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Winton Capital wins Future Fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... alternative assets in the March quarter, it said in its portfolio update, or 16.3 per cent, excluding Telstra. The private equity mandate went to US-based venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners which invests heavily in India. Future Fund had ...

Sunsuper appoints ESG specialist

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... the carbon exposure of individual infrastructure assets and conduct a climate change risk assessment of its main private equity assets.

Future Fund dabbles in India

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... Fund said that it had allocated $2.49 billion, or 3.4 per cent of the fund's value (excluding Telstra shares) to private equity investments. In the same quarter it allocated $8.48 billion or 11.6 per cent to Australian equities, $19.9 billion or 27.3 ...

BNY Mellon upgrades asset servicing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... positions in markets that have closed prior to the valuation point of the fund. Last month, the group launched a private equity capability that allow their institutional clients with a Burgiss data subscription to access data on their public and private ...

AustralianSuper assets under 'climate change' test

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... understanding the impact of climate change on their future portfolio returns. First up are the property, infrastructure and private equity assets in various ways. One new measure will be to request details from its domestic property managers on their ...

KPMG investment consulting no direct threat

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... expertise, resources and time. O'Leary, a former head of Colonial First State's infrastructure, real estate and private equity businesses, saw a need for something other than traditional fund mangers and asset consultants to assist investors. Typically ...

Future Fund climbs sovereign league tables

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... 6.75 of the telecommunications firm, the report said. The fund says its holding is worth A$2.6 billion. In its private equity allocation, the Future Fund followed a trend among global firms to greater interest in distressed and turnaround strategies. ...

Inflation fears raise appeal of alternative assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... inflation. Dr Peter Laib, managing director, Diamond Asset Advisors, and former executive committee member of global private equity investment management company, Adveq, believes that the share of alternatives will be massively larger in a couple of ...

Mystery surrounds sovereign fund billions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... 2011 more sovereign wealth funds invested in all asset classes tabled including public equities, debt instruments, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds, it was reported. Public equities was the most widely used class, with 85 per ...

PE-Backed IPO exits top $10bn in 2011 YTD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Global private equity IPO exits hit $39 billion last year and is already $10 billion year to date 2011. Preqin, a research firm that specialises in the alternative investments sector, has just released a survey showing that there were 145 IPO exits ...