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1. 1. Equity for Africa

   www.equityforafrica.org/michie - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/15/2007   Last Visited: 11/15/2007

   Michiel Timmerman Equity for Africa
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   Michiel Timmerman
   
   Michiel Timmerman is the Chief Investment Officer of Royal Bank of Scotland Asset Management, responsible for $56 bn of assets. Before joining RBSAM in June 2004, he was Chief Operationg Officer of a European equity fund management business in London. Previously he was the Head of Portfolio Management in the Alternative Investments group at Coutts, the UK's leading private bank. Before joining Coutts, Michiel spent 7 years as a management consultant in the financial services sector. He has a D. Phil. from Oxford University.

2. 2. www.coutts.com

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   Published on: 3/13/2007   Last Visited: 3/13/2007

   Introduction to Hedge Funds - Michiel Timmerman
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   Michiel Timmerman, Co-head, Investments, Royal Bank of Scotland Asset Management
   
   Hedge funds have attracted some negative interest in the financial press because of the perception that they are high risk, which is not necessarily the case.
   
   Yet the reality is that hedge funds have proved highly successful investments that Michiel Timmerman, believes should be considered by charities keen to diversify their investment portfolios.
   
   ‘A hedge fund is an investment fund that is not measured against a benchmark, but is dedicated to absolute returns,' explains Timmerman. A traditional fund manager is focussed on outperforming an index and, to achieve that, usually adopts a long-only stance.
   
   ‘The manager will be unwilling to take much risk against the benchmark because it is difficult to recover any significant underperformance,' adds Timmerman. ‘For example, a large cap fund manager is unlikely to own many small cap companies because this makes the risk profile against his benchmark too high.'
   
   These restrictions do not apply to a hedge fund manager. ‘He makes his money by investing across a much wider range of opportunities,' explains Timmerman.

3. 3. ICMA Centre Reading UK | Business School | Finance Degrees | Executive Education | Consultancy

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   Published on: 7/26/2006   Last Visited: 7/26/2006

   Michiel Timmerman co-founded Coutts' fund of hedge fund business in 1998, and was Head of Portfolio Management, Alternative Investments. He left Coutts in 2002 to join Bradshaw Asset Management, a European equity hedge fund management business. He started life in the finance sector as a strategy consultant at National Westminster Bank in 1988. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University.