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Hedge funds under cost pressure from brokers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... outside of prime brokers with 13% saying they plan to seek financing from the likes of institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, custodians and other hedge funds.

Telstra Super CIO to leave fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... relationships with the Queensland government and investment opportunities, and relationships, across the global sovereign wealth fund and public fund community." Frawley said: "Jim is a well-regarded and successful investment executive and brings very ...

Sovereign wealth funds banking on Aussie innovation

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
Sovereign wealth funds are leading investment in the Australian private equity and venture capital industry, contributing 26% of new fundraising in the past financial year. Not only did overseas investors jump on Australian entrepreneurs in 2015, they ...

CalPERS sells $4.2bn in real estate assets

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... than US$100 billion worth of property. At the same time, Norges Bank Investment Management, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, released a report analysing real estate as an asset class. The fund said that "the vast majority of academic studies ...

Oil price fall forces sovereign funds to switch gears

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
Oil and gas export revenues are helping fund three quarters of sovereign wealth fund assets globally, but as oil prices remain lower, sovereign funds are expected to focus on other parts of the economy. Moody's Investors Survey research of global sovereign ...

Future Fund's morphing objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
Ambiguity around the Future Fund and whether it's a fund for public servants' super or a genuine Australian sovereign wealth fund continues to challenge the fund's leadership. Speaking in Perth yesterday, Future Fund managing director David Neal believes ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... doubled the value of original government contributions since its inception. Since its launch in May 2006, the sovereign wealth fund has added $57.3 billion in investment returns to the government's original contributions, which were valued at $60.5 billion ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... in Australia to meet with chief investment officers and analysts from the nation's leading superannuation and sovereign wealth funds. "In a bid to intelligently match projects with institutional investors, we are looking for a list of ask criteria from ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... done to "overcome them and truly be global investors." "What's the pension fund in Toronto doing? What's the sovereign wealth fund in Beijing doing? What's the Central Bank doing in Europe? They're the people you're competing against for assets," McLaughlin ...

Pengana and PanAgora strike new deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... about $53 billion across a range of strategies for over 125 institutional investors worldwide including large sovereign wealth funds as well as government and corporate pension funds. It manages about $2 billion for Australian institutional investors. ...