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Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Global institutional investors are unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities. That's according to new investor behaviour research by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which conducted the research in January ...

QIC extends partnership with Northern Trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Australian institutional fund manager QIC recently appointed Northern Trust to provide global custody, fund accounting, taxation and associated services for its range of Australian fund products. The appointment follows Northern Trust's commitment to ...

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Assets under management increased for the majority of sovereign wealth funds in 2014 despite steadily declining oil and commodity prices, according to research by Preqin. This is significant, Preqin argues, because many sovereign wealth funds rely on ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... competing for a comparatively small pool of assets, prices have sky-rocketed. The managing director of the sovereign wealth fund referenced an opinion piece in the AFR which said the IFM Global Infrastructure Fund's winning bid of $7.45 billion to purchase ...

QIC executive departs for Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
QIC's head of investment performance and risk has left the company to manage a sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East. Having joined QIC in 2008 as head of investment compliance and risk management, Sam O'Sullivan moved to his previous role in 2012. ...

Future Fund alternatives head joins Hedge Fund Standards Board

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
Future Fund's head of debt and alternatives David George has joined the board of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB). The HFSB said the appointment emphasises the important role of sovereign wealth funds in promoting better practices in the hedge ...

Alternatives sector shaped by regulation, customer demand

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
The alternatives sector is transforming due to regulatory pressures and the needs of a growing institutional customer-base, according to Lonsec's recently published Alternatives Sector Review. Lonsec's research covered 33 investment products, including ...

MSCI makes key hire to lead local ETF charge

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
Global index provider MSCI has hired ETF Consulting managing director Tim Bradbury to launch the company's ETF business in Australia. As vice president of ETF client coverage, Bradbury will be responsible for driving visibility, awareness and usage ...

Future Fund smashes its performance target in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... and alternative assets. According to the Future Fund's latest portfolio update, the Australian de facto sovereign wealth fund earned 13.2% for the 12 months to end December compared to the 8.3% delivered by the SelectingSuper Workplace default super ...

NZ Super and Infratil buy RetireAustralia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2015
... has joined forces with Infratil to buy major Australian aged care facility operator RetireAustralia. The sovereign wealth fund and the asset manager will take 50% each after entering into a sale and purchase agreement worth $640.2 million. The two entities ...