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Aussie pension pros most confident about valuations

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... expectancy is undermining pension funds' confidence in their liability valuations, while growing allocations to alternative assets are making it harder to value investment portfolios. From 30 Australian respondents, not one rated their valuation confidence ...

MTAA Super bolsters investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... framework; risk and compliance monitoring of the investment portfolio; and assisting in the management of unlisted alternative assets. MTAA also appointed an investment officer in March with Kevin Pluess joining the team. Pluess was most recently an ...

Fund managers fleeing UK post-Brexit: Preqin

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... as a response to the Brexit referendum, according to Preqin research. The research, based on a survey of 140 alternative assets firms and 50 institutional investors, showed that the proportion is closer to half for institutional investors surveyed; less ...

Altius to be acquired by Canadian firm

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... Group and represent Pavilion's global advisory platform specialising in alternative asset classes with total alternative assets under advisement of over US$60 billion ($81 billion), out of a total US$570 billion ($769 billion). Pavilion Alternatives ...

Alternatives delivering for infra and PE

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... annual conference in Melbourne this week, and produced at a time when super funds have doubled their exposure to alternative assets between 2007 and 2016. Frontier Advisors senior consultant Greg Barr said super funds have been looking for portfolio ...

Good asset owners benchmarked at $30bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... equities, bonds and real assets, but also a diversification into a much broader set of non-macro sensitive alternative assets. "Over the past 30 years growth has been fuelled by credit expansion but now it's going to come from equity. That will come ...

SILC Group appoints new exec director

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... Russo. "His deep knowledge, expertise and experience across the funds management sector, and specifically in alternative assets will not only support but will also grow our pipeline of products we are bring to the market for our wholesale clients."

Alternative mandates eclipse equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
For the first time since 2009, alternative assets have eclipsed equities for the largest asset class share among institutional investment mandates in Australia. That pivotal moment occurred during the final quarter of 2015, and it reflects a trend seen ...

Alternatives now used by 80% of instos

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
Nearly eight out of 10 global institutional investors now invest in alternative assets, according to research from Preqin. The latest 'Preqin Investor Outlook: Alternative Assets, H1 2016' finds that investors are mixed in their attitudes to the alternative ...

Blue Sky lifts profits

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... since inception in July 2006. Managing director Mark Sowerby said the growth reflected almost 10 years in the alternative assets space, during which time alternatives had started to move into the mainstream. "Industry forecasts suggest alternative assets ...