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QIC expands US operations with new appointment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... infrastructure investing. "An increasing number of governments around the world are encouraging private sector infrastructure investment and Australia is poised for an estimated A$135 billion wave of energy and transport infrastructure privatisations ...

Whitehelm appointed to advise $2 billion Land Account

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Global infrastructure investment manager Whitehelm Capital has been appointed as investment adviser for the $2 billion Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account. Operating under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005, the Land Account ...

Mercer expands infrastructure team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
Mercer has added to its infrastructure team with the appointment of Farhad Billimoria as investment leader for the Pacific arm of the investment business. Billimoria joins Mercer from the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), where ...

Infrastructure valuations at all-time highs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
Prices for global infrastructure assets traded so far this year are at the highest level on record, according to the latest analysis by alternatives research house Preqin. More than one-third of transactions completed in the year to date were valued ...

Korean military fund puts $40m in Aussie infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... infrastructure, to generate consistent returns in the medium to long term. MMAA hopes to get more Australian Infrastructure investment opportunities through their investment in TIF." The Infrastructure Fund unit holders are AAI Limited, Australian Catholic ...

Are super funds the new shadow banks?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Superannuation funds are increasingly behaving like shadow banks and should be regulated as such, an economist and pension expert from the UK has warned. Dr Bernard Casey of Warwick University said stricter global capital requirements are seeing new ...

UK annuities policy dubbed 'political schizophrenia'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... floated the possibility of introducing compulsory annuitisation in Australia. Speaking at an event on infrastructure investment hosted by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) in Sydney, National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) ...

HOSTPLUS nearly ready for SMSF infra investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
HOSTPLUS' infrastructure investment option for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) is ready to go, pending the approval of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the fund's chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. The option ...

Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
The attractive risk/return profile and high level of income on offer from infrastructure investments mean the asset class is well suited to retail investors, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management head of Australian infrastructure Geoff Frankish. ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
I had pancakes for breakfast. So was everyone else tuned in to overnight trading activity on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index closed flat -- ok, ok... an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie minus 0.01% if one must be pedantic about it -- after declining by as much ...