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New CIO for First State Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
First State Super has named its new chief investment officer. Current acting chief investment officer Damian Graham has taken on the position permanently after stepping in to the role in a caretaker capacity in August. Graham previously led investments ...

Hyperion opens fund to retail market

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
High-conviction equities manager Hyperion Asset Management has opened the Hyperion Global Growth Companies Fund to direct applications from retail investors. The Global Growth Fund aims to invest in the highest quality global companies in developed ...

Perpetual awards global equity mandates

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... a value style and a fundamental bottom-up approach; Carnegie manages a high conviction, active global growth equity portfolio. "We are delighted to partner with Perpetual and provide them with best of breed product solutions in the global growth and ...

Watermark launches global market neutral LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... first global market neutral LIC. The Watermark Global Leaders Fund uses long and short positions in a global equity portfolio to deliver a fully market neutral strategy, and aims to deliver 10% over all market cycles. Watermark is aiming to raise $110 ...

EM equities beating global indices: VanEck

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... third quarter after several years of underperformance, according to VanEck research. VanEck emerging markets equity portfolio manager David Semple explained that while EM has "generally underperformed" over the past five years, "the tide is turning." ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... some very active ways." As evidence, Briand noted that, foremost, "few institutional investors hold the global equity portfolio in its entirety; most still carry a heavy home bias." On top of that, "passive money" is generally allocated to "vehicles ...

MSCI launches new insto global equity risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
MSCI has launched a new model to analyse systematic risk in global equity portfolios for institutional investors. The Barra Global Total Market Trading Equity Model, based on MSCI's Systematic Equity Strategies adds new risk factors including news sentiment ...

Global equity managers not currency selectors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
When superannuation funds structure a global equity investment mandate it is beneficial to manage the currency component externally, new research finds. A study released by the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) implies super funds ...

Hostplus tripling venture capital exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... fund's $1.3 billion private equity investment portfolio. In the 12 months to December 2015, Hostplus' private equity portfolio returned 21.3% and it has averaged an 8.7% per annum return over 10 years. Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia told ...

AB to acquire hedge fund manager

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
AllianceBernstein has entered into an agreement to acquire an alternatives investment manager. Ramius Alternative Solutions, which is jointly owned by Ramius LLC and principals Stuart Davies and Vikas Kapoor, manages over US$3 billion and operates multi- ...