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CIO PANEL DISCUSSION
Chief investment officers of the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA: Jang Dong-hun), the Teachers Pension (Lee Kyu-hong) and the Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-Aid Association (Huh Sung-moo) will participate in a CIO panel discussion on May 12. Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Executive Director Jeon Kyung Chul will accompany them to the discussion.
POBA CIO Jang Dong-hun (second from left), Teachers Pension CIO Lee Kyu-hong (center) and SEMA CIO Huh Sung-moo (far right)
LP PANEL SESSIONS
For the hedge fund segment, three senior managers will share their views in a group discussion: Kim Jun Geun, NPS senior portfolio manager of the private equity and venture capital investment division; KIC s senior director of the alternative investment division s absolute returns group Yoon Sunghyun; and Korea Post s insurance arm Deputy Director of hedge fund investment Su Jin Lee..
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iConnections’ Global Alternatives Conference Announces Final Speaker Line-Up
January 14, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 14, 2021
iConnections, the industry-leading platform and community that seamlessly connects investment managers and allocators, today announced that
Tristan Harris, President and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology,
Francine Lacqua, Anchor and Editor-at-Large at
Bloomberg TV and
Anne McElvoy, Senior Editor at
The Economist have joined the roster for the firm’s Global Alternatives Conference taking place virtually from January 21 29, 2021.
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The speakers join a stellar line-up of 40 leading thinkers from the worlds of business, finance, science, media and academia, including
ASI creates platform to launch landmark passive hedge fund strategies
ABU DHABI, December 28, 2020 Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has created an innovative new platform that will allow investors to track a broad spectrum of investable hedge fund benchmarks for the first time. Drawing on the public market equity tracker model, where half of US equity assets are passively invested, the platform has the potential for significant scale as it looks to take a share of the $3 trillion-plus hedge fund market, as well as bring new investors into the asset class. The establishment of the platform will allow ASI to launch products which track HFR’s flagship investable index the ‘HFRI 500’; a fund weighted index comprised of 500 investable hedge funds across a broad range of strategies calculated and published by Hedge Fund Research Inc. (HFR), the established leader in hedge fund indexation. The flagship HFRI 500 index tracking strategy is targeting an initial f
After too many years of drag-butt performance, they’ve taken advantage of a volatile 2020.
Hedge funds are finally edging past the S&P 500, a welcome plus for an asset class that has taken heat for underperforming in recent years amid the bull market.
The hedge fund composite had a very good November and ended up gaining 13.27% for 2020, versus 12.1% for the benchmark stock index, according to Preqin research.
What’s more, equity strategies, the class’ largest, did even better, up 14.49% for the year. Poorer showings in the past have sparked criticism because hedge funds’ relatively high fees didn’t deliver what a low-cost index fund did. Redemptions and fund closings have been rife, with even celebrated hedge operator John Paulson calling it quits in July.