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Big investors keep faith with hedge funds
Large investors with more than $1 billion allocated to hedge funds plan to maintain or increase their exposure in 2012, a Preqin study has found.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Divergent strategies have pride of place
About 20 per cent of an institutional investors’ hedge fund exposure should be allocated to “divergent” strategies, according to Rob Covino, senior vice president of SSARIS, which has been managing absolute return strategies for 30 years.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
CalSTRS boosts infrastructure exposure
The unique pension fund-owned structure of Industry Funds Management contributed to it winning a large infrastructure mandate from the $144.8 billion CalSTRS, whose risk-based view of the world has it looking for inflation-hedging diversification.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Climate risk disclosure project goes global
An original Australian pilot project to benchmark asset owners on their management of climate change risk will be expanded globally later in the year.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Should US investors have rights offshore?
US institutional investors are discouraged to diversify into offshore shares due to the outcome of a court case which restricts anti-fraud protection. The US case involving the purchase of shares in an Australian bank by Australian investors on an Australian stock exchange has important implications for US institutional investors and their drive to diversify investments
Alternatives the winner of long-term allocation shifts
Allocations to alternative investments of the largest seven pension markets globally (P7) have increased by 15 per cent over the past 16 years, according to Towers Watson. Carl Hess, Towers Watson’s global head of investment, says the study reflects two investment themes in the past few years: globalisation and diversification. While alternatives have increased as
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