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10 Mar 2010 | 13:14 |
Raquel Pichardo-Allison speaks to Jonathan Boersma, executive director, Global Investment Performance Standards, at the CFA Institute.
ILPA criticises AIFM provisions on private equity
GLOBAL/EUROPE – The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has criticised the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive for reducing European Union institutional investors’ access to private equity investments.
Global Pensions | 10 Mar 2010
230 hedge funds launched in Q4 2009
GLOBAL – The perfect storm battering hedge funds, of looming regulation worldwide and political vilification in Europe, has not deterred aspiring managers from launching products, as start-ups outnumbered liquidations in the fourth quarter of last year.
Global Pensions | 10 Mar 2010
Other news
A conservative investment approach meant Brazilian pensions suffered only minor...
The service providers of the year were presented their awards...
The Global Pensions 100 Panel was launched in July 2006 and every month asks pension funds two topical questions on events in the pensions industry.
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Ask any asset management expert how they will remember the past decade, and the answers will be unsurprisingly grim. I heard about the end of the defined benefit plan, the swift unwinding of retirement security and the “lost decade”.
Raquel Pichardo-Allison speaks to Jonathan Boersma, executive director, Global Investment Performance Standards, at the CFA Institute.
This year's Global Pensions Currency Management Forum Toronto will take place on Thursday 11th March at the Four Seasons Hotel. The forum will explore how to deal with currency volatility that is being driven by the government debt bubble instead of uncertainly in the markets.
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Comment: And the winners are...
I’m writing this month’s piece on the eve of the Global Pensions Awards 2010. Tomorrow night’s events are the culmination of months of work, not only from the judges and pension funds who took the time to nominate their providers, but from the asset managers that helped manoeuvre their clients through an unpredictable 2009.