Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 771
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Features
Blending in alternatives
The inclusion of alternative investment strategies, like hedge funds, in institutional portfolios is a hot topic at the moment. Pension funds in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Scandinavia, as well as US funds, have expressed a willingness to consider these vehicles as potential asset classes. A report by Indocam/Watson Wyatt predicts ...
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MSCI smooths the way for free float switch
MSCI has finally announced that it is to recalibrate its global equity indices for free float – representing the portion of shares that are actually available to the market – in a move likely to have a huge trading impact as investors adjust their portfolios. Estimates for assets benchmarked against ...
