Strategically Speaking
Alternatives – with pensions DNA
01 Feb 2012
Sometimes a company’s best investments aren’t in businesses or financial markets. When Jack Coates took over management of the pension plan for US forest products firm Weyerhaeuser in 1985, he was...
Geneva conventions
03 Jan 2012
Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, the 215-year-old Geneva-based banking group,
is, of course, a family business. It is just happy coincidence that both the father and brother of Hubert Keller, who...
Bringing the New World to the Old
03 Jan 2012
The third quarter of 2011 was not much fun for Investec Asset Management (Investec AM). Of the 14 main strategies across its five product streams – ‘4Factor’ equities, contrarian equities,...
Strategic agility
01 Dec 2011
Nordic private equity house CapMan does not make things easy on itself. Its mission statement: “To be the best-performing European private equity firm”.
New entrant to European fiduciary management
01 Dec 2011
Here in Europe, the joke says that British Airways is a pension scheme that owns a few planes. The US equivalent claims that General Motors is a social security fund with a sideline in building...
Clear signals in the fog
01 Nov 2011
When IPE first spoke with Ian Heslop about the post-crisis refinements that Old Mutual Asset Managers (OMAM) had made to its quantitative equity models, it was June of 2011. The sun was shining –...
Happy in its own little world
01 Oct 2011
With new funds springing up or existing ones growing, the winds seem to be blowing favourably again for cleantech investments.
Focus and flexibility
01 Oct 2011
Few can claim to have been investing in emerging markets for 130 years. But Martin Currie & Co was helping to finance the North American railroads in the 1880s, when the US occupied the spot that...
Initiative focused
01 Sep 2011
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has learnt lessons from the past. Losses incurred during 2007-08 by five of its fixed income funds, which were marketed as conservative strategies, led to lawsuits ...
Setting sail for calmer waters
01 Sep 2011
By the time Jeremy Baskin took the helm of AXA Rosenberg, its previous CEO, Stéphane Prunet, had spent 13 months steering the widely-venerated quant house, with great steadfastness, through the worst ...
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