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Instos to buy more alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... emerging as a real global investment vehicle for Australian institutional investors," Stephen Roberts, institutional investment services managing director at Russell, said. "Strategic allocation to real estate among Australian respondents averages 9.6 ...

Investing by 2020

... management industry over the next ten years, including the ongoing separation of alpha and beta returns. "Institutional investment is based on the search for alpha or outperformance, however, active investment managers have long battled against the erosion ...

Russell wins $3bn ACT Treasury mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2007
... consulting firms in an open tender process to win the mandate. Stephen Roberts, managing director of institutional investment services at Russell, said, "we are very excited by the opportunity to work with the ACT Treasury to help secure the best results ...

Cambridge opens Down Under

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
The 800-strong institutional investment and research group Cambridge Associates is opening a Sydney office to meet demand from local funds and managers for better global research and information services. This will be the firm's seventh office worldwide ...

Russell adds two to insto team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
Russell Investment Group has announced two senior appointments to its Australian institutional investment services team. Dr Geoffrey Warren has been appointed senior research associate and will report to Glenn Smith, director institutional investment ...

Alternative goes mainstream as long-only dies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... strategies and the implementation of sophisticated risk-management programs are now top priorities for many institutional investment funds. "This has resulted in funds moving some of their assets away from benchmark-sensitive approaches to make meaningful ...

Russell Select scores $400m mandate

... for wholesale investors, all of which UniSuper snapped up this month. Russell's managing director in institutional investment services said that UniSuper's swift and decisive commitment was a strong validation of the group's investment process and 'alpha ...

Allco adds two to team ahead of new products

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2006
... of property and transport, is working on a range of new products to push third party distribution and institutional investment. "We are working on creating and managing additional investment vehicles to support the asset finance activities and generate ...

Russell re-shuffle to tap alternatives with $8bn more on board

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
... and alternative strategies. Rob Pereira joins the investment consulting team as a research associate in institutional investment services from his previous posting at OFM Investment Group where he was an investment analyst. Andrew Lane also rejoins the ...

Commodities protect against inflation and still give performance: BT

... what China teach us, he says, is that something has fundamentally changed in demand for commodities. Institutional investment into the futures market is currently very small, with the New Zealand Super Fund being one of the few high profile funds to ...