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NAB boosts private equity admin

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... manager in Asset Servicing, NAB, noted that the ongoing rise in super assets has led to increased allocation to unlisted assets, such as private equity. Transparency and risk management have never been more important to financial institutions, which ...

APRA puts spotlight on super

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... some of the challenges facing the superannuation industry, including liquidity management and the valuation of unlisted assets. The regulator said liquidity management remains a lingering problem for many super funds whose investments in managed investment ...

PAS taps direct property, shifts bonds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... transactions will be completed in the next couple of weeks. The $80 million in direct property will increase the fund's unlisted assets exposure from the current 4 per cent to 9 per cent. PAS traditionally avoids high exposures in unlisted assets, due ...

Busting myths on alternatives: JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... it?" Retail super funds having traditionally favoured listed investments, and only invest around 2 per cent in unlisted assets, according to Rainmaker Information. Coombe's comments come at a time when unlisted investments such as direct infrastructure ...

MLC nabs PM from Alliance Bernstein

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
MLC has appointed a new portfolio manager for property and unlisted assets. Stuart Keighran has joined the investment manager from Alliance Bernstein, and will be responsible for MLC's property and unlisted asset strategies. Keighran will undertake ...

StatewideSuper appoints JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... put into context, the last few years marked a time when many super funds had to write down the value of their unlisted assets, although according to Rainmaker, returns are on the uptrend again recently. The tenders were assessed on a number of criteria ...

APRA warns on unlisted asset valuations

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... practices. Retail super funds have traditionally favoured listed investments, and only invest around 2 per cent in unlisted assets, according to Rainmaker Information. Industry funds on average have over 10 per cent allocated to unlisted investments ...

Mercer appoints head of super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... include Jennifer Cowan, a senior associate in Mercer's global alternatives research boutique, specialising in unlisted assets including private equity and credit. Jo Allen joins Mercer Sentinel, the firm's investment operations specialist team to focus ...

ASSET Super appoints LGT Capital

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... Global Secondaries II product at the end of January this year. The fund actively searches for distressed sellers of unlisted assets. "This is a good opportunity because you're investing after the pain of the first investment and you're hoping to get ...

Universal model tough to execute

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... way," he said. AIST is also worried about the default fund criteria limiting investment opportunities such as unlisted assets, which currently play a vital role in many fund's asset allocations. This follows the report's suggestion that the universal ...