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Portfolio disclosure's unintended consequences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... workplace super market, will begin to be implemented from June this year. But a growing proportion of managers of alternative assets for superannuation funds are concerned the rules around portfolio disclosure don't adequately reflect the commercial ...

Blue Sky hires ex-Certitude exec to run new office

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... responsible for servicing increasing demand across key corporate accounts, advisory groups and family offices for alternative assets in both Victoria and South Australia. Siapantas has experience dealing with a wide range of investors, private banks ...

Sovereign wealth funds up alternatives exposure in 2012

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
Global sovereign wealth funds have significantly increased their allocations to alternative assets such as real estate, private equity and hedge funds, according to a recent Invesco survey. The fund manager's annual Global Sovereign Asset Management ...

Fund member admin in spotlight at super forum

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... risk, after tax investing and reporting, emerging technologies and automation, and back office support for alternative assets. Back office administration and member services have become areas of discussion of late following the introduction of My Super ...

Blue Sky grows revenue 48%

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... out new ideas, absolute performance and alignment. This is driving a greater proportion of global savings to alternative assets. "Our offerings across private equity, private real estate, hedge funds and real assets (currently water and water infrastructure) ...

Tyndall concentrated fund gets Zenith 'recommended' rating

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... specialising in Australian shares, international shares, Australian fixed interest, international fixed interest and alternative assets. As at 30 June 2013, Tyndall AM's investment teams manage approximately A$23 billion in funds on behalf of retail ...

ACFS flummoxed by SMSF cash trend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... investors, and the fact that they allocate a significant share of their assets to risky classes (unlisted property, alternative assets and direct equities) reinforces that impression." The authors said that, as the SMSF sector is relatively immature ...

Macquarie Group tops global alternative investment table

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Australian financial services firm Macquarie Group is the world's largest investor in alternative assets with almost $95 billion invested in infrastructure, according to research by Towers Watson and the Financial Times. Total assets managed by the ...

Investment in alternative assets on the rise globally

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
Institutional investors around the globe are allocating more to alternative assets such as listed real estate, private equity and infrastructure, according to the AMP Capital Institutional Investor Report. AMP surveyed institutional investors in Asia ...

FFMA is on track to break $100bn barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... Twenty nine per cent of its FUM is, however, invested into private equity, infrastructure and timberland and alternative assets, a weighting that is more than double the typical allocation into these asset classes compared to even not-for-profit funds. ...