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New index offers chance to invest like a billionaire

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
The launch of a new index opens the door for anybody to invest like the world's most successful wealth builders - billionaires. The New York Stock Exchange and iBillionaire have launched the iBillionaire Index, which tracks the blue-chip stock holdings ...

US Hedge Fund Association opens in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and on the West Coast and has expanded internationally with chapters in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Cayman Islands. The HFA offers discounted access to global conferences, opportunities to contribute to relevant ...

IFM mulls Asia office

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... investment office in Asia. "You can get better risk adjusted returns in the US, Europe and Australia and frankly, Latin America, than you can in Asia," he said. "We will not be dealing with retail or high net worth clients; we will only be dealing with ...

IFM look to Latin America in latest appointment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... multinational Ferrovial, S.A. His appointment is intended to enhance IFM's strategic industry relationships in Spain and Latin America. "We are extremely pleased to welcome Nicolas, who has worked with some of the biggest infrastructure initiatives around ...

Local funds ignore US $10.6tr pension market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... (IFM), shared the fund's experience ins successfully breaking into the overseas pension markets in the US, Europe and Latin America at the annual Financial Standard Sales & Marketing Forum at Sydney's Shangri-La Hotel. He said while financial services ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Wall Street might is in the midst of jubilation, celebrating the Dow Jones Industrial Index's foray into a new all-time record high last night. Investors are counting their lucky stars - er, dollars - from the Dow's 117.7% surge from the bottom plumbed ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Regulation governing South American pension funds investing in private equity is becoming less strict, which make it more likely for limited partners in the region to become active investors in the coming years, investment research house Preqin said. ...

ORIX acquires 90% of Robeco from Rabobank

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... and has a strong European and US client base and a developing presence in emerging markets such as Asia, India and Latin America. The acquisition is part of a strategic alliance between Rabobank and ORIX where Rabobank will retain a 9.99 per cent share ...

Structural shifts reposition EMs as less risky investments

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... financial realities, but this is now starting to change," he said. "The basic strength of many countries in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe has rarely been so secularly robust as it is now, particularly in comparison to many developed countries." ...

Investors must push for PE transparency

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... in the asset class," she said. "Over the last five years there has been a lot of capital coming in from Asia and Latin America." Blackburn added: "One of the biggest stories coming out of private equity is that it has been such a slow sector over a period ...