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Alt assets boom in uncertain times

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... delivered higher returns than the traditional offerings of stocks and bonds," he said. According to the paper, Alternative Investments In Perspective, over the past 10 years a portfolio that included alternative strategies fared better than a traditional ...

Intech alt fund posts 16pc

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... per cent late last year, but underperformed the MSCI World Index from February to May this year. Head of alternative investments, Michael Coop, said the fund's success during the recent sub-prime crisis proved the fund's effectiveness in a volatile environment. ...

More rich get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... internationalising their investment portfolios and, over time re-balancing their asset allocations in favour of alternative investments, equities and fixed income.

Skandia gives multi-managers mandates

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
... made earlier this year to the company's diversified multi-manager funds, which place a greater focus on alternative investments and other asset classes with a low correlation with traditional assets. Skandia also recently implemented a centralised portfolio ...

Sunsuper digs deeper into alternatives

... investments. Meanwhile, former AMP Capital Investors investment manager Bruce Tomlinson will research alternative investments. While at AMP, he was responsible for AMP insurance funds and was a founding director and past president of the CFA Society ...

BT appoints new CFO and replaces multi-strategies head

... and will be responsible for BT Financial's existing range of diversified funds, global and Australian alternative investments as well as the domestic and international sustainability funds. Prior to joining BT Financial, Swift worked at Oxhead Capital ...

Alternatives rewrite custody

The alternative investments frenzy that has swept the local market in the last two years has prompted Australia's largest custodians to go back to the drawing board and set up units specialising in reporting the exotic and not-so-exotic investment asset ...

Skandia parts ways with Mercer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... the GAPs, we have decided to adjust the long term asset allocations to incorporate a greater focus on alternative investments and other asset classes such as international property, and reduce the heavy dependence on equities and bonds.

Balanced funds tip towards alternatives

... fund run by an industry super is very different to the one five years ago. International equities and alternative investments featured highly increasing by 6 per cent and 8.1 per cent more respectively. This was at the expense of Australian fixed interest ...

Hedge and non-hedge collide

... to clone the high returns of the Yale Endowment Fund, Rogers said the industry has become more open to alternative investments making up a huge proportion of their portfolio. In the past, a typical portfolio may be 60 per cent domestic equities, 30 per ...