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Austock Life strikes $100m

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... Perpetual funds were also suited up with new options. "We are seeing an emerging market for insurance bonds as alternative investments to superannuation, especially for investors facing age-based or work-test contribution restrictions. Monies exiting ...

130/30 demand drops

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... shakeout coupled with ongoing demand for sustainable returns should in turn spur investors to turn to alternative investments. "More and more are going to realise that endowment funds, who are putting up to 30 per cent into alternative investments for ...

Soft commodity a hard buy

... agricultural-based and commodity-based funds to find enough assets. Craig Swanger, Macquarie Group head of alternative investments said Macquarie created a pastoral fund three years ago that invested in Australian farms to benefit from rising soft commodity ...

Short selling shouldn't be sold short

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
The overreaction against short selling and securities lending need to calm down, said Greenwich Alternative Investments. "Short selling provides liquidity and allows you to make calls in both directions," said Ryan Pearson, Greenwich senior vice president ...

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 ...