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Yellow Brick Road launches super fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... entirely of cash and fixed income investments. Go For Growth is the most aggressive with 90% in shares, property and alternatives and 50/50 is a balance of the two. It also has no establishment, contribution or switching fees. Bouris says he wants to ...

Downswing in bond yields clear path for Absolute Return Fixed Income

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... instead." Where institutions had in the past tended to categorise fixed income absolute return funds for inclusion in the alternatives silo of their asset allocation, Djounov said the narrowing of opportunies in the long-only market meant that many were ...

Platforms hold sway over fund access

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... platforms and we are seeing increasing flow from that area as planners gravitate to platforms for efficiency and alternatives to term deposits," he continued. Matthews added: "Direct property is a fundamentally good investment for clients. It provides ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... The strategy is purely top-down and employs no stock selection filters. It is free to invest in equities, bonds, alternatives and currencies from a universe of more than 100 different markets. Super funds can access to Singer's investment philosophy ...

Liquidity concerns push CSC to change target allocation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... such as private and public property, infrastructure and other real assets, 9% in sovereign bond assets and 14% in alternatives strategies.

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... large scale effect was observed was in asset allocation as funds with more than $1 billion in assets averaged 61% in alternatives compared only about 20% for funds with $25-100 million and 11% for funds with less than $25 million. Smaller funds were ...

IM focus at slimmed down Russell

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... senior executives including including chief executive Chris Corneil, head of asset consulting Jerome Lander, head of alternatives Nicole Connolly and institutional managing director Michael Clarke. Schoenheimer said the GFC has forced Russell to focus ...

Plans to close large UK defined benefit angers members

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... and the representative for Axa staff, is yet to rule out industrial action and said it had put forward a range of alternatives to the pension provider, including changes to members' contributions or accrual rates, which had been rejected by Axa. The ...

Instos turning to indexing strats for alternatives

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
Global institutional investors are increasingly turning to indices for their alternatives exposure, according to a new report by Northern Trust. The US-based investment manager's survey of 51 institutional investors from around the world found that ...

Future Fund appoints head of debt and alternatives

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The Future Fund has promoted David George to the role of head of debt and alternatives following the resignation of Mitchell Stack in November 2012. George was previously a director in the Future Fund debt and alternatives team and has been with the ...