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Alternatives cause valuation headaches

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... retail super funds. Proebstl said regulators and super funds should improve the level of monitoring of alternative investments. This follows a Deloitte survey of 22 super funds that found roughly one third of the super fund industry were unhappy with ...

Prime Super switches custody

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... last year. Under Access Capital Advisers' guidance, the super fund's investment strategy now included alternative investments, particularly private equity, absolute return funds and infrastructure, to gain alpha. The fund's equities portfolios are passively ...

Super funds critical on alt investment regulation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... from 22 super funds including AMP Super, ING Australia, Suncorp and CBUS. The survey found the super fund alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity and infrastructure was had not been met with more regulation. "The areas of concern ...

Superfund Group pans for Australian gold

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... fund specialist, Superfund Group, is extending its operations down under to tap into the local demand for alternative investments and commodities. "It could not be better timing for us to expand our product offering to Australia given the string local ...

Investment fees jump 50pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
A growing appetite for alternative investments has led to superannuation funds paying 50 per cent more on investment fees than five years ago, according to Watson Wyatt. The report titled, A fairer deal on fees, found investment fees, on average, had ...

RREEF offloads half stake in DEXUS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
Deutsche Bank global alternative investment manager, RREEF Alternative Investments, has sold its 50 per cent interest in DEXUS Property Group to the firm's unit holders. DEXUS Property Group was formally known as DB RREEF Group. Kurt Roeloffs, RREEF ...

Future Fund on the defense

... Allocation Summit in Sydney where he is a key presenter. But with the fund's private markets team on board, alternative investments providers should prepare for the beauty parade. "All the market talk about alternatives is a sign of a fantastic and dynamic ...

New era for investment analysts

The unprecedented demand for alternative investments in the past two years has turned the world of the investment analyst completely upside down and has inspired the industry's leading experts to go back to "school" to teach the new rules. The Investment ...

CAAM capitalises on crisis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... markets to capitalise on mispricing within the sector. Carl Dunning-Gribble, chief investment manager in alternative investments at CAAM, said the firm would weight its alternative investments in US high yield, fixed income arbitrage and convertible ...

ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... allocation proposal included global high dividend, global property securities, global fixed income and alternative investments. David McClatchy, chief executive at ING IM, said winning the mandate vindicated ING IM's processes. ING has more than A$555 ...