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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 ...

RREEF expands client relations

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... Pacific region, which has been experiencing strong and steady growth off the back of increasing demand for alternative investments," said Kurt Roeloffs, chief executive officer, RREEF Asia Pacific.

Industry funds not holding up transfers: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... complaints earlier this year by some industry funds against the retail segment. Funds that have illiquid alternative investments may also find it difficult to calculate valuations instantaneously, said Penny Walster, Rainmaker's head of data services. ...

Instos to buy more alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... investors will continue to pour more money into private equity and real estate, according to a new report on alternative investments. The annual Russell Investments Survey on Alternative Investing report surveyed 326 institutions with more than A$1 billion ...

All aboard SimCorp Xpress

... Australian-based fund managers after software specialist SimCorp expanded XpressInstruments, a software module for alternative investments. Visiting Australia last week, SimCorp's global chief executive Peter Ravn, said that expanding XpressInstruments ...

HSBC brings alts business Down Under

... joins the growing list of alternatives specialists in Australia with its newly established business, HSBC Alternative Investments Limited (HAIL). HAIL Australia will distribute funds of hedge funds (FOHFs) to local wholesale investors and cater for institutional ...

Future fund appoints another private equity expert

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... intended to hire further specialists in infrastructure and real estate. Reflecting the opportunities within alternative investments, a Deutsche Bank report, Alternative Investments In Perspective, found alternative assets, including private equity and ...