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Future Fund ahead of target on tenth birthday

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... including real estate and infrastructure. The investment team has been finding opportunistic returns in its private equity portfolio predominantly in venture capital and early stage investments, benefitting particularly from the innovation and disruption ...

Henderson launches emerging markets fund in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
Henderson has launched its Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund in the Australian market. Based on a high conviction portfolio of 40-80 companies across multiple countries and industry sectors, the fund was described by Henderson head of emerging markets ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... 650-700 companies it believes are having a positive impact on the four areas of focus into a competitive global equity portfolio. The universe includes companies that make water metering equipment or provide drugs to address particularly diseases. "When ...

Greencape wins top Zenith rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
Boutique Australian equities fund manager Greencape Capital has received two 'Highly Recommended' ratings from researcher Zenith. The Greencape Wholesale High Conviction Fund and the Greencape Wholesale Broadcap Fund were upgraded from Recommended to ...

Australasia sees continued Canadian investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... Andre Bourbonnais said the manager suffered from public equity markets posting negative returns and its private equity portfolio underperforming. However, "most of our private market asset classes, and more particularly real estate, recorded strong returns ...

Swedish pension giant commits to total decarbonisation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, known as AP4, has allocated 21.8 %, or around $4.2 billion of its global equity portfolio to low carbon strategies and says it is now prepared to follow up with its long-term target to decarbonize its entire global ...

MLC adds to SMA suite

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
MLC has added the Antares Ex-20 Australian Equities Separately Managed Account (SMA) portfolio to the MLC Wrap and MLC Navigator platforms. The Antares Ex-20 Australia Equities SMA portfolio is an actively managed, highly-concentrated portfolio of Australian ...

Morningstar introduces global risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
Morningstar has launched its first global risk model for investors. The risk model is targeted at equity portfolios at the outset, but Morningstar plans to expand to other asset classes in the future. It currently evaluates over 40,000 stocks and 10,000 ...

T. Rowe Price strengthens global offering

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... the impact of a rising Australian dollar on international investments while accessing a high conviction, global equity portfolio. T. Rowe Price managing director Australia and New Zealand Murray Brewer said that while Australian advisers and investors ...

NZ Super appoints two board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... shareholder in Z Energy, with a residual holding of approximately 5.8 million shares within its listed New Zealand equity portfolio. NZ Super Fund head of international direct investment, Nigel Gormly, said Z Energy had been an excellent investment with ...