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AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... quarter. Meanwhile, Treasury Wine Estates' shares have jumped 20.5 cents, or 4.14 per cent, to $5.155 after US private equity firm KKR lifted its takeover offer for the Penfolds owner. Shares in oil and gas company Roc Oil have also soared after the ...

US manager appoints Breakwater to bring funds to Australia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... has been investing in private placements of Australian corporates for more than 15 years in addition to making private equity investments. Voya IM will now expand its services in Australia to include providing asset management services to institutional ...

PIMCO names new head of Asia Pacific

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... analyst in the investment banking division at Salomon Brothers and was also an associate at Jupiter Partners, a private equity firm. He has 17 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... investment managers, real estate managers have the largest share of assets (31% and over $1 trillion), followed by private equity fund managers (23% and $753bn), hedge funds (22% and $724bn), private equity funds of funds (PEFoFs) (10% and $322bn), funds ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... holdings. This includes disclosing the individual assets held by managed funds in which the super fund is invested. Private equity, infrastructure, unlisted property and hedge funds are vigorously opposing full public disclosure of their holdings, arguing ...

Alternatives managers must be more transparent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... Securities Services said institutional investors are increasing their allocation to alternative asset classes such as private equity, infrastructure, direct property and hedge funds. Alongside this, regulators are demanding a higher level of transparency ...

FUM closes in on $2trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... market is equivalent to 12.3%. Meanwhile the five fastest growing asset classes over the year were active extension, private equity, international equities, listed property and combined equities. The retail managed funds sector meanwhile grew just 3.4% ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... $2.85 at 1039 AEST on Monday. TV broadcaster Ten's shares were up 7.14 per cent to 26.25 cents amid reports that a private equity firm was considering a possible bid for the free-to-air network. Meanwhile, mining and banking shares were higher. Rio Tinto ...

Sovereign wealth funds ramp up alternatives exposure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... study. More than half (51%) of sovereign investors surveyed increased new exposure to real estate in 2013 and 29% to private equity, relative to the total portfolio. Sovereign investors expect to increase new allocations across all major alternative ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... lower at $6.83 after saying it had sold its real estate business DTZ for $1.2 billion to a consortium that includes private equity giant TPG. Among the major miners, BHP was up two cents at $35.31, Rio Tinto was down 27 cents at $57.33 and iron ore miner ...