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NZ Super Fund CEO joins PPI board

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... previously served as a PPI board member from 2014 to 2016, and is also currently chair of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds. "Adrian is well respected among his long-term investment peers and the PPI community. I became PPI's president ...

Future Fund cautious on risk and return

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... global investment environment remains risky and offers little return, weighing considerably on the $127 billion sovereign wealth fund's strategy. Announcing a 7.8% return for the 2016 calendar year, Costello said the Future Fund is working with the Federal ...

Sovereign wealth funds flock to emerging markets

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
New State Street research shows a rising appetite for emerging markets in some of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds. Released in partnership with the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, the report said that half of the SWFs surveyed ...

Australian infrastructure supply must lift: report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... if there are not enough projects on offer domestically. Surveying 20 global and domestic investors - including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, fund managers, developers, banks and insurance companies controlling more than $110 billion in infrastructure ...

HLB Mann Judd expands in WA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... health checks, wealth generation strategies, financial structure advice and estate planning strategy development. Sovereign Wealth was founded 28 years ago by chief executive Marie Richardson, who will be involved with the transition and ongoing client ...

Foreign instos keen on Aussie real estate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... $1 billion. To highlight the interest in industrial real estate from Asian institutions globally, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC recently made the largest European real estate transaction this year - acquiring P3 Logistics Parks for A$3.4 billion. ...

Singapore sovereign wealth fund buys $3.4bn asset

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, GIC, has acquired a major developer and manager of European logistics properties for €2.4 billion ($3.4 billion). P3 Logistics Parts is one of Europe's biggest logistics platforms, with a 3.3 million square metre ...

Future Fund surges to $123 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... Commonwealth Treasurer, Peter Costello. Since then, however, its scope has expanded to operate as a de facto sovereign wealth fund insofar as its capital returns, which now have grown to reach double its seed funding of $61 billion, are a net national ...

Tobacco and super funds must split

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... governments of signatories to this treaty are not allowed to invest in tobacco by any means, including through sovereign wealth funds or public pension funds, though only Australia, New Zealand and Norway have implemented that provision. King cited reputational ...

Russia and India sign investment partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2016
... investment in Indian business. The fund is a partnership between the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia's sovereign wealth fund, and India's National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF). Both funds have contributed US$500 billion to ...