Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
SafeGuard Cites SOX As Reason To Go Private
By Allison BellSafeGuard Health Enterprises Inc., Aliso Viejo, Calif., says its stockholders have approved a plan to take the company private.[@@]SafeGuard provides or administers dental and ...
June 21, 2004
India May Open to Foreign Hedge FundsMUMBAI, India (HedgeWorld.com)--The comment period has ended on an Indian government agency's proposal to allow foreign hedge funds to operate in India's securities markets under...
June 17, 2004
Alternatives Head for CalPERS Joins Oak HillRichard J. Hayes, who headed the US$20 billion alternative investment program at the California Public Employees' Retirement System, will leave the pension fund to join Oak Hill Partners as a managing partner.
June 09, 2004
Benefits Consortium Updates Web ServicesNU Online News Service, June 9, 2004, 1:52 p.m. EDT -- United Benefit Advisors, Indianapolis, has updated its Web services.[@@]The benefit advisory firm consortium ...
June 07, 2004
Options Volatility Fund Ready to Emerge from CocoonSAN FRANCISCO (HedgeWorld.com) - A California investment advisory firm will launch two new hedge funds with an options-volatility arbitrage strategy on June 1. The funds, Trilogy...
June 03, 2004
Actuarial Firms React To Antitrust InquiryNU Online News Service, June 3, 2004, 12:59 p.m. EDT -- Actuarial firms that sell employee benefits consulting services confirm that they have been ...
June 03, 2004
Actuarial Firms Confirm DOJ InquiryByActuarial firms offering employee benefits consulting services are confirming they have been contacted by the Department of Justice regarding anticompetitive activity.Hewitt Associates, Lincolnshire, Ill.; Milliman ...
June 01, 2004
Warburg Partners with Syz & Co. to Launch Hedge Fund Products in GermanyNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Warburg Invest, the asset management arm of Hamburg-based private bank M.M. Warburg & Co., and Swiss banking group Syz & Co. announced that...