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Berkshire Pension Fund calls on Cambridge Strategy for currency overlay
Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund, Maidenhead, England, hired The Cambridge Strategy to run a passive currency overlay for the £1.5 billion ($2.3 billion) fund.
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Currency volatility can be antidote for interest rate risk
Worldwide, investors in fixed-income portfolios share a common concern — the risk of rising interest rates as global economies recover and central banks tighten monetary policy.
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Dan Fuss comments on the fiscal cliff, EuropeThe economic outlook for 2013 remains clouded by the on-going fiscal cliff talks in Washington and overall government debt levels here and abroad, Loomis Sayles Vice Chairman Dan Fuss, said in a recent P&I interview.
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Aberdeen's AUM increases 10.2%
Aberdeen Asset Management on Monday reported £187.2 billion ($300 billion) in assets under management as of Sept. 30, a 10.2% increase from a year earlier and up 2.5% from the previous quarter.
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Ohio Schools makes first move into local currency emerging markets
Stone Harbor Investment Partners won the largest of three mandates from Ohio School Employees Retirement System.
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Indiana Public Retirement targets $500 million to commodities
Indiana Public Retirement System hired CoreCommodity Management to run $500 million, split evenly in two separately managed active commodities portfolios.
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Pareto to become part of Insight Investment Management
Currency manager Pareto Investment Management will become a unit within LDI specialist Insight Investment Management.
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Enhanced cash strategies grow popular with institutional investorsInterest in enhanced cash strategies has returned, despite major upheaval during the global financial crisis. But this time, managers are warning clients to be careful.
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British banks' pension funds boosted allocation to cash in 2011
Three of the U.K.'s four largest banks put more of their pension fund assets into cash than any of the other 20 companies with the largest pension funds last year, according to a survey by the Bloomberg Risk newsletter.
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Money managers experiment with best forex recipeMore investors are finding that active foreign exchange strategies might be better suited as a side rather than a main dish when serving up alpha, turning up the heat on currency managers to deliver added value, consultants and pension executives say.
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Graphic: Currency spot volatility, EAFE & EMGraphic: Currency spot volatility, EAFE & EM
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The state of currency investing
More investors are finding that active foreign exchange strategies might be better suited as a side rather than a main dish when serving up alpha.
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Currency risk emerges as a major driver of returnsCurrency risk — which already packs a punch as part of any emerging markets investment portfolio — could become an even larger source of returns in the future, according to money managers.
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Graphic: Currency index returnsGraphic: Currency index returns
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Wiltshire County fund picks 6 for absolute return, currency hedging
Wiltshire County Council Superannuation Fund, Trowbridge, England, hired a total of six managers to be put on two preapproved lists to manage a multiasset absolute-return portfolio and a dynamic currency hedging strategy.
