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Australasia sees continued Canadian investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... executive Andre Bourbonnais said the manager suffered from public equity markets posting negative returns and its private equity portfolio underperforming. However, "most of our private market asset classes, and more particularly real estate, recorded ...

New $70bn MLC fund gives retail access to unlisted

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... in Melbourne, Carter said: "Consolidation gives us better access to best of breed investment options. "Our MLC Private Equity program, for example, is one of our best performers out there, and you can only get access to those assets with scale. On top ...

MTAA Super bolsters investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... cashflows and strong results from the majority of our alternative assets. Property, infrastructure and some smaller private equity holdings make up our unlisted assets and particularly in the infrastructure space we had strong results," Turner said. ...

Fees still an issue for alternatives: WTW

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... have the largest share of assets (34% and over $1.2 trillion), followed by hedge funds (21% and $755 billion), private equity fund managers (18% and $640 billion), private equity funds of funds (PEFoFs) (12% and $420 billion), funds of hedge funds (FoHF) ...

Telstra acquires Blue Sky fund assets

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
A Blue Sky Private Equity fund has sold its majority share of a business to Telstra. The business, Readify, was founded in 2002 and provides large Australian companies with custom software development, deployment and consulting services. Blue Sky provided ...

TH Real Estate partners for China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
TH Real Estate has partnered with a China-focused real estate private equity firm to launch a specialist China Outlet Mall Fund. TH Real Estate will be the fund manager for the new product, while Gaw Capital Partners will act as co-capital sponsor and ...

Altius to be acquired by Canadian firm

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... stronger alternative asset class advisory platform for Pavilion offering consulting services and solutions across private equity, private credit, real assets, and hedge funds." Adding to this Altius Associates co-chief executive Brad Young said: "We ...

CalPERS increasing emerging manager exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... billion in commitments by the year 2020. Commitments will range from US$50 to US$300 million in the real estate and private equity programs, and US$500 million to US$1 billion in the global equity program. This is in addition to the new commitments to ...

IFM Investors' timely ISGM partnership

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... of new industry sectors and we are looking forward to supporting the firm's growth," Lipchin said. Ironbridge's private equity fund is nearing its expiry date and with expansion firmly on the horizon for ISGM, it is a timely transaction for IFM Investors. ...

Alternatives delivering for infra and PE

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
Strip infrastructure and private equity out of superannuation funds' alternatives investments and the asset class struggles to deliver its current growth-like returns. This is one of the key pieces of analysis provided by Frontier Advisors at its annual ...