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Latin America: the best-kept investment secret

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... less investor understanding of the region than the broader emerging markets universe. However, with 224 million people, a PPP-adjusted GDP growth rate of 5.1% over the past 15 years and a 50% share of all Latin American trade, both private and public ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has flagged expanding the fund's internal investment team to manage more than half of its rapidly growing asset base. Australia's largest superannuation fund has previously said it is aiming to manage between ...

IFM Investors and Samsung partner for infrastructure fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
An Australian institutional investment manager is partnering with Korea-based Samsung Asset Management to form a global infrastructure debt fund. The US$480 million fund will be jointly managed by IFM Investors and Samsung Asset Management to invest ...

FIIG expands fixed income research team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Fixed income broker FIIG Securities is creating one of Australia's largest sell-side credit research teams with the appointment of two senior researchers. Joining the fixed income team is John Manning, who will take over as director - credit research ...

AustralianSuper, IFM Investors buy Ausgrid in five weeks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... a 50.4% interest in a 99-year lease of Ausgrid. IFM Investors chief executive Brett Himbury said: "This is a new kind of 'PPP' - a true Pension Public Partnership. This Pension Public Partnership makes Australian superannuation money available to build ...

AMP Capital acquires stake in desalination plant

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
... Partnerships. Funded by the AMP Capital Community Infrastructure Fund (CommIF), VDP was delivered as a public private partnership (PPP) and is the largest desalination plant in the Southern Hemisphere. VDP is a rainfall independent source of drinking ...

Global equity managers not currency selectors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... interest rate differentials between countries (Carry); and a measure of 'value' based on deviation from purchasing power parity (PPP-deviation). The study also identifies a significant return premium associated with stocks priced in undervalued currencies. ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
Another stimulus package for Japan Japan has announced a stimulus package containing a raft of infrastructure and welfare measures in yet another attempt to jolt the nation's economy back to life. The package, headlined at A$350 billion if you include ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... Canada's Aboriginal people and major contributor to economic development in Canada's northern regions. Indonesia keen to promote PPP infra Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has said he is open to relaxing regulation and adjusting Indonesian investment ...

IFM Investors appoints independent chair

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... contractors, designers, operators, lawyers, financiers and investors. Over the years Vann has been involved in most major PPP roads in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria; major PPP hospitals and correctional facilities in South Australia, Victoria ...