Special Focus: Pension Fund Mandates - A tailor-made solution to meeting long-term liabilities. From: Pensions Week | Date: March 14, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 FT Business. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The growth in alternative mandates has been such that they threaten to become the norm in a few years. The increased awareness that pension funds need to grant mandates which can match, or even exceed, long-term liabilities to reduce deficits has led to a steady movement away from balanced mandates dominated by equities and bonds.

Some pension funds have had sizeable exposures to alternative assets through property and private equity for many years, while hedge fund mand...

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