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In the week ending 10 June, 2016, a study by BNY Mellon has found that institutional investors are planning to boost their allocations to alternative strategies to seek stronger returns.  39% of the respondents said they would increase their allocations to alternative investment types, while just 6% say they will moderately decrease it. Distressed strategies are viewed as the most attractive when it comes to hedge fund allocations, with 68% of investors currently having exposure to them and 58% ranking them as one of the three most attractive strategies for the coming 12 months. A survey by J.P. Morgan also showed that 75% of institutional investors are boosting their allocations to real assets.

David Rubenstein said pension funds have earned nearly 20% annual returns from their billions of investments in Carlyle’s funds over the past three decades.

Other reports said hedge funds could provide an important solution for mounting pension funding deficits. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts state pension fund has hired Contrarian Capital and IPM Informed Portfolio Management; San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System green-lit a $1bn deal with Blackstone Group‘s hedge fund business; a group has expressed fear that the future of North Carolina’s pension fund could be at risk; and South Korea’s public pension fund will keep increasing alternative investments and reduce local equities in the long term.

Volvo Car Group Investment has applied to launch a hedge fund and manage investment funds for outside investors; and Auriga Securities has launched a UCITS version of its global mixed asset fund run by Luis Bononato.

Pine River Capital Management will shut down......................

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