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Hedge funds battle identity crisis

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... Highlighting how polar attitudes towards the product type have become in recent years, researcher Preqin says 49% of public pension funds decreased hedge fund allocations in the past year while 47% increased exposure. Compounding the problems for hedge ...

Swedish pension giant commits to total decarbonisation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
One of Sweden's largest pension funds has made the biggest single commitment to low carbon investing by an institutional investor. In order to reduce its exposure to climate risk, The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, known as AP4, has allocated ...

Foreign investment bound for South Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... availability of transport and power infrastructure," Doroudi said. The technology investment is timely given global pension funds have been widely investing in Australian agriculture. Previous analysis of the world's largest agri-related funds highlights ...

Fidante manager closes $400m industrial water fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
... first institutional fund exclusively focused on financing industrial water infrastructure projects." BAE Systems Pension Funds Investment Management alternatives investment manager Vikram Aggarwal commented on the attractive return potential, saying ...

Chinese and Dutch investment giants explore long-term alliance

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... assets for ABP, which is the Netherlands' pension fund for government and education employees, and one of the largest pension funds in the world. E Fund Management, meanwhile, provides active equity, index, fixed income and diversified strategies for ...

CalPERS increasing emerging manager exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
One of the world's largest pension funds is aiming to have US$11 billion ($15 billion) dedicated to emerging and transition investment managers by 2020. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) told the Global Entrepreneurship Summit ...

Instos begin litigation against Volkswagen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... institutional investors make up the suit, including sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, public pension funds, and multinational company pension plans and foundations. "In addition to the funds that are currently participating, Bentham ...

Former CalPERS CEO jailed

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... to four-and-a-half years in prison for accepting bribes during his term at the helm of one of the world's largest pension funds. The Sacramento Bee reports Fred Buenrostro admitted collecting more than US$250,000 in cash and other bribes from his friend ...

Equities out, alternatives in for pension funds

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
Large pension funds, including superannuation and sovereign wealth funds, are increasing their exposure to alternatives to preserve or improve return, according to the OECD 2015 Large Pension Funds Survey. The report noted that pension funds in general ...

Good asset owners benchmarked at $30bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... industry discussion, Ford said there were more than 34,000 asset managers across the world and questioned whether pension funds needed that many components to make the industry work efficiently. Looking to the future, he said the disintermediation of ...