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SURVEY: Two thirds of panel will not raise hedge fund exposure
Global Pensions |
06 Jul 2010 | 
Just a third of respondents intend to or already have increased their exposure to hedge funds this year, despite assets under management expected to exceed record levels in 2010.
SURVEY - Almost 95% of schemes do not intend to sue BP
More than 94% of respondents to the Global Pensions 100 Panel said they had no intention of taking legal action against BP to recoup losses to their investments following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Nearly 60% of pension funds feel safer after EU rescue package
GLOBAL – Just under 60% of respondents to the Global Pensions 100 Panel said they felt more comfortable holding eurozone debt and equities following the approval of a rescue package for struggling countries of the single currency area.
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Majority of pension schemes believe private equity mangers will pass on extra costs
GLOBAL – Almost three in four (72.7%) respondents said they believed the additional costs incurred by their private equity managers to provide supplementary and timelier information would be passed on to pension funds.
Almost one fifth diversify away from market-cap
GLOBAL - Nearly 18% of our respondents said they have tried recently to move their passive assets away from market-cap weighted indices.
Only 12% of schemes are looking at microfinance
GLOBAL - Only 11.8% of respondents to the Global Pensions 100 Panel said they have made or are considering making investments in microfinance vehicles. The results, come after the California State Teachers’ Retirement System began last month a discussion surrounding the merits of microfinance investments.
GP100 Panel shun UCITS-compliant hedge funds
GLOBAL – The totality of the respondents to this month’s GP 100 panel said they are neither investing nor considering investing in UCITS-compliant hedge funds.
Majority of panelists have not looked at longevity insurance
GLOBAL - Well over two-thirds of respondents said they have not considered insuring their longevity risk.
80% of GP100 schemes do not use fundamental indexing
GLOBAL - Only 22.2% of the respondents of the Global Pensions 100 Panel said they are using fundamental indexing in their portfolios.
One-third of panellists feel restricted
Nearly one-third of panellists said the investment rules they operate under are too restrictive and could prevent them from reaching their investment goals.
Majority of panel support Obama’s bank measures
Over 63% of the respondents of Global Pensions 100 Panel said US president Barack Obama’s proposals to help keep banks from becoming too big to fail will have a positive effect on the asset management industry.
GP Panel holds back on emerging markets
Nearly 60% of those polled in the Global Pensions 100 Panel have not been increasing their exposure to emerging markets, despite the regions’ strength coming out of the financial crisis.
Minority of panel members ask for first-time contributions
Just over 7% of GP panel members surveyed this month have had to ask employees to contribute to their pension funds for the first time.
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