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Lonsec increases global exposure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
... achieve a smoother return outcome over the long term." Across non-traditional risk profiles, which include alternative assets, global fixed interest and diversified income weights were increased across the defensive and conservative risk profiles, funded ...

Investors hard up for alternatives opportunities

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... private capital funds and 13,725 hedge funds open for investment. "Institutional investors remain committed to alternative assets and, in most cases, far more investors expect to grow their allocations to these asset classes than intend to reduce them," ...

Preqin research highlights surge in private capital sector

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... ($743 billion), natural resources ($535 billion) and infrastructure ($438 billion). The editor of Preqin's 2016 Alternative Assets Performance Monitor, Selina Sy, said that the private capital industry "has seen median net IRRs steadily climb in recent ...

BTFG alternatives head departs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... alternatives role in 2009 and has stayed there for seven years. As head of alternatives, Thompson oversaw the alternative assets within Advance Multi-Manager funds and Westpac's staff super scheme. Prior to BT, he was portfolio manager, implemented trusts ...

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 ...