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Sunsuper awards $580m mandate to US endowment fund

... Management Company. The group currently has only one product, an endowment fund that will invest across listed equities, private equity, hedge funds and listed and direct property investments. "Sunsuper has been actively exploring ways to create long ...

Private equity, hedge funds at risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
Up to half all hedge funds, at least one major bank and a "substantial percentage" of private equity firms in business today worldwide will cease to exist within five years, according to predictions made by GMO chairman, Jeremy Grantham. In his quarterly ...

Alternatives rewrite custody

... alternative investments unit five months ago designed to look into three types of alternative asset classes: hedge funds, private equity and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. "As our [superannuation] clients look to deliver solutions to their clients ...

From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
... buy-outs. The postponement of the $12 billion debt offering related to the Chrysler sale was just one casualty. Private equity group Kolberg Kravis and Roberts is rumoured to be postponing its IPO plans and has failed raise enough to fund a buy-out for ...

PE driving improved corporate governance: CHAMP

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
The recent massive growth in private equity buyouts is also driving improvements in public corporation governance, according to David F. Jones, managing director of CHAMP Private Equity. Speaking at the 2007 WestLB Mellon Asset Management Round Table ...

Zenith recommends Barwon/Select PE fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
Ratings agency Zenith has awarded a "Recommended" rating to Barwon Investment Partners' Select Private Equity Portfolio, offered through their partnership with Select Asset Management. Launched late last year, the multi-manager portfolio provides access ...

US energy powers VFMC

... looked to the US energy and electric power sector for returns and is one of the investors in a power fund run by private equity fund manager Energy Investors. VFMC has bought into the United States Power Fund III, which closed oversubscribed at $1.56 ...

ING PEAL rings in renewed PEP deal

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007
ING Private Equity Access Limited (ING PEAL) has announced a continuation of its relationship with Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) with a new $10 million commitment to Pacific Equity Partners Fund IV. Through the fund, PEP will continue its focus on large ...

Wyllie launches new 'niche within a niche' company

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
... advisor and director Craig Coleman, leading company director Tony Howarth and Viburnum Investment director and private equity investment specialist Marshall Allen. The new sub-division will offer niche fund products to institutional and private investors. ...

SELECT absolute return fund gets rating tick from Zenith

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
Select Asset Management's (SELECT) absolute return focused Select Private Equity Portfolio (SPEP) fund has been rated recommended by Zenith Investment Partners. SELECT has partnered with private equity specialist Barwon Investment Partners to help manage ...