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Towers Watson hires senior consultant

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... director for Australia Graeme Miller said. "He is acknowledged as one of Australia's leading strategic thinkers on alternative assets and has published research on a range of issues, including currency management, global macro investing, direct investing ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... survey by Towers Watson and the Financial Times. Macquarie in particular has benefitted from a shift towards alternative assets globally and retains its position as the world's largest manager of infrastructure assets for the second year running, despite ...

VicSuper hires alternative investment specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
VicSuper is joining a wealth of superannuation funds increasing their allocation to alternative assets, and in doing so has appointed a new executive to its investment team. VicSuper recently increased its strategic allocation to alternative assets ...

Blue Sky raises $20m for LIC

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... offer. The funds raised will be used to build on the listed investment company's actively managed portfolio of alternative assets across private equity and venture capital, water and agriculture, hedge funds and private real estate. Blue Sky chief investment ...

Investec launches multi-asset fund for instos

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... across a range of assets including equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities, infrastructure and broader alternative assets. The asset classes are grouped into three baskets categorised by behaviour: growth, defensive and uncorrelated. "Increasingly ...

AB appoints institutional MD

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... an active, research-driven investment manager offering a range of strategies across equities, fixed income, alternative assets and risk management.

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... for funding. Instead, institutions have turned to funding from governments, reserves, investment returns and alternative assets - 70% of funds surveyed invested in at least one alternative asset class, most commonly real estate and infrastructure. As ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns as being an important part of their investment philosophy for alternative assets. This finding is derived from Global Insights on 'ESG in alternative investing research' developed jointly by Mercer ...

Alternatives managers asked to help more with fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... fees of 1.54% compared to 1.65% for funds with a 2008 inception date. "While the fees paid by investors in alternative assets funds have long been a point of contention, the last few years have seen investors become ever more vociferous," Preqin chief ...

Blue Sky reports $2.6 million profit

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... performance across the funds Blue Sky manages, balance sheet exposure to those funds, and investor demand for alternative assets. "Investor allocations to the traditional alternative asset classes of private equity and venture capital, hedge funds, infrastructure ...