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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 ...

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 ...