a diverse range of alternative investment strategies and the unique skills ...
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Higher on agenda
It’s been a difficult year for the UK pensions industry. Continued adverse market conditions, a flurry of new government legislation, increasing scheme maturity and pension fund deficit stories hitting the front pages of the national press have left the UK to think long and hard about how it should be ...
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Nestle stays ahead of the pack
The €4bn Nestlé pension fund in Switzerland has perhaps gone farthest down the road of any European pension fund in embracing alternative investment in the pursuit of absolute returns. Its current exposure of 15% of assets to hedge funds is probably the largest of any pension fund in the world. ...
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How much should be allocated to alternatives?
A new study carried out by Dexia Asset Management shows the benefits of allocating 15% to 20% of a portfolio to alternative funds. Finding a good balance between risk and return is the first aim of any investment strategy. Modern portfolio management theory suggests diversification, so as to cope with ...
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Art for investment's sake
Any dealer will give prospective investors the same advice – spend as much as you can afford, buy the very best work available and be prepared to hold on to it for 10 years. This mantra is central to the ethos of Philip Hoffman’s new Fine Art Fund. Hoffman, a ...
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Slow progress awaits reforms
Since the law regarding the creation of new pension funds in Italy came into force in 1993 the market has been developing slowly. A significant number of new pension funds are now fully operational but assets and subscribers are still low. However, 2002 was a good year for the consolidation ...
