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Super funds chase CPI linked assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... super funds are looking for assets with strong links to CPI inflation as they continue to ramp up their allocation to alternatives, a class that has swelled to US$952 billion among global pension funds. According to a global research study by Towers ...

Qantas signs up Russell for FX trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Qantas Superannuation has outsourced its foreign exchange trades for active global equities and alternatives to Russell Implementation Services (RIS). Qantas Super, the trustee of the airlines $6 billion fund, has appointed RIS to provide agency foreign ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... over almost 40 years. This success has pushed pension funds around the world, and in Australia, to increase their alternatives exposure particularly into hedge funds. But Dr Ludovic Phalippou of the SaA-d Business School at the University of Oxford said ...

Zenith targets dealer groups with investment solutions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... infrastructure and Australian and global REITs, while Davis oversees international shares, cash, fixed interest and alternatives.

Alt assets fund deals with adviser concerns

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... all; it is actually kept ourselves in the fund. That can be run by a cash manager," said Chris Thompson, Advance's alternatives portfolio manager. The fund, aimed at wholesale investors, will be launched in August with the assistance of New York-based ...

Australian Unity possible merger

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... chief executive, Australian Unity Investments, told Financial Standard that the firm was serious about providing real alternatives in financial and investment services. "We have been focused on how investor habits have changed, the concept of investing ...

Zenith adds senior investment analyst

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... Additionally, investment analyst Angela Burmeister has moved internally within Zenith from research division to the alternatives research team headed by Daniel Liptak to add to the resources covering hedge funds and other alternative investment products. ...

Russell adds to industry funds consultancy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... developing retirement solutions for members. "Funds are demanding more diverse services such as better access to alternatives, after-tax investing solutions, more efficient implementation methods and more tailored index solutions," said Chris Corneil ...

Boutique incubator targets Asian wealth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... flow of money from those parts its best to be in Asia itself, which allocates a lot more money to those kinds of alternatives and concentrated high alpha products." Landman said that the offshore investment pool for such products was around $1.3 to $1.4 ...

Investors splash into water rights

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... for investors that want to diversify their portfolios with the alternative asset class. Picked to influence current alternatives and mainstream investment sectors, this emerging asset class is one with liquidity and a natural resources-type exposure ...