Investors

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  CalSTRS approves risk-based asset allocation

  04 Apr 2011

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  Illinois Teachers to rely on fund of hedge funds

  04 Apr 2011

• Texas Teachers needs bill to up allocation

  04 Apr 2011

• UK’s Bexley council pension fund pulls out of Man Group

  04 Apr 2011

• BVK allocates nearly $2bn to managed accounts

  04 Apr 2011

• UK’s Avon pension fund redeems Lyster and cuts Man allocations from its portfolio

  04 Apr 2011

• Mazzocco becomes USC’s first CIO

  04 Apr 2011

• Ohio SERS extends Aksia advisory contract

  04 Apr 2011

• New Jersey considers further boosting brands

  04 Apr 2011

• Texas Tech University adds Tiger cub to allocation

  04 Apr 2011

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  $30bn National Treasury agency set to diversify

  04 Apr 2011

• Fife awards $160m for absolute returns

  04 Apr 2011

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  CalPERS cracks down on gifts (magazine version)

  04 Apr 2011

• NYC pensions to mix FoHFs and direct

  04 Apr 2011

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  Massachusetts Water pension fund seeks a multi-manager

  04 Apr 2011

• New York State switches consultants from Aksia to Albourne Partners

  04 Apr 2011

News

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  Santos takes on marketing role at Kenmar

  04 Apr 2011

• Mirabaud appoints Bricheux to boost business development

  04 Apr 2011

• AquaTerra fund invests in water

  04 Apr 2011

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  Mesirow executive joins new Vestian venture

  04 Apr 2011

• TIAA-CREF subsidiary prepares fund of hedge funds vehicle

  04 Apr 2011

• Double Eagle launches new directional multi-strategy fund

  04 Apr 2011

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  Gottex enters customised FoHF product fray

  04 Apr 2011

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  Signia Wealth boosts ultra high net worth capability with hires

  04 Apr 2011

• Peak Partners grinds out Granite EM fund

  04 Apr 2011

Industry Analysis

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  NAPF debate outlines hedge fund potential for UK pensions

  04 Apr 2011

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  Deutsche Bank survey finds the entrepreneurial spirit is back

  04 Apr 2011

  Bullish sentiment on market performance, flows and industry dynamics were the clear messages from DB’s ninth annual Alternative Investment Survey

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  Credit Suisse survey seeks to separate fact from fiction

  04 Apr 2011

  Research aimed to dispell myths by testing assumptions such as whether funds of funds genuinely ‘faster in but faster out’ than pensions

Profiles

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  Swedish AP funds take different routes to find the alpha holy grail

  04 Apr 2011

  Swedish national buffer funds research hedge funds as they push the alternatives boundary beyond private equity and property

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  SAIL Advisors steers a global path with Asian flavour

  04 Apr 2011

  Hong Kong-based firm builds global capabilities with risk management as a key ingredient

Performance

• Global multi-strategy regains momentum in February to end year to date up 1.21%

  04 Apr 2011

• Despite rising oil prices, credit markets boost arbitrage returns

  04 Apr 2011

• US markets boost lacklustre global equity long/short universe

  04 Apr 2011

• Funds of funds make cautious start to 2011

  04 Apr 2011

Events

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  Value investors take top prizes at the InvestHedge FoHF Awards

  04 Apr 2011

  InvestHedge honoured the best of the best at the ninth annual black-tie funds of funds event in New York. Find out who came out on top

Comment

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  FoHFs and the value of values

  04 Apr 2011

  “Value is not cyclical, it is timeless – it just takes patience”

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  Will consultants face their own big bang over fees?

  04 Apr 2011

  Every particle has an antiparticle, with which it can annihilate

Mandates

• Institutional mandates: April 2011

  04 Apr 2011

  Guide to current hedge fund mandates

Data

• InvestHedge league tables Mar-11

  04 Apr 2011

• Top 10 funds by strategy over the past 3 months

  04 Apr 2011