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Harvard Endowment Fund chief quits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive of Harvard Management Company (HMC) and manager of the $41.5 billion Harvard Endowment Fund, has announced his resignation, effective at the end of 2007. He will return to California-based Pacific Investment Management ...

Government in fund frenzy

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
... blitz yesterday with announcement of a new Health and Medical Infrastructure Fund, adding to the new Higher Education Endowment Fund and the Future Fund. Seeded with an initial $2.5 billion, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said that figure would grow ...

Cambridge opens Down Under

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... firm's current client base to allocate funds more globally, as evidenced by the doubling of non-US investments in our endowment universe's average equity allocation in the last five years." Cambridge has been operating since 1973 and provides investment ...

Sunsuper awards $580m mandate to US endowment fund

Sunsuper has appointed Makena Capital Management, a US-based pioneer in private endowment investing, to manage $580 million (US$500 million) of its portfolio. Under the agreement, Sunsuper and Makena Capital will work collaboratively on investment strategy ...

QIC awards $570m mandate to US endowment fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
QIC has awarded a US$500 million mandate to Makena Capital, a US-based endowment and foundation (E&F) fund. Brad Holzberger, QIC strategy general manager, said the mandate was awarded for strategic reasons. "Investing in E&F funds is more about investing ...

'Tis the season to be philanthropic

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
... one philanthropy workshop appear in the space of 48 hours. Goldman Sachs JBWere yesterday launched their Charitable Endowment Fund (CEF), allowing investors to donate returns on invested capital in the form of grants to charitable organisations. The ...

Hedge and non-hedge collide

... to the vanilla type of returns that [traditional managed fund] investors are locked into," he said. Calling it "Yale endowment envy", after the growing number of fund managers hoping to clone the high returns of the Yale Endowment Fund, Rogers said the ...

Super choice Budget boost

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... policy hardly likely to hit the Budget too hard. But the major industry development is the establishment of the Education Endowment Fund (EEF) which puts $5 billion into the investment markets through the creation of a dedicated investment fund that ...

Manage risks not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... sides of the strategy." Shifting to these newer strategies must be done shrewdly however, as funds must guard against "endowment envy" where "uninformed money is going into exotic asset classes." It will be counterproductive and contaminate the correlations ...

Macquarie makes it easy to invest in agriculture

... industry in the United States where institutional involvement remains strong in agri-investing. He highlights the Yale Endowment fund as an example where the institutional fund has a targeted 20 per cent allocation to "real assets" including timberland. ...