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Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Illiquid and alternative asset strategies will only increase across the institutional investment market in 2016 according to latest reports from BlackRock and Willis Towers Watson. A BlackRock survey of more than 170 of the firm's largest institutional ...

S&P launches long-term sustainability index

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched the S&P Long-Term Value Creation (LTVC) Global Index, aimed at tracking companies with the potential to create "long-term value". Developed jointly with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the LTVC index measures ...

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Port of Brisbane has been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension ...

Governance becoming key investor concern

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
Corporate governance is becoming a key differentiator for investors, according to Aberdeen Asset Management. Based on a survey of 293 institutional investors, trustees, managers and consultants in the UK, Europe, North America, Canada and Asia-Pacific ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

BNP Paribas loses custody deal to RBC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
A $5.5 billion fund manager has ended its custody agreement with BNP Paribas and appointed Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Bangarra Group-owned Bennelong Funds Management has appointed RBC Investor and Treasury Services as its new custodian an administrator ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
A Macquarie executive responsible for setting up the group's global investments division in Canada has left to join a boutique funds management firm. Perth-based NWQ Capital Management has appointed Stuart McClure as managing director. McClure has over ...

Van Eck lists gold miners ETF on ASX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Van Eck Global will list the world's largest gold exchange traded fund (ETF) in the ASX so investors can access global gold mining companies of all sizes. The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is a diversified portfolio of global gold equities that ...

Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
Pension funds are loading up on alternative investments in response to declining asset returns according to an annual report from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Pension funds in the UK and US are reported to be driving the shift with the ...

APAC fastest growing region for millionaire investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
Asia Pacific is the region where the number of high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals grew faster during 2014, the World Wealth Report found. The 19th edition of the report by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management revealed that high net worths ...