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Tribeca announces new appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... financing solutions, as well as committing significant capital to successful global long/short businesses across asset classes," Aylward said. "Craig's experience over the years has been around generating consistent absolute return performance in a risk ...

SILC Group appoints new exec director

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... years' experience in banking, finance and superannuation, having worked across both traditional and alternative asset classes. The SILC Group managing director, Koby Jones said that the group was very pleased to be able to attract the calibre of industry ...

VanEck global infrastructure ETF goes live

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... global infrastructure which has traditionally provided investors with stable incomes and low correlation to other asset classes," Neiron said. "The FTSE Index is transparent and rules-based ensuring sector targets which provide diversification and reduces ...

IFM Investors hires chief economist

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... be instrumental in working with our investment teams globally and assisting with investment decisions across all asset classes."

Multi-asset products continue to grow

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... achieve. "With increased volatility and uncertainty, many managers have tried to diversify away from traditional asset classes and towards alternatives such as hedge funds, which were generally flat in 2015. So while multi-asset investing is certainly ...

Milliman calls out "failures of diversification"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... including products with allocations to hedge funds, infrastructure and listed real estate. While Milliman said these asset classes can represent "beneficial risk management," it also argued that these "diversifiers are still highly exposed to equity ...

Majority of family offices move to direct investing: FOX

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... offices with first or second-generation leadership (81%) compared with later generations (46%). The most popular asset classes in this regard were direct real estate and direct private equity. "Investing directly in real estate properties or operating ...

BlackRock's Fink issues stark warning for global economy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... said: "Investors are being forced to trade liquidity for yield by taking on more risk and investing in less liquid asset classes - a potentially dangerous combination for retirement savers." "Not nearly enough attention has been paid to the toll these ...

Van Eck launching infrastructure and dividend ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... demand for global as investors continue to be attracted to its stable income and low correlation to traditional asset classes. "We are excited to be the first to give Australian investors the opportunity to access a portfolio of global infrastructure ...

Super funds presented in-housing framework

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... and there becomes key client risk." To mitigate risk Warren said super funds would internally manage a number of asset classes, therefore if one performed badly it would not affect overall performance deeply. He said funds would also sign on culturally ...