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Findex partners to advance medical research

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... Medical Sciences. The partnership will discuss potential recommendations to the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund - a perpetual endowment fund aiming to allocate $1 billion annually for priority-driven medical research. Findex global ...

Future Fund keeps powder dry

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
The Future Fund has continued to de-risk its portfolio amid market uncertainty, preferring to keep cash on hand to take advantage when opportunities are more certain. Figures released in its recent update for the March quarter, show the $117 billion ...

NZ Super Fund sells private equity investments

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... operations to help meet long-term commitments. The paper, which interviewed several Australian superannuation funds and the Future Fund, noted one asset owner shared the view "many pension clients would like fewer, but deeper, external manager relationships." ...

Australian of the Year appointed $3bn government health fund chair

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
... Year and co-developer of the HPV vaccine has been appointed chair of the government's $3 billion Medical Research Future Fund's newly-established Advisory Board. Ian Frazer was previously chief executive and director of research at the Translational ...

Alternative mandates eclipse equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... operations to help meet long-term commitments. The paper, which interviewed several Australian superannuation funds and the Future Fund, noted one asset owner shared the view "many pension clients would like fewer, but deeper, external manager relationships." ...

Funds under management to hit $8tr by 2035: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... fund managers based on Australian-sourced FUM as at September 2015 were State Street Global Advisors Australia, the Future Fund, AMP Capital Investors, MLC Investment Management and Colonial First State Global Asset Management. Rounding up the top 10 ...

$1m does not make you rich, Australians say

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... help middle class families. "Whether it be the Hawke/Keating super reforms of the 80s and 90s, or the 2006 Howard-era Future Fund, both sides of politics have made substantial contributions to help to 'save retirement'. Yet we know people contribute ...

Future Fund puts in another strong year

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
The Future Fund has grown has almost doubled its assets under management to $118.4 billion from the initial investment of $60.5 billion seeded by the government in 2006. In a portfolio update briefing, the sovereign wealth fund said it has been paring ...

Report highlights sea-change in asset owner operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... based on a follow the sun model," BNP Paribas Securities Services head of Australia and New Zealand David Braga said. Future Fund managing director David Neal said for those who outsource asset management, principal-agent issues persist. The Future Fund ...

Future Fund awarded sovereign investor of 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... returns in 2015, collecting sovereign investor of the year at the 2016 Central Banking Awards. Managing director of the Future Fund, David Neal, said fund had to make certain it was not brought in to financial crisis aftershocks. "While the global economy ...