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No standards, no deal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
Eight out of ten UK pension funds said they would favour a hedge fund manager who has complied with the Hedge Fund Best Practice Standards, according to a KPMG survey. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the Hedge Fund Working Group (HFWG). ...

ING names new sales & marketing FM head

... Services as head of research, in charge of fund manager selection and review, model portfolio construction and asset allocation. Besides working with research houses, external platforms and dealer group researchers, Wadhera will also manage a team of ...

Aon hires Russell for FM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Aon Consulting Australia has appointed multi-manager specialist Russell Investment Group to manage the firm's master trust's $1.6 billion in assets and develop a range of specialist investment options. Aon Consulting (Aon) Master Trust investment options ...

Purist private equity adds value

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
Previously cheap debt and easy access to capital have seen private equity (PE) top the money-spinning investment rungs, but as the global liquidity crunch continues to grow, an alternative form of PE investment is rising to take advantage of the market ...

FIRST Super, TISS and PPWSF to merge

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... officer presiding over the combined fund is expected to be appointed this month. First Super's investment strategy, asset allocation and the appointments of investment managers are also estimated to be finalised by April. The Steering Committee has appointed ...

MAN hedge fund gets top rating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... portfolio, said Davis. This higher alpha objective is facilitated by a relatively concentrated and flexible tactical asset allocation approach. "While the fund is a new product with a limited track record the underlying master fund that this fund invests ...

Capital guaranteed on winning streak

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... February. "It's very simple - we give the money to AMP, and we invest in the AMP capital guaranteed product. Their asset allocation is very heavily weighed towards cash and fixed interest, which in the current market have done so much better than the ...

Pension funds look in-house for governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... the UK and mainland Europe will face tighter governance monitoring this year, according to a Mercer survey. The Asset Allocation Survey and Market Profiles study examined 849 European and UK pension funds representing $642 billion in assets and found ...

Aberdeen adds to fixed income Core

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... correlated to one another. Also you can take advantage of changes in the economic cycle through using tactical asset allocation." According to Bovingdon, the fund employs a unique derivative strategy which combines an interest rate and currency overlay ...

Vanguard appoints new IS head

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... Institutional Sales and Client Relationship Management. Most recently, he managed Vanguard's rebalancing and asset allocation service and coordinated Vanguard's investment research activities.