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Christine Williamson

Christine Williamson is a senior reporter at sister publication Pensions & Investments with a focus on money management and hedge funds. She tweets at: @Williamson_PI

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Hedge funds could post worst year since 2011

But performance of the alternative asset class still ahead of stocks.

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Aberdeen’s head of the Americas resigns

Exec leaving for 'family reasons' but will continue to advise the money manager.

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Institutions keen on activist hedges

Activist hedge funds have pulled in at least $2 billion in new assets from institutional investors over the past two years, with a marked acceleration in pace in the second half of 2011 and so far in 2012.

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Hedge funds are using ETFs despite stigma

Hedge fund managers are the third-biggest institutional users of exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products, but they are reluctant to talk about it.

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Institutional investors set to dump poor hedge fund performers

Institutional investors will be sharpening their scalpels this year, cutting managers that failed to provide what they promised: absolute returns.

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Bridgewater, AQR take aim at DC assets

Alternative investment managers Bridgewater Associates and AQR Capital Management are turning their attention to the defined contribution plan market with tweaks to their strategies.

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Emerging hedge fund performance questioned

Emerging-hedge-fund managers are getting more attention from institutional investors because they tend to produce better returns than larger, more established funds, but industry insiders disagree about the extent of the outperformance.

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Institutional investors question fixed-income allocation

The poor outlook for fixed-income returns is pushing some institutional investors to consider more-active approaches to managing their fixed-income portfolios

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Institutional investors going long/short on commodities

Commodities-focused hedge funds are proving irresistible to institutional investors — especially public-pension plans — hungry for an inflation…

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Some $100 billion locked up in ‘sliver’ of hedge funds

Despite assurances to the contrary, a segment of hedge funds still has up to $100 billion locked up and won't allow redemptions