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QIC targets overseas instos

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
QIC has opened the firm's Global Fixed Interest Alpha fund to international investors. Launched in 2005, the fund uses absolute return strategies across fixed income global macro markets and credit derivatives. The fund posted a gross return of more ...

Treasury boutiques gain inflows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... Infrastructure and Orion Asset Management have received inflows in the past month after a seven-month dry spell, suggesting some instos are dripfeeding capital back into boutiques. "Clients were frozen for six or seven months, but in January and February ...

Instos win $5.5m in sustainable grants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Colonial First State Global Asset Management, AMP Capital Investors and ING Management received more than $5.5 million worth of government grants to make the firms' invested properties more sustainable. The grants were awarded last week as part of the ...

Instos pump $700bn into Islamic finance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
The Islamic finance market has grown by as much as 20 per cent each year for the past six years and is now a $700 billion plus industry, according to State Street. The firm's latest Vision Report on the subject estimated that total assets under management ...

TAAM strategy scores mandate boost

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... October and $62 million from Skandia in June. Since then, the firm has received mandate top ups from three existing large instos, including one from Australia. "Three of our existing insto clients have significantly increased their exposure [to Asian ...

Fee disclosure for intermediaries: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... of placement agents - specialist firms which act as intermediaries to match fund managers with the right products with instos looking to invest - and fees paid to those agents. "This new policy is in response to reports about the lack of transparency ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... highly liquid assets and portfolio have been the standout feature of the firm and what continues to attract mandates as instos flock to best of breed hedge FoF managers. "You need to focus on liquid strategies and assets," said Holland. Liongate's multi-strategy ...

Instos search for cash alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
Corporate investors and government bodies are assessing alternatives to holding funds in government guaranteed deposits as cash rates fall and the $1 million fee eats away at returns. Subash Pillai, executive director and head of cash and fixed interest ...

Instos hold the ace in direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... now we're in the front of the queue, looking at assets we haven't seen in quite a few years, so there's opportunities for instos [to tap] in that," he said. The survey also confirmed that 80 of 100 fund managers believed access to funding will present ...

Passive managers win insto favour

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
State Street Global Advisors is experiencing an influx of passive style investment mandates as Aussie instos continue favouring passive managers. Robert Goodlad, senior managing director of State Street Global Advisors Australia, said State Street had ...