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Agriculture wins pension fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... Blomfield, managing director of Carthona Agriculture, said increasing mandates and interest from pension and sovereign wealth funds into agriculture investments have been one of the key reasons behind the merger between Carthona and Rural Management ...

Money flows lead to Africa

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... it is a phenomenon caused by the demise of access to easy financing. At the other end of the spectrum, sovereign wealth funds attained a record FDI high in 2008 - although they too faced challenges caused by falling export earnings in their home countries. ...

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 ...

SWF Institute opens trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... liquid way to trade. The platform provides access to hedge, equity and private equity funds and also allows sovereign wealth funds to search for large scale assets such as real estate offices and large scale infrastructure projects. The Sovereign Wealth ...

Norway SWF adopts ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
One of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, Norway's Government Pension Fund - Global is putting more emphasis on responsible investing with tighter regulations on environmental, social and good corporate governance. The fund previously had two ...

Sovereign funds lose out after bank bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... have direct share ownership in the banks bailed out during last year's crisis could dilute the returns of sovereign wealth funds and pensions funds that hold stake in US finance stocks. This week the US government, in concert with the Federal Reserve ...

Sovereign wealth funds to buy more equities

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Nearly one third of sovereign wealth funds that control over $7 trillion in assets are aiming to increase their investments in equity markets during the second half of 2009, new figures show. According to a survey by FD, 70 per cent of the hedge funds ...

SWFs back alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
The $3.8 trillion sovereign wealth funds sector is expected to pour more money into alternatives to diversify their portfolios, new research shows. "We can expect that sovereign wealth funds [will] progressively diversify into a broader range of investment ...

Super funds are not 'blameless'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... and the insurance sector combined is six times larger than the so-called "powerbrokers", which includes sovereign wealth funds and petrol-rich companies, representing more than $73 trillion. "The concentration of wealth is probably held by PRI signatories ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... hold annual general meetings. Empire Oil & Gas NL holds a general meeting. Mercer will host a briefing on sovereign wealth funds by Future Fund chairman David Murray. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations releases its skilled ...