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Sunsuper flags $116m CFS infrastructure buy

... participate in buying infrastructure assets is through bidding syndicates. For example, Macquarie was among the fund managers that formed a syndicate to bid for the Sydney Airport last year. But through the proposed CFI acquisition, Sunsuper fund members ...

Governments lag on CSR

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... funds to provide for Australians' retirement, they are more concerned than ever that the companies in which their fund managers invest have a sustainable future," Teale said. Teale also said the conclusions suggest most of the current communications ...

QIC and QSuper pour $28b in alpha-beta mandates

... of QIC's radical move announced a year ago to invest $28 billion in separate alpha and beta strategies, with both fund managers awarded around $3 billion each in passive mandates. Many super funds have been keenly watching the movements of QIC, one of ...

AIMA aims for greater hedge fund disclosure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
... and cost explanations. Chairman Kim Ivey said the guidelines aimed to improve information exchanges between hedge fund managers and investors, providing "even greater assurance of the industry's transparency and professionalism." While the guidelines ...

Look before you leap

Investors looking to switch fund managers due to the market turmoil should look beyond performance tables and understand the CGT implications of moving their assets, according to finance expert Michael Hutton. Hutton, a financial planning partner with ...

High net worth clients like it crystal clear

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
... net worth clients when choosing where to park their money are product transparency and access to the underlying fund managers, according to Richard Nicholas, director of Peak Investment Partners. Speaking at the Financial Standard Best Practice Seminar ...

Platforms divided on shelf space fees

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
... marketing at Netwealth, argued shelf fees did have a negative effect on competition. "What shelf space has meant for fund managers is the smaller boutique players are finding it very difficult to distribute their products & so in some regards, shelf ...

Westpac to list wealth management arm

... plans to partially float the investment management business of its subsidiary BT Financial Group, one of the largest fund managers in the country with $40 billion in assets. The partial float is in relation to BT's investment management business only. ...

Barriers to hedging

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... transparency is such a problem he won't use them. "It's very hard for us to actually analyse what the underlying hedge fund managers in a fund of hedge fund arrangement are actually doing to a level of satisfaction." "When you're just investing with ...

UK alternative weightings quadruple

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... at a tiny 0.1 per cent. Despite the low showing to property, the trend to the sector is encouraging news for some fund managers. "Property has, perhaps more than at any other time in recent history, now established itself as the third asset class amongst ...