{"id":4294,"date":"2006-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ockham-pension-fund-to-invest-in-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/ockham-pension-fund-to-invest-in-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Ockham pension fund to invest in hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters.uk &#8211; Highway Insurance&#8217;s (HWY.L: <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/stocks\/Quote.aspx?symbol=HWY.L\">Quote<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/stocks\/CompanyProfile.aspx?symbol=HWY.L\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/stocks\/ResearchReports.aspx?symbol=HWY.L\">Research<\/a>) final-salary pensionscheme has decided to invest in alternative assets including private-equity and hedge funds, the company said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>  The Ockham Pension Scheme has assets of 80 million pounds. Its trustees have been looking at the complex area of alternative assets for about a year now.<\/p>\n<p>  Sixty percent of the scheme&#8217;s asset are to be invested in a Diversified Growth Fund, which will target returns 4 percent above those can be achieved on UK government bonds.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;This portfolio will invest in a range of growth assets, including private equity, hedge funds, high yield and emerging market debt alongside equities and property,&#8221; the company said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>  The company declined to give a breakdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/5-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DbusinessNews%26storyID%3D2006-04-19T143328Z_01_L19731601_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FINANCIAL-FUND-PENSIONS-OCKHAM.xml%26archived%3DFalse&amp;cid=1105904592&amp;ei=1jRHRIP2IYWKpAKhuKynBQ\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters.uk &#8211; Highway Insurance&#8217;s (HWY.L: Quote, Profile, Research) final-salary pensionscheme has decided to invest in alternative assets including private-equity and hedge funds, the company said on Wednesday. The Ockham Pension Scheme has assets of 80 million pounds. Its trustees have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}