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Disruptive companies make great investments: Marsico

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... bid for a slice of the Australian market after receiving seed investment from the Future Generation Global Investment Company, the charitable scheme conceived by Wilson Asset Management founder and director Geoff Wilson. The firm's investment approach ...

Target date funds just 3% US retirement assets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... investing in the US yet it comprises just 3% of their retirement system. According to figures released by the Investment Company Institute (ICI), lifecycle investment funds, referred to under the broader category of 'target date' mutual funds', amounted ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... a network that you trust and a pipeline of ideas." In June 2014 Blue Sky launched Australia's first listed investment company offering pure exposure to alternatives. The strategy is targeting SMSF investors but Sowerby says all the underlying investments ...

Star global equity manager to launch in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Marsico's strategy is already available to Australian investors through the ASX-listed Future Generation Global Investment Company, a philanthropic vehicle conceived by Wilson Asset Management's Geoff Wilson and spearheaded by a number of leading local ...

Future Generation IPO raises $300m

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Future Generation Global Investment Company (FGG) has listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) having raised $302.1 million in its initial public offering (IPO). The listed investment company (LIC) is a fund of funds that gives investors access ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... opacity and intervention by the authorities. The AMP Capital China Growth Fund (AGF) is the only managed listed investment company (LIC) in Australia that gives investors exposure to A-shares. The fund has experienced an increase in net asset value of ...

WAM Capital poised to pounce in mixed market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... will create investment opportunities in the year ahead, despite a mixed economic outlook. The group's listed investment company, WAM Capital, grew 35.3% to $806.5 million in the 12 months to 30 June. The company's shareholder base also increased 29.7% ...

PM Capital global fund returns $50.3m

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
ASX-listed investment company PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund has reported a profit after tax of $50.3 million in its first full financial year result. Operating profit before tax for the year to 30 June 2015 was $71.5 million and earnings per ...

Platinum launches Asia LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
Platinum Asset Management has launched Platinum Asia Investments, a listed investment company (LIC) that gives investors exposure to listed companies in the Asia region, ex Japan. Platinum has already lodged the prospectus with the Australian Securities ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... fund's strategy). But even this is an oversimplification. Consider BlueSky's Alternatives Access Fund, a listed investment company (LIC) that invests across private equity and venture capital, hedge funds, private real estate and real assets. This product ...