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Tower pursues more insurance mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... still. "In the last 12 months or so, the funds were more focused on the investment related issues, with the GFC and unlisted assets. "A number of the trustees will be looking at us and it wouldn't surprise me if funds next year did revisit their insurance ...

Rising risks in liquidity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... asset classes. Rosario said that one of the more sobering lesson of the GFC was the group's high allocation to unlisted assets and lack of government bonds in the portfolio. Today, the fund has a 5 per cent allocation in government bonds and a higher ...

Unlisted assets should be limited: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... controversy, his call for illiquid assets to be valued at least annually should be welcomed as most funds using unlisted assets are already moving in this direction. "Illiquid assets should be valued at least 12 monthly and illiquid funds should be required ...

Platforms bounce back 7.9 pc

... down from its 2007 peak. Driving the platform recovery is their higher weighting to equities and low exposure to unlisted assets, enabling them to simultaneously take best advantage of this year's stock market rally and sidestep the downward valuation ...

MAP Super seeks alternatives, hires Bennelong

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... traditional equities and listed property. MAP is looking to include infrastructure, private equity, hedge funds and unlisted assets such as property into its portfolio. The fund, which had around $200 million in funds under management at the end of June ...

Liquidity problem in unlisted assets overstated: RWA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Liquidity is not a problem for most funds with high weightings to unlisted assets because they are protected by strong positive cashflows and most members are in the diversified default option. The criticism against unlisted valuation practices by retail ...

Super funds stage comeback

... reports that economists are now lowering their unemployment forecasts only adds weight to these trend," he said. If unlisted assets are devalued further, retail super funds, which usually have higher share weightings could soon climb the league tables ...

Shift to altern assets fuel valuation concerns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Rising levels of alternative assets has exacerbated concerns over valuation policies for unlisted assets, according to APRA's latest Insight report. The biggest problem for the regulator is fund reporting cycles being much more frequent than asset valuation ...

Unlisted valuations on track: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
Super funds with unlisted assets can breathe easier knowing that more than 93 per cent of their alternative investment managers are strictly following their valuation policies, according to a survey by Frontier Investment Consulting. Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

AMP Cap continues senior hiring spree

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
AMP Capital Investors hired Warwick Mancini as head of investment specialists for unlisted assets and Brigette Leckie as senior investment specialist for Asia Pacific equities. Mancini joins AMP Capital Investors from Macquarie Group where he worked ...