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Aware Super bolsters strategy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
... that, he spent 10 years at Macquarie Investment Management. For his part, Peters has spent 20 years covering global hedge funds, most recently with Fulcrum Asset Management in London. He lands at the macro strategies team focusing on working with our ...

Family offices maintain a steady course: Goldman Sachs

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2023
... to alternative or private investments than other investors," it said. Meanwhile, the global average allocation to hedge funds is unchanged since 2021 at 6%. "However, we have seen improving sentiment around this asset class with low correlation strategies ...

Global alternatives manager lands down under

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023
... Lukas to lead the firm's push into the region. The Chicago-based alternatives asset manager - which focuses on hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, and real estate - plans to grow by targeting the deployment of Australian capital into global ...

Family offices ready to take risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2023
... increases in allocations, respondents said. They will be followed by US equities and alternative assets, including hedge funds, private equity, and private debt. "Family offices have quite rightly taken a conservative approach to risk in the past two ...

Alternatives investors await more corrections: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... Preqin's newly released Alternative assets H1 2023 report. The survey, which included Australian investors, found that hedge funds experienced their toughest year since the Global Financial Crisis, which according to Preqin's All-Strategies Hedge Fund ...

SWFs shrink for first time ever: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2023
... need to mark down their portfolios of private markets before they can undertake any major change in allocation, and hedge funds may continue to benefit from the disruption of traditional markets," it said. In terms of regions, Global SWF expected Asia ...

Apex Group acquires admin technology provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023
... PFS runs specialist accounting and administration platform PFS-PAXUS, which supports all manner of funds, including hedge funds and private equity vehicles. It has offices in Australia and Europe and is used by over 4000 individual users by more than ...

Regulator issues interim stop orders

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... Diversified Fund in producing the target market determination (TMD). The fund invests in various managed funds, including hedge funds, a fund invested in residential and commercial real estate developments and a private equity fund. The underlying investments ...

US state public pensions fragile: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2022
... has led to a trend of states and cities taking on more investment risk by shifting pension assets to private equity, hedge funds, and other alternative strategies." "One positive response to underperforming investments has been state and local pension ...

Future Fund assets drop to $194.4bn

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
... equity weight which was reduced by 7%(36-29) "That capital was deployed into property, infrastructure and also into hedge funds." He said the strongest performer was the infrastructure portfolio and the macro hedge fund portfolio which returned more ...