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Northern Trust secures UK charity mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... requirements and navigate these complexities." The Nesta Trust is a newly created independent charity formed from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to provide investments and grants in order to support research, network formation ...

Citi wins elite investment firm mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
Citi has won a mandate from Guggenheim Investment Advisory for a suite of services including middle office, fund administration and custody for Guggenheim's hedge fund platform. Guggenheim Partners currently has more than US$125bn in assets under management ...

SWFs have liabilities to manage too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... idea that an ALM would provide better optimal investment policy. Meanwhile, 63% agreed that there is a need to hedge endowment stream risk. Another obstacle mentioned by some SWFS, according to the report, is that ALM is generally viewed as a country-level ...

Sustainability more than greenwash: Mercer

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... Ambachtsheer. "In terms of buy-in it tends to be public funds, increasingly sovereign wealth funds with activity among endowment and foundations common. "We are starting to see more action from corporate plans, especially where the corporations themselves ...

Hedge fund FUM to hit $2.3 trillion by year end

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
A Deutsche Bank survey of global hedge fund managers finds they expect their combined FUM to climb to $2.3 trillion by the end of 2012. Driving the expectations are institutional investors, HNW and Family Offices looking for investment performance in ...

AMP Capital fund secures US mandate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012

Harvard defies critics with 21% return

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard Endowment Fund's assets, has again defied its critics and posted a stunning 21.4% return for the 12 months to end June 2011, bringing their 20-year average annual return to almost 13%. The ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Super funds modeling their investment strategies on the highly successful Yale Endowment Fund should be careful, warns an academic. The Yale Endowment Fund (YEF) is famous for the high returns it achieves from investment in private equity funds, returns ...

Russell hires 35 new staff, makes three senior appointments

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
Russell Investments has made three new senior appointments and hired 35 staff in a strategic expansion. Former MLC head of business development Christine Cameron has been appointed managing director of institutional sales at Russell where she will drive ...

UK FSA fines false advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011