European pensions to hedge funds: Wherefore art thou Romeo?
| Apr 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Institutional Investing, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff |
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For hedge funds, getting an allocation from a pension fund has long been the golden carrot. Big, thoroughly diligent and generally “sticky” when it comes to putting their capital to work and keeping it there, they have long been the Juliet to hedge funds’ Romeo.
It seemed that might not be the case in the aftermath of the credit crisis and global downturn, particularly as pensions and other institutional investors got smacked with negative returns and surprise gates.
But if Mercer’s latest pension fund investment survey (click here for a brief overview and to download a free excerpt) is any indication, the bloom may still be on the rose – at least among European pensions. More…
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