CHICAGO -- Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C., the global alternative investment institution, today announced the appointment of Matt Wilson as Head of Sales and Marketing for Citadel Solutions and Citadel Alternative Asset Management. Citadel Solutions is Citadel's recently launched alternative investment management administrative services platform, and Citadel Alternative Asset Management is...
Despite the recommendation of dollar-cost averaging as a superior investment strategy by numerous financial advisors, some studies find it to be suboptimal using a traditional Sharpe ratio performance-ranking metric. However, recent research questions the use of the Sharpe ratio as the preferred performance measure. Using the Sortino and the upside...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Mark Anson, Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS, announced today the appointment of Leon Shahinian as Senior Investment Officer for the pension fund's Alternative Investment Management AIM program. He replaces Rick Hayes who left to become a managing partner of Oak Hill...
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 13, 1998--The California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS has named Richard J. Hayes as a principal investment officer for the Fund's $7.3 billion Alternative Investment Management AIM program.
BP expects to double its investment in alternative and renewable energies, and thus create a new low-carbon business that has growth potential estimated to be $6 billion annually within the next decade. Using BP Solar as a model, the company is forming BP Alternative Energy to manage investment in solar,...
NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley Investment Management ("MSIM") announced today that it has launched the Absolute Return Fund STS, an institutional-quality portfolio of hedge funds for special tax status investors, namely, tax-exempt and tax-deferred individual investors and smaller institutional clients. Expanding on the April 2006 launch of the Alternative Investment...
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 17, 1998--Credit Suisse Asset Management CSAM today announced the integration of Garantia Inc.'s Fund of Funds team into its U.S. operation, BEA Associates. This marks a significant expansion of CSAM's presence in the global market for alternative investment products.
Fortis Investment Management FIM has appointed Albert Mandic as head of alternative investments. Fortis Investment Management FIM has appointed Albert Mandic as head of alternative investments.
Individual investors are hungry. They've got an appetite for strong returns and money to put where their mouths are. But, until few years back, the new markets for alternative investing were as exclusive as Almas caviar, catering only to the tastes of high net worth and large institutional investors. Fortunately,...
NEW YORK -- Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. today announced that Laurie Hodrick is joining the firm as a Managing Director and Global Head of Alternative Investment Strategies within its Global Markets Research unit. Hodrick will be responsible for the formulation, testing and implementation of new investment strategies based on company-related...
In recent years, the flow of funds into alternative investments for pension funds, endowments, and foundations has experienced a dramatic increase. Unfortunately, the very fact that hedge funds and managed futures have only recently come into prominence during the last decade, has meant that they generally have only recently been...
This article explains about that the term hedge fund consists of a number of investment strategies that offer risk and return opportunities not commonly found in traditional long only stock and bond investment. For alternative investments such as hedge funds to grow as an investment alternative, individuals need to increase...
Bank of Ireland Group has boosted its alternative investment offering through the acquisition of hedge fund manager Guggenheim Alternative Asset Management. Bank of Ireland Group has boosted its alternative investment offering through the acquisition of hedge fund manager Guggenheim Alternative Asset Management.
Byline: Christine Williamson and Arleen Jacobius Institutional investors can't get enough of alternative investments. In wide-ranging interviews with chief investment officers at pension funds and endowments, Pensions & Investments found bro Byline: Christine Williamson and Arleen Jacobius Institutional...
NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley Investment Management MSIM announced today that Joseph D. Stecher will be joining Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners ("Morgan Stanley AIP") as Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Firm's real estate fund of funds business and will be responsible for overseeing the identification, selection...
NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) announced today that Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners Morgan Stanley AIP raised $1 billion in commitments for Morgan Stanley Private Markets Fund III ("Private Markets Fund III").
NEW YORK -- Fifth graph, first sentence of release should read: Most recently, Mr. Applegate was with Franklin Templeton where he was Chief Investment Officer for Fiduciary Trust, Fiduciary Global Advisors and Franklin Templeton Alternative Strategies (sted Most recently, Mr. Applegate was with Franklin Templeton where he was Chief Investment...
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