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AustralianSuper nabs Future Fund property exec

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The Future Fund's director of property has joined AustralianSuper as senior investment manager of property. John Longo started at AustralianSuper last week, after leaving the Future Fund, where he worked for over four years. AustralianSuper did not ...

Industry gears for new settlement regime

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Custodians are on track reduce settlement times from three days to two days in time for the official regime change in March 2016. Firms are gearing up to start testing their readiness for the new T+2 Settlement regime in October. "Reducing settlement ...

Blue Sky delivers 68% profit as alternatives rally

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has reported record profit and assets under management as investors find growth in alternatives. The manager reported an underlying net profit after tax of $10.4 million for the year to 30 June 2014, 68% up from $6.2 ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... leave it in September 2014. At the same time, the Dodd-Frank reforms in the United States and the European Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive have heightened the regulatory environment that funds are facing. A recent Financial Times investigation ...

Super fund goes nuts for returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
First State Super has hinted at further investment in Australia's agriculture industry after purchasing a major stake in almond orchards, the country's highest grossing horticultural export. Yesterday Select Harvests Limited (SHV) announced to the Australian ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... When Perpetual acting general manager for regulated fiduciary services Rupert Smoker attended the Global Alternative Investment Management (GAIM) conference in Amsterdam in June, he saw a telling narrative playing out: the US was indisputably leading ...

Fidante buys UK alternatives manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
Challenger's boutique funds management arm, Fidante Partners, has acquired a European alternative investments manager based in London. The buyout of Dexion Capital Holdings adds to Fidante's other UK-based managers, which include global infrastructure ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
Assets managed by the top 25 alternative investment managers in Australia has grown to more than US$250 billion ($338 billion), according to the latest survey by Towers Watson and the Financial Times. Macquarie in particular has benefitted from a shift ...

VicSuper hires alternative investment specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
VicSuper is joining a wealth of superannuation funds increasing their allocation to alternative assets, and in doing so has appointed a new executive to its investment team. VicSuper recently increased its strategic allocation to alternative assets ...

Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
Pension funds are loading up on alternative investments in response to declining asset returns according to an annual report from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Pension funds in the UK and US are reported to be driving the shift with the ...