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Future Fund hires more managers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... both appointed new mandates in the space. Venture capital fund of funds manager Montagu Newhall also received a private equity mandate - a sector which makes up over $1 billion in the overall portfolio. Overall, the Future Fund's return for the quarter ...

Select exits third party distribution

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... funds, although this might be less than what they have had in the past. Meanwhile the Select Futures Fund and Select Private Equity fund will be respectively rebranded under the Aspect Capital name and restructured to become a wholesale fund that will ...

Secondaries top PE list

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
Superannuation funds with cash to spare should consider picking investment gems from the private equity secondary market - which is clearly favouring the buyer in this current environment, said a global expert. Sally Collier, partner at Pantheon Ventures ...

BRIC to BIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... following concerns over its fragile economy and negative perceptions around governance and accountability. A survey of private equity firms conducted by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) has revealed China to still be highly favoured ...

Long and short funds merge to ride crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... Accenture Capital Markets said one of the fallouts of the market crisis is that in Europe, some hedge funds and private equity firms with long-only asset managers are merging their businesses either to stay afloat or to halve operational costs. "We've ...

CVC the preferred buyer of iShares

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
Barclays has singled out private equity firm CVC Capital Partners as its preferred bidder for the bank's prized exchange traded funds asset, iShares. According to a press statement by Barclays, the bank's preferred bidder is global private equity firm ...

China and India investment themes remain: Actis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
Chinese consumer good producers and Indian finance companies are some of the best emerging market private equity opportunities this year, according to specialist private equity firm. After raising almost more than A$4 billion in investments last year ...

St. John leaves UniSuper

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... UniSuper in May 2001 and assisted in diversifying member funds into alternative assets such as infrastructure and private equity; signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) and established a robust investment governance ...

Forensic tool for private equity

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Institutional investors that want more regular audits of the performance and management fees of their private equity funds can now avail of a new custodial services product that offers "forensic portfolio analytics" to clients. One of the largest custody ...

RARE quality found in infrastructure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... infrastructure manager, RARE Infrastructure, said you should look at infrastructure investments similarly to how you assess private equity. "What is important is to understand the lifecycle. There is a greenfield stage, a developing stage and a mature ...