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QIC raises $1 billion for infrastructure fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... (QGIF), reaching roughly 50% of its target. Investors in the fund include Hostplus as well as "an Asian sovereign wealth fund, one of China's leading insurers and two foundation QIC clients," according to QIC's statement. QGIF will focus on infrastructure ...

Climate change to impact financial systems

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... the sectors most exposed to this phenomenon. Some institutions are following suit; Norway's US$882 billion sovereign wealth fund, for example, announced it was divesting further coal holdings in May.

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Institutional investors might be too confident that their downside protection strategies can cope with market drawdowns. A recent report by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) found investors largely rely on a small number of downside protection strategies ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Industry superannuation funds may deploy up to $15 billion additional capital over the next five years after Australia joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Industry Super Australia (ISA) chair, Peter Collins, said activities of the ...

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Institutional investors' traditional emphasis on asset allocation has given way to a focus on returns, which has led to the "bondification" of equities, a global report found. The 2015 CREATE-Research report commissioned by Principal Global Investors ...

Fund manager fees too high: David Neal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... each asset class would have a "profound impact" on the Future Fund's culture and therefore the $117 billion sovereign wealth fund continues to rely on "strongA partnershipsA withA managersA under arrangementsA that areA asA costA effectiveA andA wellA ...

Future Fund and AustralianSuper settle court case

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... has not admitted any liability," it added. The case started in 2013, when AustralianSuper questioned the sovereign wealth fund's acquisition of an $875 million stake in Perth airport, as part of an agreement in 2012 to acquire $2 billion of airport assets ...

North American sovereigns hardest hit by oil crisis

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
Sovereign wealth funds in North America will suffer the biggest impacts of the sharp drop in oil prices, rather than those in oil-producing emerging markets. Invesco's Global Sovereign Asset Management Study shows that the majority (80%) of North American ...

World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests coal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
Norway's Parliament has voted to divest further coal holdings from the country's US$882 billion sovereign wealth fund. Specifically, the country's finance committee will sell ownership in companies with more than a 30% stake in coal-related business. ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...