Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 91 - 100 of 114 results for "Endowments"

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... by wealth managers (18%), insurance companies (9%), sovereign wealth funds (6%), banks (3%), funds of funds (3%) and endowments & foundations (3%). For the Top 100 managers, North America continues to be the largest destination for alternative capital ...

Perpetual encourages women writers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... 44-year career at the State Library of New South Wales," Thomas said. Perpetual manages over 550 charitable trusts and endowments, supporting medical, social, environmental, religious, cultural and educational causes. The Kibble Awards were established ...

Macquarie Group tops global alternative investment table

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... followed with 19%, then insurance companies (9%), sovereign wealth funds (6%), banks (5%), funds of funds (3%) and endowments & foundations (2%). Dougherty added: "The on-going economic uncertainty is likely to encourage investors away from simply holding ...

Fossil fuel companies to be rendered 'worthless': IMPAX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... divest their fossil fuel holdings on moral grounds. In the US students, faculty and elected officials are asking college endowments and municipal and state pension funds to limit or divest their holdings in fossil fuel companies in response to rising ...

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... 2012 National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and Commonfund Institute's Study of Endowments analysed the returns of more than 800 US endowment funds for 2011 and 2012, contrasting short and long term returns for funds ...

Frontier and Rogerscasey form research alliance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... directions. Segal Rogerscasey is a US-based investment consultant that serves corporations, non-profit organizations, endowments, foundations, state and local governments and joint boards of trustees in the US and Canada.

Former FTSE director moves to Vanguard

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... investment managers, asset consultants and corporate master trusts as well as other non-super entities such as insurers, endowments and charities. "Our institutional business partnerships form the bedrock of our operations here in Australia and a key ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... asset owners including over 800 pension funds, 80 insurance companies, 50 sovereign wealth funds and 50 foundations and endowments. The survey focused on five main categories - transparency, risk management, investment chain alignment, active ownership ...

Insto investors confront liquidity crunch

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... emerging market debt investments in the coming year. Rebecca Schechter, senior vice president and head of foundations and endowments at State Street says the two biggest challenges for asset owners right now are risk management and investment complexity. ...

North American Endowments bullish on PE

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... private equity by 50% over the past five years, according to a report from alternatives investments researcher Preqin. Endowments are the fourth largest institutional grouping in the US. Their allocations to private equity rose from 8.4% in 2007 to 13.2% ...