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IOOF gets direct

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
IOOF will offer direct share investment through its platforms as of next year, according to head of strategy and product, Nick Everingham. He said the move came in response to adviser demand, and IOOF would be putting out a tender in coming weeks to ...

Harvard Endowment Fund chief quits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
... Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive of Harvard Management Company (HMC) and manager of the $41.5 billion Harvard Endowment Fund, has announced his resignation, effective at the end of 2007. He will return to California-based Pacific Investment Management ...

Government in fund frenzy

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
... yesterday with announcement of a new Health and Medical Infrastructure Fund, adding to the new Higher Education Endowment Fund and the Future Fund. Seeded with an initial $2.5 billion, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said that figure would grow after ...

Sunsuper awards $580m mandate to US endowment fund

... president and chief executive of the Stanford Management Company. The group currently has only one product, an endowment fund that will invest across listed equities, private equity, hedge funds and listed and direct property investments. "Sunsuper has ...

QIC awards $570m mandate to US endowment fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
QIC has awarded a US$500 million mandate to Makena Capital, a US-based endowment and foundation (E&F) fund. Brad Holzberger, QIC strategy general manager, said the mandate was awarded for strategic reasons. "Investing in E&F funds is more about investing ...

'Tis the season to be philanthropic

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
... philanthropy workshop appear in the space of 48 hours. Goldman Sachs JBWere yesterday launched their Charitable Endowment Fund (CEF), allowing investors to donate returns on invested capital in the form of grants to charitable organisations. The fund ...

Hedge and non-hedge collide

... it "Yale endowment envy", after the growing number of fund managers hoping to clone the high returns of the Yale Endowment Fund, Rogers said the industry has become more open to alternative investments making up a huge proportion of their portfolio. ...

Super choice Budget boost

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... hardly likely to hit the Budget too hard. But the major industry development is the establishment of the Education Endowment Fund (EEF) which puts $5 billion into the investment markets through the creation of a dedicated investment fund that reserves ...

Macquarie makes it easy to invest in agriculture

... industry in the United States where institutional involvement remains strong in agri-investing. He highlights the Yale Endowment fund as an example where the institutional fund has a targeted 20 per cent allocation to "real assets" including timberland. ...

Dodd resigns from Macquarie Goodman Funds Management

... technology and service provider. He is also the deputy chairman of EWT and director and Trustee of Giant Steps Endowment Fund. Allway was previously the managing director and an executive board member of SBC Warburg in Sydney (now UBS Warburg) and held ...