Giovanni Legorano
Pension funds continued to diversify into direct hedge funds and direct private equity, but are allocating significantly less to real estate, Watson Wyatt says.
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By Eadie Chen
BEIJING, Feb 24 (Reuters) – China Investment Corp (CIC), the country’s $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, made a profit of about $10 billion last year as it benefited from staying largely in cash and avoiding new investments in Western banks, a source close to the fund told Reuters on Tuesday.
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While hedge funds continue to hemorrhage assets under management, the private equity industry continues to grow.
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Christoph Lueneburger, Egon Zehnder
International Green investing has long been the purview of venture capitalists but a number of potentially game-changing global trends are converging to put private equity in an advantageous position for entering the renewable energy market.
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LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Global fund managers have raised questions over whether investments in a broad range of asset classes work in the short term, a poll conducted by pension consultant Hewitt revealed on Thursday.
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UK government-owned emerging markets fund of funds manager CDC Group has appointed Shonaid Jemmett-Page as COO.
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Private-equity fund raising in emerging markets rose last year despite a fall across the rest of the world, demonstrating investor confidence in developing economies.
According to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association, the value of the 210 funds raised to invest in emerging markets increased 12% to $66.5 billion.
This is in contrast to a decline in [...]

State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), the world’s leading provider of financial services to institutional investors, announced today the results of the State Street Private Equity Indexsm as of September 30, 2008. The index is based on the latest quarterly statistics from State Street Investment Analytics’ Private Edge® Group and includes more than 1,400 private equity partnerships [...]

Canadian private-equity weathered 2008 crisis better than its U.S. counterparts. According to a new report by Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA).
According to the report, Canada’s buyout community raised $5.6-billion in 2008, up 22% from $4.6-billion in 2007. By contrast the U.S. buyout industry fell by 14%.
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Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System, Honolulu, will issue an RFI on global private equity in the second half of the year, said CIO Rod June.
The $8.68 billion system’s staff already provided information on private equity to the board as part of a review of all asset classes. Data from the RFI will help the board gain [...]