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Pension Pulse: AIMCo Gains 9.9% Net in 2014
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. AIMCo Gains 9.9% Net in 2014. The Alberta Investment Management Corporation ( AIMCo. Recently announced a total fund net return of 9.9% in 2014. The net of fees return was 11.2% for pension and endowment Clients, and 4.4% for government and specialty fund Clients. Annually, the board and management agree on active return targets consistent with top quartile return on active risk. Since 2009, AIMCo has earned its Clients value add of $2.5 billion net of fees. AIMCo's investment p...
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Pension Pulse: Red Light For Hedge Funds?
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Monday, August 3, 2015. Red Light For Hedge Funds? Julia La Roche of Business Insider reports, Hedge funds are getting smoked by the commodities slump. The collapse in commodity prices has burnt another hedge fund. Vermillion, a commodity hedge fund backed by Carlyle Group, has seen its flagship fund's assets fall from nearly $2 billion to less $50 million, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Carlyle did not return messages seeking comment in time for publication. On Monday, Bloomberg News reported.
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Pension Pulse: Investing In Soros's Protégé?
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Investing In Soros's Protégé? Katherine Burton of Bloomberg reports, Scott Bessent to Start His Own Hedge Fund With $2 Billion From Soros. Scott Bessent, who’s been overseeing George Soros’s $30 billion fortune for the last four years, will leave at the end of 2015 to start his own hedge-fund firm. Bessent has spent much of his career managing money for Soros, overseeing his European investments for about eight years in the 1990s, and returning to the firm in late 2011. Sin...
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Pension Pulse: Going Dutch on Private Equity?
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Monday, August 10, 2015. Going Dutch on Private Equity? Simon Clark of the Wall Street Journal reports, Dutch Pension Fund Demands Full Fee Disclosure From Private-Equity Firms. A Dutch pension fund running €186.6 billion ($204 billion) is to cease investing in outside money managers, including private-equity firms, that don’t fully disclose their fees, a move that echoes concerns raised by a host of U.S. investors. PGGM will gradually introduce its new rules and will stop investing in funds that donR...
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Pension Pulse: The Fed's Deflation Problem?
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Friday, August 7, 2015. The Fed's Deflation Problem? Lucia Mutikani of Reuters reports, Improving U.S. jobs market bolsters case for Fed rate hike. US employment rose at a solid clip in July and wages rebounded after a surprise stall in the prior month, signs of an improving economy that could open the door wider to a Federal Reserve interest rate hike in September. US stock index futures and prices for shorter-dated U.S. Treasuries were trading lower after the data. The dollar rose to a two-...Though hi...
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Pension Pulse: Corruption at CalPERS?
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Monday, March 14, 2011. Marc Lifsher and Stuart Pfeifer of the Los Angeles Times report,. Scathing report alleges corruption at CalPERS. In a scathing report, a former chief executive of the California public employee pension fund was accused of pressuring subordinates to invest billions of dollars of pension money with politically connected firms. The findings of insider dealings at CalPERS could provide fresh ammunition to Republican lawmakers here who want Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. Fixing Californi...
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Pension Pulse: China's Big Bang?
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Nigel Stephenson of Reuters reports, China's devaluation raises currency war fear as Greece strikes deal. China's shock 2 percent devaluation of the yuan on Tuesday pushed the dollar higher and raised the prospect of a new round of currency wars, just as Greece reached a new deal to contain its debt crisis. Stocks fell in Asia and Europe as investors worried about the implications of a move designed to support China's slowing economy and exports. The Australian dollar, often use...
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Lack of adequate retirement income push people to GIS - Aria Pensions
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Lack of adequate retirement income push people to GIS - Aria Pensions. Move away from DB will have negative consequence. Debate on public sector pensions needs to be fact-based: Haslam-Stroud – ARIA post. Pension funds eye ‘bigger position’ in commercial real estate – ARIA post. Postal union continues to fight for DB – ARIA post. Workers turn to retirement accounts for ‘hardship withdrawals’ – ARIA post. Boomerang kids can wreak havoc on retirement plans – ARIA post. ARIA Partners and Friends. The costs ...