November 2014
News CalPERS Commits $80 Million with GCM Grosvenor in California-focused Private Equity Fund
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has committed $80 million with GCM Grosvenor (Grosvenor) in a California-focused private equity fund. The new commitment will be deployed through a direct investment vehicle starting by the end of the current (...)
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October 2014
News PRIAC selected to provide longevity reinsurance to Legal & General for a portion of its bulk annuity portfolio
Prudential Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company (PRIAC), a Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) company has announced that it will provide reinsurance to UK based insurer...
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October 2014
Note Hedge fund capital inflows steady as volatility increases
Total hedge fund capital increased to a record level in the third quarter as financial market volatility increased into quarter-end, with inflows concentrated in Event Driven and Fixed Income-based Relative Value Arbitrage strategies, according to the latest HFR Global Hedge (...)
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October 2014
Strategy Short Term CTAs to the Rescue
Overall, the Lyxor Hedge Fund index is down 1.2% during the period under review, while the S&P 500 is down almost 2%. The sophisticated risk management practices of hedge funds are now being tested. Some funds are actually doing well in the current (...)
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October 2014
News Alternative investors hunt yield in post crisis Europe under review at Debtwire’s European Forum
Debtwire hosts its seventh European forum at the Dorchester in London today. Senior bankers, lawyers, investors, financial sponsors, corporate finance and debt advisory specialists will provide their insight on the current state of the debt market, spanning from primary (...)
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October 2014
News CalPERS Selects GCM Grosvenor to Run $200 Million Private Equity Emerging Manager Fund-of-Funds
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has announced that GCM Grosvenor (Grosvenor) has been selected to run the System’s new $200 million private equity emerging manager commitment. The new commitment will be deployed through a fund-of-funds vehicle (...)
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September 2014
Innovation IM Square, An innovative European platform dedicated to the development of asset managers
IM Square is an innovative project in Europe offering a new and complementary approach to asset management by combining financial and industrial partnerships. The objective is to create a virtuous ecosystem bringing together entrepreneurial asset management companies, (...)
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September 2014
Strategy CalPERS Eliminates Hedge Fund Program in Effort to Reduce Complexity and Costs in Investment Portfolio
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced that it will eliminate its hedge fund program, known internally as the Absolute Return Strategies (ARS) program, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce complexity and costs in its investment (...)
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August 2014
News New joint venture established for private equity investments in climate-related transactions throughout Asia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), ORIX Corporation (ORIX) and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (Robeco) today announced the formation of Asia Climate Partners (ACP), a joint venture that will undertake commercially-oriented private equity investments across a (...)
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August 2014
News Nomura Announces Alliance With Bridge Capital Asset Management
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. announced that it has entered into an alliance agreement with Bridge Capital Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Bridge Capital), an investment manager specializing in incubation funds investing in hedge (...)
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August 2014
News Lyxor pursues its growth momentum in H1 2014 supported by its ETF and Alternative businesses
Lyxor Asset Management has continued its growth momentum, recording a 7% increase in AuM since the end of 2013 thus reaching EUR 86bn of assets under management.
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August 2014
Opinion Don’t cry for Argentina
In accordance with the Right Upon Future Offers or RUFO clause (similar to a conventional clause requiring creditors to be treated pari passu) contained in the 2005 agreement on the restructuring of the debt of the exchange bondholders (preventing Argentina from making more (...)
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July 2014
Note Hedge funds: The CTAs drift
Since mid-2011, CTAs cumulative loss is between -10.6% (HFRI macro systematic index) and -16.8% (Credit Suisse Managed Futures Index). For the first quarter of this year, CTAs show a drawdown of about 3% which is expected to increase in April (-0.66% for HFRX CTA index) (...)
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July 2014
Innovation Lombard Odier Investment Managers launches long/short UCITS fund
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), the asset management arm of the Lombard Odier Group, launches a UCITS-compliant, US-focused, long/short equity fund.
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July 2014
Strategy The potential of trend-following strategies remains intact
Penalised at the peak of the European debt crisis by highly correlated and non-trending markets, trend-following funds have retained their unrivalled ability to improve the efficiency of an investment portfolio. Better consideration of the issues associated with risk (...)
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