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UniSuper to shed mandates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... mandates outstanding as of December 2010. More than half the charters - 98 in total - were allocated to alternative investments such as airports in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, a Texas toll road and some plantations. Some of the contracts were with ...

Market volatility making boomers nervous

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... allocation models to deal with market volatility with 51 per cent of adviser respondents agreeing that alternative investments manage volatility.

PE-Backed IPO exits top $10bn in 2011 YTD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... last year and is already $10 billion year to date 2011. Preqin, a research firm that specialises in the alternative investments sector, has just released a survey showing that there were 145 IPO exits in 2010. This was double the value of all exits in ...

Statewide cuts staff, boost sales

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... with Australian equities, global equities and fixed income. It will also continue to reduce its overall alternative investments exposure, said O'Flaherty. "[Alternatives exposure] is about 33 to 34 per cent at the moment, we're trying to get it down ...

Ireland looks to sovereign annuities

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... meet their obligations to pensioners, rather than relying on the unpredictable returns of equities or alternative investments. Regulations will be changed to allow pension funds to re-price their liabilities on the basis of the higher yields offered ...

Prime Super restructures equities portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... process of appointing new managers," said Baird. Meanwhile, Baird flagged the fund's intentions to add more alternative investments to its investment portfolio. The fund will seek infrastructure, property, and credit opportunities next year. "We spent ...

Westscheme sells $300m Brisbane property

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... Westscheme said while the property was of a high quality, the prospective returns for fund members from alternative investments exceed that from continuing to hold Brisbane Square. The property is an 'A' grade commercial office tower located in the Brisbane ...

Mixed results for US industry giants

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... products, with 30 per cent into fixed income and the balance split across multi-asset class products and alternative investments. According to Rainmaker Information, BlackRock was Australia's sixth largest fund manager at June 30th, with over $42 billion ...

AvSuper awards hedge fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... funds. The two new managers are replacements for the fund's previous investments in London-based Duet Alternative Investments and Colonial First State. CFS' fund of hedge funds strategy was wound up around two years ago, while the Duet mandate was terminated ...

KPMG appoints James O'Leary to alt investments

NEWS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
KPMG has hired the former head of property and alternative investments at Colonial First State Global Asset Management for its one of its growing advisory practices. James O'Leary had been hired as a specialist adviser for KPMG's alternative investment ...