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Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... a bailout soon. And don't expect China to be rushing to buy stakes into it anytime soon. According to Al Jazeera, "China's SWF doesn't exist to make charitable contributions or do politics, says its head Jin Liqun. The purpose of the fund is to make ...

Super acting like a SWF: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
Superannuation in Australia is acting like a sovereign wealth fund and is on track to boost savings each year by three per cent of GDP. In a major speech last week on Compulsory Superannuation and National Saving, Treasury researchers David Gruen and ...

Alaska SWF beats target return by 2pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... per cent higher than its target return due to its non-government bond and US stock investments. The sovereign wealth fund (SWF) returned 11.8 per cent for the financial year to record a $36 billion closing balance. Only one of the fund's asset classes ...

Alaskan SWF targets private equity

FUND RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
The Alaska Permanent Fund is set to approve a $700 million investment to private equity assets for the next financial year. The fund's board of trustees is also expected to commit a further $290 million to private equity investments for the remainder ...

China SWF signs resources JV in Canada

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is investing more than $800 million as part of a joint venture to assist in the production of resource assets in Canada. The China Investment Corporation (CIC) formed a joint venture with Penn West Energy Trust to ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... trustee of the $30 billion industry fund Australian Super, said an option we should explore is putting the royalties into a SWF. "A national sovereign wealth fund is a good idea, and we've started the building blocks of that, I think, with the future ...

Sovereign fund takes shine to platinum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... Mine, which is in production, according to a company statement. Temasek Holdings is a Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund (SWF) with more than $185 billion invested in its portfolio. APG is a subsidiary of the ABP's subsidiary Stichting Pensioenfonds ...

Credit Suisse adds to transition team

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... be responsible for Credit Suisse's transition management business throughout Asia Pacific, focusing sovereign wealth funds (SWF) and super and pension funds.

Temasek invests $50m in renewable fuels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
Singapore sovereign wealth fund (SWF), Temasek Holdings, has invested $50 million in Californian-based renewable chemicals and fuel start-up company, Amyris Biotechnologies. The company will use the funds to support commercial plant design and construction ...

BNY hires insto BDM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... firm, Phillips worked at RiskMetrics Group in Singapore as director, Asia Pacific, wherein he assisted sovereign wealth funds (SWF) and other large institutional asset managers to understand and manage risk in portfolios. Before RiskMetrics he worked ...