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Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
North American and Asian investors dragged down global investor confidence in September, according to State Street's Investor Confidence Index (ICI). The Global ICI fell from August's revised reading of 91 to 86.9. North American investor confidence ...

Two global infra hires: AMP Capital

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... AMRO Bank in Singapore, London and Amsterdam. Jake Houseman has also been appointed senior vice president in the North American infrastructure team, based in New York. Houseman will play a senior role in AMP Capital's origination and asset management ...

North American Endowments bullish on PE

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... survey of investment attitudes to private equity from 4,000 investors from 473 endowments. The vast majority of North American based endowments remain committed to private equity investment, with 94% intending to increase or maintain their exposure to ...

Asian private equity grows rapidly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... returns out of all vintages analyzed, with a median IRR of 31.1% and a median multiple of 2.29-times, outperforming North American and European funds of this vintage". Other vintages have been dramatically and negatively impacted by the 2008 downturn ...

SWFs jump 16% to $4.62tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... East and North Africa (MENA), highlighting how the petro dollar economies are increasingly integrated into the North American economies. "Sovereign wealth funds have a continued interest in private equity and many believe the asset class offers favourable ...

BNP Paribas new Aust CEO

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... institutional business development, David Grybas, is the new chief executive, replacing Robert Harrison who will move to a North American role. Harrison, the current BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) Australia chief executive, has been appointed ...

Lowenhaupt Global Advisors names executive director

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... Lowenhaupt Global Advisors Australia. "Juliet has a long track record of success in applying the best practices of North American family offices to families of significant wealth in Australia." LGAA works closely with Lowenhaupt Global Advisors in the ...

Smart beta gains popularity with instos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... reportedly considering moving more of their traditional core investments to smart beta strategies. Over 30% of the 82 North American and European pension funds investors surveyed by bfinance expect to have more than 10% invested in such strategies by ...

Betashares launches three new ETFs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... will also launch a Copper Index ETF and a Commondities Basket, which will track the performance of the S&P GSCI North American Copper Index and S&P Light Energy Index with exposure to 24 commodities respectively. "The new commodity ETFs will widen the ...

Global ETPs hits $1.58 trillion

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... poured more funds into this investment vehicle, particularly equity ETPs and funds and products offering exposure to North American equities which received US$21.3 billion in October. BlackRock's Industry Highlights report found that the global assets ...