India is also a favorite for Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets equity at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
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"I don't think you can blindly say a particular strategy will always do well, " says Wasif Latif, vice president of equity investments at USAA Investment Management Co.
Firpta had led a number of investors to change their strategies to investing in real-estate debt in the U.S. rather than equity, said Ben Sanderson of Hermes Real Estate Investment Management Ltd.
Two CICC alumni, Wu Shangzhi and Fang Fenglei , run what are described as the most important private-equity firms in China CDH Investments and Hopu Investment Management, respectively.
Publicly traded alternative investment and capital management firm (formerly a private equity shop) Blackstone Group (BX) has been leading the charge.
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Acconci Trust claims in its complaint that in 2004 it purchased on the secondary market a 31.24% stake in Lincolnshire Equity Fund, a leveraged buyout investment fund set up by Lincolnshire Management in or around 1994.
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The firm is a leader in investment banking, asset management, private banking, private equity, custody and transaction services and retail and middle market financial services.
"Speaking in terms of JGB investments, investors who need yield will ultimately extend the maturity of JGBs they are buying, and those who don't want to do that or can't do that will buy other things like foreign bonds or credit, and in some cases equity, " said Kenji Sakaguchi, chief investment officer at Prudential Investment Management Japan Co.
The plan: offer investment products across 3 segments including realty, traditional asset management and private equity.
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Another star is private equity veteran Renuka Ramnath, founder, managing director and CEO of Mumbai investment advisory firm Multiples Alternate Asset Management.
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But according to the Investment Management Association, the British fund-management industry's trade body, an equity unit trust has to have 80% in equities.
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