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Platforms bounce back 7.9 pc

... down from its 2007 peak. Driving the platform recovery is their higher weighting to equities and low exposure to unlisted assets, enabling them to simultaneously take best advantage of this year's stock market rally and sidestep the downward valuation ...

MAP Super seeks alternatives, hires Bennelong

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... traditional equities and listed property. MAP is looking to include infrastructure, private equity, hedge funds and unlisted assets such as property into its portfolio. The fund, which had around $200 million in funds under management at the end of June ...

Liquidity problem in unlisted assets overstated: RWA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Liquidity is not a problem for most funds with high weightings to unlisted assets because they are protected by strong positive cashflows and most members are in the diversified default option. The criticism against unlisted valuation practices by retail ...

Super funds stage comeback

... reports that economists are now lowering their unemployment forecasts only adds weight to these trend," he said. If unlisted assets are devalued further, retail super funds, which usually have higher share weightings could soon climb the league tables ...

Shift to altern assets fuel valuation concerns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Rising levels of alternative assets has exacerbated concerns over valuation policies for unlisted assets, according to APRA's latest Insight report. The biggest problem for the regulator is fund reporting cycles being much more frequent than asset valuation ...

Unlisted valuations on track: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
Super funds with unlisted assets can breathe easier knowing that more than 93 per cent of their alternative investment managers are strictly following their valuation policies, according to a survey by Frontier Investment Consulting. Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

AMP Cap continues senior hiring spree

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
AMP Capital Investors hired Warwick Mancini as head of investment specialists for unlisted assets and Brigette Leckie as senior investment specialist for Asia Pacific equities. Mancini joins AMP Capital Investors from Macquarie Group where he worked ...

APRA declares hand on unlisted asset valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
APRA has unveiled how unlisted assets should be valued in light of the current markets and broke away from tradition when it outlined what it considers as 'bad practice'. "Valuations of 'appraisal based' assets can have a critical impact on members ...

Low volatility not always low risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... this year won the InvestHedge ten year performance award. In parallel to the Australian debate on valuations for unlisted assets, AURUM said liquidity can be an illusion unless the liquidity of the fund is matched by liquidity of the underlying assets. ...

GESB seeks more unlisted exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... Employees Superannuation Fund (GESB) is considering increasing its current asset allocation of 5 per cent into unlisted assets after it was hard hit by the downfall of equities markets. GESB, which had $8.4 billion in assets under management at September ...