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SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
State Street Global Advisors has been selected by UK-based Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to manage a $200 million hedge fund replication mandate. The Hedge Fund Beta Replication Strategy replicates the average performance of a group of hedge ...

Diversity wins at State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, is to launch a range of diversified growth strategies using both traditional and alternative asset classes. These strategies will invest across a combination ...

Ascalon treads global commodity path

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... returns. The St.George and Kaplan Equity Limited co-owned Ascalon has teamed up with absolute return manager H3 Global Advisors Pty Limited to launch the Ascalon H3 Commodities Fund. The new fund provides investors with exposure to a diversified commodities ...

Future Fund to become top insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... Australian equities and listed property portions of the portfolio, and sharing the spotlight with rival State Street Global Advisors in global equities. With the remainder of the portfolio, which is currently held in cash, the investment managers appointed ...

SSgA launches Global Total Equity Returns in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
Harnessing investor appetite for products focusing on risk management, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is launching their Global Equity Total Return product into the Australian market. Arlene Rockefeller, CFA and senior managing director of global ...

Future Fund appoints equities investment director

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
... investment director of international equities at VFMC, and previously worked in London and Melbourne for Northern Trust Global Advisors, AXA Multimanager and William M Mercer. She will build and manage the fund's external active equity manager portfolio ...

The long and the short of JANA

... managers of the trust have a maximum 140/40 limit. The underlying managers for the global product are State Street Global Advisors Global Alpha Plus, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Global Flex and Acadian Global Equities Long Short. Meanwhile, the local ...

More money on money

... globalisation of investments is driving more pension funds to adopt savvier currency strategies, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). SSgA has enjoyed a more than doubling of its currency assets globally to $115 billion (US$100 billion) ...

Alpha-beta separation boosts indexing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
... driving new inflows into index funds, according to Susan Darroch, head of structured products at State Street Global Advisors. While recent market returns have done little to harm index funds' reputations, Darroch said the desire for alpha and beta separation ...

State Street's 130/30 funds gain $10bn Edge

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) today announced their innovative 130/30 Edge funds had broken through the US$10 billion mark in assets under management. The world's first 130/30 product, first launched in December 2004 in Sydney, Australian Alpha ...