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Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... of which 108 were asset managers. Others came from banks, hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and private equity firms.

Towers Watson builds investment team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... will join the portfolio construction group at Towers Watson Investments, where he will look after infrastructure, private equity and unlisted property research. His previous role was investment analyst at Sovereign Investment Research. Chris Schodde ...

Diamond Asset Advisors arrive in Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... Heinz-Joerg Jansen, former managing director of Antwerp Diamond Bank group, Peter Laib, former head of Adveq, a global private equity outfit and Raymond Simpson, chief operating officer of Harry Winston Inc. According to the firm, future demand for diamonds ...

NAB boosts private equity admin

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
National Australia Bank's Asset Servicing division has signed an agreement with BNY Mellon to introduce private equity administration and middle office services for superannuation and fund managers. Leigh Watson, executive general manager in Asset Servicing ...

Future Fund returns 7.5pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... securities investments also fell from making up 25.8 per cent of the fund to 18.8 per cent. By contrast, allocations to private equity, property and infrastracture were significantly up, although even in aggregate, all three asset classes still make ...

CalPERS returns 12.5pc in 2010

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... CalPERS, they came in below the 15 per cent return achieved by the benchmark S&P500 Index over the same period. Private equity was the biggest gainer among the asset classes for the fund in 2010, with a 21.5 per cent overall return. Global equity investments ...

Veteran asset consultant to bridge gap: AXA IM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... property fund managers this year ahead of a planned offering in the sector. At present, AXA IM already has funds in private equity, global real estate and infrastructure, among others. While product development is not in his brief, Gardener said that ...

Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... soap opera, with NAB, IOOF and AMP all drawn into the web. KKR's bid for Perpetual raised many eyebrows, marking private equity's first foray into the Australian financial services landscape (in an acquisitive capacity), while the Singapore Exchange's ...

Fees for alternatives under pressure

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
Fees for private equity, hedge 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 ...

Pay performance fees only, says $220b fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... allocate 4 per cent of its assets to "liquidity", 63 per cent to "growth" investments (which includes public and private equity), 16 per cent to "income" investments (mainly fixed income), 13 per cent to "real estate" (which includes infrastructure) ...