Hedge Funds – Page 17
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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.
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Shropshire moves into hedge funds
UK – Shropshire County Council has announced a change in its pension fund benchmark with greater allocation to bonds and the introduction of a hedge fund portfolio.
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France’s COB gives green light to hedge funds of funds
FRANCE – The fund of hedge fund market in France is expected to grow now that it is to receive formal regulation by the French regulator, Commission des Operations de Bourse (COB).
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Pioneer to offer hedge funds in UK
UK – Pioneer Investments, UniCredito’s fund management arm, is to offer its range of hedge funds to UK institutional investors.
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Position data compromises hedge funds - survey
GLOBAL – The disclosure of detailed position-level data is seen as compromising the performance of hedge funds, according to a new survey by Capital Market Risk Advisors and the International Association of Financial Engineers.
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Get to grips with hedge funds
‘More talk than action’ is a comment often made during discussions about hedge funds for European pension funds. In this article, I would like to present the perspective of a pension fund trustee on this topic. The conclusion will be, in short, that the debate about the use of hedge ...
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Hedge funds see steady stream of interest - report
US - Institutions are showing a steady stream of interest in investing in hedge funds, according to new research by industry tracking outfit Tass.
