All Hedge Funds articles – Page 9
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Managed managed futures
What value can a fund of funds add for the managed futures investor? Martin Steward asks Thomas Weber of LGT Capital Partners, whose Crown Managed Futures fund is celebrating its tenth birthday
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Hedge Funds: The view from the Hilltop
Martin Steward talks to Rory Hills about what went wrong with the fund of hedge funds industry – and about how to put it right
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Hedge Funds: Making the illiquid liquid
The secondary market in hedge funds is on the rise as investors snap up illiquid portfolios coming onto the market, says Martin Steward
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Asset Class ReportsHedge Funds: Rehabilitated
Since assets under management crashed during the financial crisis the hedge fund industry has experienced a phoenix-like revival in fortunes. But Joseph Mariathasan finds that it is far from back to business as usual
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Hedge Funds: Hedge funds and the crisis
Citi Prime Services canvassed the opinions of hedge funds and hedge fund investors on the impact from and response to the liquidity crisis of 2007-08, and to gauge its longer-term implications for the sector. Sandy Kaul discusses the findings
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Hedge Funds: Angling for alpha: pension funds talk hedge funds
When he isn’t managing the alpha traders at Denmark’s state pension fund, ATP Alpha CEO Fredrik Martinsson likes nothing better than to get out with his rod and line – so it’s no surprise that he reaches for an angling metaphor to explain his understanding of alpha.
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NewsUK NEST rules out infrastructure, hedge funds for immediate future
UK – The UK National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has ruled out any direct investments in infrastructure, commodities and high yield in its first few years of existence.
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NewsASIP members dump hedge funds, return 0% in H1
SWITZERLAND – The median return of a selection of 68 member funds of ASIP, the Swiss Pensionskassen association, was 0% for the first six months of 2010, according to Towers Watson.
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NewsInstitutional investors to flock to hedge funds in next 12 months
GLOBAL - Hedge fund providers are set for a bumper year as one-third of institutional investors revealed plans to increase allocations to the asset class, industry research revealed.
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NewsSwitzerland's BLVK dumps hedge funds, hedges euro
SWITZERLAND – The CHF5bn (€3.7bn) BLVK Pensionskasse for the teachers in the Swiss capital of Bern has been "unconvinced" by the performance of hedge funds and is therefore liquidating the mandate as part of a minor revision to its strategic asset allocation (SAA).
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NewsUnipension drops hedge funds over lack of diversification
DENMARK - Unipension, the administration company managing some DKK80bn (€11bn) for Denmark's Architects’ Pension Fund (AP), the Pension Fund for Danish MAs, MScs and PhDs (MP) and the Pension Fund for Agricultural Academics and Veterinary Surgeons (PJD), is divesting from its fund of hedge fund investments.
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NewsEquities and hedge funds boost Finland’s Fennia
[15:00 CET 25-01] FINLAND – Preliminary results for Pension Fennia, one of the largest pension insurance providers in Finland, revealed equities returned a massive 33.7% on investments while hedge funds delivered 16.4% in 2009.
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NewsWest Midlands finds route into hedge funds after all
[16L45 CEST 09-10] UK – The West Midlands local authority pension fund has extended its alternatives and equities investment strategy and allocated £40m (€44) to a fund of hedge funds.
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A new reality for hedge funds and their investors
The post-Lehman picture for hedge funds shows a leaner industry emerging as investment banks put a lid on leverage
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NewsUSS to invest in evolving hedge funds market
[16:45 CESt 30-06] GLOBAL – The Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s second-largest pension fund, is to begin investing in single strategy hedge funds as officials say they can now get access to the big named brands and corporate governance conditions are improving.
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NewsHedge funds 'victims of crisis, not culprits', says Lhabitant
[13:30 CESt 18-06] EUROPE - Hedge funds were the victims of the financial crisis and not the perpetrators, and they remain an appropriate tool for institutional investors, argued Francois-Serge Lhabitant at the 12th Uhlenbruch Annual Portfolio Management Conference in Frankfurt.
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NewsHedge funds bounce back from troubled year
[15:00 CET 24-03] GLOBAL - Institutional investors considering hedge funds as diversification to declining equity, property or fixed income markets may need to think carefully about doing so as two new reports present conflicting results about the alternative asset class.
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NewsHedge funds and private equity win in diversity push
[16:30 CET 24-02] UK – Pensions funds chose to further diversify their asset allocation strategies last year by investing more of their assets in direct hedge funds and direct private equity while reducing the search for real estate managers, suggests a review of Watson Wyatt’s manager selections.
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NewsEFRP warns hedge funds could flee EU regulation
[13:30 CET 19-02] EUROPE – The European Federation for Retirement Provision has warned the European Commission against “rushing into ill-considered regulation” of hedge funds, as it believes "too stringent regulation" would encourage hedge funds to serve their clients from outside the EU".
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News2008 was a bad year for pressured hedge funds
[15:15 CET 17-02] GLOBAL – Almost all hedge fund strategies posted their worst losses in 2008, according to a report by French business school Edhec.
