Hedge Funds – Page 18
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Hedge funds get guarded welcome
Hedge funds now represent a small but significant part of the portfolios of some of Sweden’s foundations. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Reseach (SSF) took its first tentative steps into hedge funds last year. Bjorn Brandt, director of administration at SSF says: “To diversify foundation assets and obtain a performance ...
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Hedge funds: an asset class and a new management model
An objective to generate absolute return During the past 20 years, two types of asset management developed simultaneously, but with different aims. On one hand, the global equity bull market enabled the classic asset management to evolve in a less sophisticated manner, since the achievements were measured through simple benchmarks ...
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LSE defends Hedge funds in shorting row
UK- The London Stock Exchange has contested recent criticism that aggressive short selling, particularly by hedge funds, is to blame for recent equity market volatility. The challenge follows complaints from companies which have led the Bank of England to consider ways of increasing the disclosure of securities lending activities.
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Swiss fund to allocate 3% to hedge funds
SWITZERLAND – The SFr 4.6bn (€3.2bn) Bernische Lehrerversicherungskasse (BVLK), the pension and insurance fund for teachers in the Swiss canton of Berne, is to allocate 3% of its assets to hedge funds to help it achieve its long-term goal of 6.6% returns and to make up for poor overall performance ...
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DKR launches two Irish-listed hedge funds
IRELAND– DKR Capital has launched two funds, the DKR Relative Value and the DKR Relative Value Plus, which will be listed on the Irish stock exchange and targeted at European institutional investors.
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AMEX announces new fund of hedge funds
US/SWITZERLAND – American Express Bank (AEB) has launched its third fund of hedge funds, the global market neutral conservative fund of funds portfolio....
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Man launches new capital guaranteed hedge funds
EUROPE – International alternative investment management company, Man Investment Products (MIP), has launched its latest capital guaranteed product, Man Multi-Strategy Series 3 Ltd, which will be available in both US$ and Euro class bonds....
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Germany's Schoeller launches fund of hedge funds
GERMANY - Schoeller Capital Management (SCM) , the total return products arm of Germany’s HypoVereinsbank Group is launching launching an institutional fund of hedge funds together with its parent group....
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Hedge funds stay in the black despite US crisis
HEDGE FUNDS - The Crédit Suisse First Boston/Tremont (CSFB/Tremont) hedge fund index remains up 0.9% for August, despite a one-week delay attributed to the terrorist attack on New York two weeks ago....
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UK launch of multi-strategy fund of hedge funds
UK – London based alternative investment specialist, Global Investment Advisers (GIA), has launched a multi-strategy tracker fund of hedge funds into the UK market....
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ABP looks to property and hedge funds
NETHERLANDS – Dutch superfund, the NLG331bn (e150bn) Heerlen based ABP pension plan for Dutch civil servants and teachers, says it is considering increasing its allocation to real estate investment and will also shortly announce appointments to a number of hedge fund mandates as part of an e2bn hedge programme....
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Structures to tame hedge funds
Pension professionals are expending considerable amounts of energy on alternative investments, and particularly that category labelled ‘hedge funds’, at a time when the traditional asset mixes of equity, bonds and property are failing to deliver the required level of return and are becoming increasingly correlated. However, even if hedge funds ...
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Hedge funds make five star offshore fund rating
UK – Only two offshore funds have received a five-star rating from independent investment consultant Global Fund Analysis (GFA), with many funds plummeting down the ratings as a result of the technology stock blow-out....
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Man launches fund of hedge funds
UK – Alternative investment group Man, is to launch its first UK-listed fund of hedge funds product, called Man Alternative Investments Limited (MAIL)...
