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NICE, France (HedgeWorld.com) - More institutional investors should make room for structured products in their portfolios, according to a new study by Edhec Business School's Risk and Asset Management Research Center.
The research paper, "Structured Forms of Investment Strategies in Institutional Investors' Portfolios," was written by Lionel Martellini, Koray Simsek and Felix Goltz. The paper points out the benefits of structured products with respect to two key areas: diversification and active investing.
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MILAN, Italy - Pioneer Investments, the asset management unit of Unicredit, Italy's largest bank, announced that it has bought New York-based Vanderbilt Capital Advisors, a firm which specializes in fixed-income and structured products for institutional investors. Vanderbilt manages assets totaling $13 billion.
Vanderbilt, which was previously wholly owned by its staff, will operate as a subsidiary of Pioneer Asset Management USA from its existing offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Vanderbilt will also retain its existing staff, with Chief Executive Emad Zikry now reporting to Osbert Hood, chief executive of PAM USA.
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LONDON (HedgeWorld.com) - BlueBay Asset Management plc, the fixed- income credit fund manager, said Wednesday [July 18] that it has been appointed to manage an emerging market portable alpha mandate of approximately $390 million for Australia's QIC, an institutional investor.
The portable alpha transaction was structured by UBS. The portable alpha products are designed to offer investors pure exposure to the hedge fund manager's alpha generation capabilities within its fixed-income funds.
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GENEVA (HedgeWorld.com) - With 60 million euro (US$80 million) in seed capital, Capital Management Advisors launched a new fund of funds that in the future will be linked to several structured products created by Socit Gnrale.
The assets were raised among European institutional investors through structured products linked to the new fund - the Global Diversified Fund. The fund will be linked to the capital guaranteed products and leveraged products and issued in the form of listed notes.
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PARIS (HedgeWorld.com) - At the Edhec-organized ETF conference held in Paris last November the general view was that institutional and, for that matter, retail investment in exchange-traded funds was still on the early section of the development curve, and that there was a lot more investing in ETFs to come. Even so, institutional managers were much more wary of products structured on hedgefund indexes than of other types of ETFs, since available hedge fundtype products had so far failed to adequately replicate the relevant hedge fund universes.
Even so, it seems that not a week goes by without the launch of a new ETF based on an underlying index that refers to one alternative investment universe or another. The latest, SGAM ETF Private Equity LPX50 from Socit Gnrale Asset Management Al...
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