All Hedge Funds articles – Page 16
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Financial Stability Forum to investigate hedge funds
GLOBAL – The Financial Stability Forum will review in September systemic risks to the global financial system caused by increasing leverage of hedge funds.
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IPE-QUEST- Belgian fund tenders hedge funds
BELGIUM - A Belgian pension fund has tendered a 25 million-euro hedge fund mandate for up to three managers via IPE-Quest.
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Hedge funds could aid pension time bomb – PWC
EUROPE – PricewaterhouseCoopers says hedge funds may be able to help address the European pensions “time bomb”.
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Hedge funds indexation: does it really make sense?
Barely a day passes without the announcement of another significant mandate from a large institutional investor looking to diversify its portfolio of investments by making an allocation to hedge funds. For example, in April it was announced that Railpen in the UK had plans to invest £600m into hedge funds1, ...
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Facing up to hedge funds
The Netherlands has always been fertile soil for the growth of alternative asset classes. Dutch pension funds have a long tradition of private equity investment and are now among the leaders in Continental Europe their use of hedge funds. Industry leaders, like ABP and PGGM, have led the way. These ...
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Clwyd puts E16m into hedge funds with Pioneer
UK - Flintshire County Council has awarded a fund of hedge funds mandate on behalf of the 550 million-pound (834 million-euro) Clwyd Pension Fund to Pioneer Alternative Investments.
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Sweden’s AP1 to look at hedge funds
SWEDEN – The 139 billion-crown (15.2 billion-euro) Swedish buffer fund Första AP-fonden says it plans to research hedge funds.
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Consultants late to hedge funds – HSBC hedge CEO
UK – The chief executive of HSBC’s fund of hedge fund business Republic says pension consultants have been late in realising the benefits of hedge funds.
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Investing in tax-sheltered hedge funds
Supplemental executive pensions and deferred bonus programmes of US corporations, although recognised on corporate balance sheets, have typically not been funded in advance of their distribution dates. CFOs have been convinced corporate assets would earn a higher after-tax rate of return if invested within the company than in a diversified ...
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BNP Paribas AM launches three hedge funds
FRANCE - BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched three hedge funds as part a push into the alternative asset arena.
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TNO puts E30m into hedge funds
NETHERLANDS – The 1.3 billion-euro pension fund of Dutch research institute TNO has allocated 30 million euros to hedge funds, taking the cash out of equities.
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Deutsche’s DWS moving into hedge funds
GERMANY - DWS Investments is moving into hedge funds, and expects to sell one billion euros of its new products in 2004.
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The future for hedge funds
There are some expressions you read about in magazines and hear regularly at conferences these days that most people had never heard of a few years ago. One such expression now heard regularly is: “the search for alpha”. Another is: “absolute return investing for pension funds”. Even now, few of ...
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CSAM aims to attract wary institutions to hedge funds
Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has become the latest global asset manager to move into the direct management of hedge funds.
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PGGM investment chief wary of hedge funds
NETHERLANDS – Roderick Munsters, managing director of investments at the 49.7 billion-euro Dutch healthcare scheme PGGM, says the fund does not regard hedge funds as an asset class.
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Parliament gets to work on hedge funds
With the summer break now over, the legislative machine at Brussels has started to crank back into life. On the slate is a directive aimed at pinning down transparency. Also in the pipeline are a consultation on pensions mobility and the directive on investment services. But perhaps the most interesting ...
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Bringing hedge funds in from the cold
The current discussion in Germany about the deregulation of the hedge fund industry highlights an important issue faced by retail and institutional investors: how to find investments that can weather not only difficult market conditions but also offer potential for attractive future returns? The past three years have shown that ...
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Put 5-10% into hedge funds - ex-Watson partner
UK – Former Watson Wyatt partner and senior investment consultant Stephen Oxley says pension funds should allocate between five and 10 percent to hedge funds.
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Corporate pension funds seen eyeing hedge funds
EUROPE – Corporate pension funds are changing their thinking about hedge funds, prompted by pension obligations being treated as debt, according to a new report by Morgan Stanley.
