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PAS mandate review completed

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... portfolio including Vanguard Investment Australia for Australian shares, BlackRock Investment Management for its liquid alternatives and Schroder Investment Management for bonds. The fund has also invested in research to understand member preferences ...

Inflation fears raise appeal of alternative assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Alternatives are predicted to enjoy a surge of inflows over the next three years as institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds move to protect themselves against inflation. Inflation and its potential effect on institutional investing is gaining ...

SMSFs pour more into property

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... looking to allocate more into real estate as the sector continues on its recovery path. Investors are looking again to alternatives such as property and infrastructure to bring in long-term returns as the sectors' performances improve. Some very valuable ...

Future Fund returns 7.5pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... per cent return in the year to December, with the performance attributed to more investments towards equities and alternatives, and continuing reduction in its debt and cash holdings. According to the fund's December quarterly update, returns for the ...

Fees for alternatives under pressure

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... funds, infrastructure and real estate investments have all declined this year - and the timing couldn't be worse for alternatives as many funds struggle to assert their diversification credentials, post-GFC. According to a Mercer survey of more than ...

Statewide cuts staff, boost sales

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... and fixed income. It will also continue to reduce its overall alternative investments exposure, said O'Flaherty. "[Alternatives exposure] is about 33 to 34 per cent at the moment, we're trying to get it down to about 30 [per cent]," he said. Statewide ...

Super up 8 pct to 1.28 tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... fees. Rainmaker can also reveal that 48 of not-for-profit super fund assets are held in equities, 16 per cent in alternatives, 14 per cent in fixed interest, 11 per cent in cash and 9 per cent in property. Retail funds however have 59 per cent in equities ...

UCSuper makes debut in infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Investment Management. Neil Kent, general manager of UCSuper, said the infrastructure holdings will be added to the fund's alternatives portfolio, across four of the funds' member investment choice options. The new allocation to members' investment choices ...

More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... going to be one more big energy spike, probably about 5 years from now, and after that technology will take over, and alternatives will drive down (energy costs)." He said that while equities "don't look cheap... good quality stocks might be a better ...

NAB Super restructures alternatives portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... Super joins the growing number of funds that are cutting their Australian equities exposure and finetuning their alternatives assets portfolios. The corporate fund made tactical changes to its asset allocation in conjunction with its asset consultant ...