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AMG buys Pantheon Ventures

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Affiliated Managers Group is paying US$775 million for Pantheon Ventures, a subsidiary of Russell Investments. AMG said in a press statement that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Pantheon for $775 million in cash, with the potential ...

Macquarie wins award for agricultural fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management (MAFM) has been named Real Asset Manager of the Year at the Foundation & Endowment Money Management's Nonprofit Awards for Excellence. The title was given in recognition of achievements during the last year through ...

Future Fund books 4.2pc loss

FUTURE FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... finalised, assets were invested mainly in Australian bank bills, consistent with the mandate for the former Higher Education Endowment Fund (HEEF), generating annualised returns of 3.5 per cent pa, it added. The HEEF was discontinued in December last ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... through the Financial Services Reforms (FSR) in 2004. In addition, many of the advice services in the UK focus around endowment contracts and selling life insurance products while Australia has a more mature "holistic" advice operation, said Ian Knox ...

Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A record number of super funds and endowments will replace their fund managers later this year to get rid of poor-performing funds and make way for new asset allocation strategies, predicts Mellon Transition Management. MTM, the transition management ...

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers are expected to heap an ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... showed that institutional investor returns were off by approximately 25 per cent for the median corporate, public and endowment/foundation fund. Meanwhile new figures from Northern Trust note that U.S. institutional investment plan sponsors recorded ...

Instos cool on direct infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... about putting more money in that area." These concerns are also reflected in the survey results. Pension, super and endowment funds said the biggest impact on the fund's performance would be uncertainty around the global financial crisis and liquidity. ...

Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The $27 billion Stanford University endowment fund has slashed and frozen salaries, trimmed staff numbers and tightened its budget as its portfolio shrinks by 25 per cent. In a recent media statement, Stanford said it planned to cut close to $156 million ...

ETF assets to reach $1.6 trillion

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Exchange traded funds (ETF) assets are set to eclipse the $1.6 trillion mark in the next two years - $500 billion more than its current assets, new research by Strategic Insight shows. Assets in global exchange traded funds raked in more than $1.1 trillion ...