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BGI appoints CIO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Barclays Global Investors' Australian chief executive, Morry Waked, has been promoted to chief investment officer and global head for BGI's global active equity business. Waked has handed over his responsibilities for Australia although he retains his ...

Innovators, imitators and idiots

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Yale Endowment wannabes trying to emulate their heroes with high exposures to timber products pushed up prices to 30 times pre-tax cash flow, setting them up for big falls in 2009. The frenzy, reported by Barron's, a newsletter published by the Wall ...

Social investment MIS targets community projects

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... involvement with the charity sector gives them expertise finding projects they can structure through various tax and endowment arrangement that are not available to super funds or project finance groups, said Ball. While the CIF currently only holds ...

Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... equity allocation and BlackRock Investment Management manages its overlay strategies. The $6.3 billion Higher Education Endowment Fund returned 1.77 per cent for the quarter and 6.84 per cent since inception in September 2007. The fund's mandate restricts ...

Future Fund is $652m richer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... to be - more of the same or something different?', And we are going to be different." Meanwhile, the Higher Education Endowment Fund (HEEF), which the Future Fund board also manages, returned 4.99 per cent since September last year. The fund's two billion ...

US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
More than 45 per cent of major US pension funds and endowments are reviewing their securities lending programs after a number suffered liquidity issues during the worst of the credit crisis last year. This year financial services firm Greenwich Associates ...

QIC favours endowment funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
The $80 billion QIC has poured $570 million into US endowment-style fund manager Global Endowment Fund - marking QIC's continued interest in the sector. GEM, led by ex-Duke Endowment CIO Stephanie Lynch and former Duke University Management chief executive ...

QIC fixed interest bucks trend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... opportunities with no correlation to major asset classes. QIC, which recently invested $500 million in US-based Global Endowment Management, has been fine tuning its investment strategies to make the best out of current market volatility. Tweaking its ...

Who plays the PE game, wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... exceeded more than 18 per cent. However, overall respondents expected to boost their allocation to alternative assets, with Endowment and Foundations (E&Fs) leading the pack and planning to allocate more than 36 per cent of its portfolio to alternatives ...

Hedge funds turn insto

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... international strategy consultancy Celent, large hedge funds are undergoing institutionalisation as US pension plans and endowment funds demand players display vigorous operation capabilities to satisfy demanding due diligence requirements. "Many hedge ...