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Aussie investment gurus delve into alternatives

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... investment professionals from superannuation funds, pension funds, investment consultants, family offices, insurers, sovereign wealth funds and financial advisory services.

Industry fund awards mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... proposal process. The fund will split them across its fixed income and alternatives allocations. It will hold mostly sovereign debt issued by emerging market countries that is denominated in US dollars. The emerging market debt mandates follow the fund's ...

Former Goldman Sachs exec charged over $62m bribery

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... Former Goldman Sachs managing director Tim Leissner has been charged with bribery in relation to the high profile 1MDB sovereign wealth scandal. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has brought charges against Leissner for allegedly engaging in ...

Perpetual Private awards bond mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
A $68 billion global manager has received a sovereign bond mandate from Perpetual Private in a move that will also see its solutions included in model portfolios. Colchester Global Investors won the mandate, which sees an undisclosed amount invested ...

US reaches $1bn settlement over 1MDB scam

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... acquired by Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, and his family. Jho Low allegedly misappropriated funds from Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and laundered that money through the US, Switzerland, Singapore and Luxembourg. ...

AMP Capital boosts Asia presence after record raise

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... in Asia than in Australia," Keary said. He said investors in the fund are pension funds, insurance companies and some sovereign wealth funds. "That's the ultimate, from my perspective, managing money on behalf of a country is a very big responsibility," ...

Future Fund returns 1.9% for the quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
Australia's sovereign wealth fund returned 1.9% in the three months to September, taking its ten-year return from 10.4% per annum at end of last quarter to 10%. The fund's assets under management grew by $3.1 billion in the quarter. Asset allocation ...

How much Future Fund spends in fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
Australia's sovereign wealth fund returned a stellar 11.5% in the year to June, but how much did it spend on fees? In its annual report published this week, the Future Fund reported it had a "direct ratio cost" of 0.203% and "look-through costs" ...

Fixed income investors spooked by global politics: Fitch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
... likely issuance in the next 12 months; 88% of 4Q19 survey investors expect sustainable bond issuance to increase, with sovereign bonds the next highest at 56%." "Overall, investors believe issuance is more likely to increase than decrease across all ...

Future Fund chief most influential public investor

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... not-for-profit investing, which also featured nine superannuation fund executives. Public Investor 100, compiled annually by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute (SWFI) ranks executives at world's largest sovereign funds, pensions, endowments, foundations ...