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Bennelong hires Scully for compliance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... Rainmaker Group and also holds a number of directorships at ING Management, SAS Trustee Corporation and Vantage Private Equity Growth. Scully joins existing committee members Steve Gibbs, Jenny Diggle and Jarrod Brown.

CalPERS ploughs more into private equity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
The $231 billion CalPERS is putting more funds into private equity and global fixed income, but is raising its cash targets. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said it is increasing the target allocation for its Alternative ...

Invesco hires insto BDM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... institutional services including global REITs, small caps and alternative capabilities in the Senior Secured area and the Private Equity business of the firm's affiliate, Wilbur Ross. Newby will be based in the firm's Melbourne office and start her role ...

Unlisted valuations on track: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... every 12 months, but the asset remained unvalued for 15 months. Those surveyed included local and international private equity, hedge funds, property and infrastructure fund managers. Trafford-Walker said out of the five fund managers that failed to ...

The liquidity trade-off

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
Commodities, currencies, infrastructure and private equity will feature prominently in the next generation of super fund investment options and with that comes problems with balancing member choice with the right liquidity policy. Bruce Garratt, intermediary ...

AMP Cap continues senior hiring spree

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... in the private placement group in New York. In this role he worked on the syndication of all infrastructure and private equity transactions in the US. Before his time at Macquarie, Mancini worked as a senior associate in mergers and acquisitions at Shearman ...

US church pension ramps up Asia-Pac presence

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... fund with $9 billion in assets, opens an office in Hong Kong as it bulks up its portfolio in Asian real estate and private equity assets. According to oversees news reports, the fund has hired Mason - who used to head the now-closed Carlyle Group's Asian ...

India markets up 18pc on election

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Services scandal that rocked India's IT industry. Despite this hiccup, fund managers remain bullish on the economy. Private equity firm, Actis, said Indian finance companies represent some of the best emerging market private equity opportunities this ...

Russell revamps structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... and Russell Investment Services. These lines complement the firm's existing multi-manager division, the firm's private equity business, Pantheon and Indexes. Chris Corneil, managing director of Australia and New Zealand at Russell Investments, said the ...

VFMC suffers portfolio losses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... Both property and absolute return funds fared badly, posting 2 per cent and 3.9 per cent losses respectively. For private equity, VFMC lost 22 per cent for the year, although this was better than the benchmark's wider loss of 29.7 per cent. Cash was ...