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Legalsuper seeks hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
The $1.2 billion legalsuper is looking to allocate mandates to hedge fund and credit investment managers. Andrew Proebstl, chief executive of the industry fund, said he was considering allocating between two to three per cent of the fund's current $1.2 ...

SWFs no longer at arm's length

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Sovereign wealth funds will gradually switch from being passive investors to active shareholders, predicts Andrew Rozanov, head of Sovereign Advisory at State Street Global Markets. This year Rozanov co-authored a comprehensive State Street report looking ...

EQT appoints two credit managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Equity Trustees has appointed TechInvest and Spectrum Asset Management to manage a credit investment strategy for the EQT TI Spectrum Credit Opportunities fund. The fund's strategy aims to take advantage of distressed credit securities locally. The ...

GESB looks to alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
The $7.5 billion Government Employees Superannuation Fund (GESB) is opening its doors for the first time to unlisted property and other direct asset classes. The WA-based GESB is currently looking closely at unlisted property as a new asset class, said ...

SWF Institute opens trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute has launched a confidential trading platform that allows some of the biggest institutional investors to trade assets. Wholly owned by the institute, the Imbourse platform provides capital introduction between buyers ...

CitySuper appoints $60m to Wellington

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... $20 million was dropped from BGI's absolute return fund. Rundle said the fund would undertake a yearly review of it investment strategy in August, when the fund would put all its investment asset classes under the microscope. CitySuper is the super fund ...

FTSE launches enviro tech indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... "One of the barriers to investment in this area in the past has been the difficulty this market and understanding it investment characteristics," said Julie Andrews, head of business development at FTSE Group - Australia. "This classification system ...

AMP holds LPT strategy, wins mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Global property securities fund manager, AMP Capital Redding Investors isn't changing its listed property strategies and continues to win mandates while the listed property sector continues to under-perform. Kim Redding, AMP Capital Redding Investors ...

Shenkman Capital now represented Down Under

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Riding the wave of interest in credit investment opportunities, US credit research specialist Shenkman Capital Management now has representation in Australia. "Credit is clearly a focus for many investors at this time, there is an expectation that credit ...

AXA term deposit up by 25 pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
AXA Australia saw a 25 per cent increase in term deposit investments after adding ANZ and Westpac Bank onto its Summit investment menu on 26 May this year. Investors can choose from 30, 90 or 130 day options and yearly options of one and two years with ...