ITALY - Direct investment in funds such as hedge funds would help Italian pension funds diversify and generate alpha within portfolios which currently contain no uncorrelated assets, claimed Andrea Canavesio, partner at Mangusta Risk.
Although changes are in the pipeline, the law as it stands does not allow pension funds to invest directly. Instead, they award mandates to asset managers and open a segregated account in a bank fo...
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