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AXA IM targets Aus instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
AXA Group's Paris-based asset management business is providing its expertise across European property, private equity, structured finance and fund of hedge funds to Australian institutions. Craig Hurt, AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) director of Australian ...

Future Fund is $652m richer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... billion in fixed interest. A much lower amount of $768 million is in global property and a tiny $41 million in private equity. That means the next two years will likely spur a fierce beauty parade among the fund managers with more than $34 billion in ...

State Street's private equity hits $110bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
Rising institutional investor demand for private equity assets has resulted in State Street's private equity fund service's assets under administration to increase by 20 per cent to $110 billion since the division was formed last year. Jack Klinck ...

Templeton targets Vietnam

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... of a 49 percent stake in Vietcombank Fund Management (VCBF), an investment management firm currently focused on private equity investment in Vietnam. The remaining 51 percent of VCBF will continue to be owned by Vietcombank, the Bank for Foreign Trade ...

Diversified funds on the wane?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... alternative asset classes. "Some managers have adopted 'alternatives' such as hedge funds, alpha import strategies, private equity or global resources," said Fuller. "However, diversified managers are often limited by the choice of products available ...

Credit investors put bond issuers on notice

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... community is that Wesfarmers handled it badly. In other circumstances, such as when Channel Nine was sold and when private equity bought Investa, investors have been compensated. We were always the last to know anything that was going on at Wesfarmer ...

CalPERS unveils infrastructure plan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... CalPERS significantly beef up its current $461 million investment in infrastructure related investments held via private equity and real estate. "Infrastructure was the last component of a new asset class to be approved by the CalPERS Board, which earlier ...

Atom joins SII global group

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... US$50 billion in FUM centred on Africa, Europe and India with a stable of private client, alternative investment, private equity, agricultural and structured products businesses.

QIC favours endowment funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
... after." Ryder attributed stable returns, a good mix of alternative and absolute return investments and access to private equity partnerships as the main factors driving QIC's interest in endowment style funds. Last year, the fund awarded a similarly ...

Who plays the PE game, wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
US funds with a high private equity exposure have come out tops of the investment returns league, new figures show. A recent survey by Northern Trust indicate that players with heavy diversification strategies, particularly those who favoured private ...