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Issue: 0822| Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Standardisation needed for hedge fund portfolio pricing

Quant managers exploring new models

FoFs eye opportunities in market downturns

Funds aren't convinced credit market has bottomed

Speculative Investors fueling boom in oil and commodity prices

Less than Enthusiastic Response to ‘Active’ ETFs

Alchemy: Distressed Debt overpriced

Fallibility of LIBOR calls for alternative benchmark

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Sovereign funds may have biggest impact on alternative assets

Sovereign wealth funds, which control up to $3.7 trillion in assets and have been making headlines as they buy assets in the West, will ultimately have the biggest impact on private equity and hedge funds, analysts at JPMorgan Chase said in a report on Thursday.

State-run investment funds currently own up to 7.5 percent of so-called alternative assets, or about $340 billion, and this stake could grow to as high as 17 percent by the end of 2012, said David Fernandez and Bernhard Eschweiler, analysts at the bank. "The main beneficiaries of the increased allocation by SWFs to alternatives are set to be private equity firms and hedge funds....(Read more..)

Source : Reuters

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