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MetLife appoints head of insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
MetLife Insurance Limited appointed Richard Anderson as head of institutional business. Anderson, currently with Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), will join MetLife in October and be responsible for building on the 2007 and 2008 growth ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... coming to understand it over the course of two to three years. During that period we have had a reasonably high number of [insto] investors who were very interested and wanted to make investments in the loans," said Apostle managing director Karyn West. ...

BGIA expands insto team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
Barclays Global Investors Australia (BGIA) appointed Charmayne Connelly and Simon Brinsmead as client manager and consultant manager respectively. Connelly previously worked at Wellington Management in a similar client relationship role. Prior to this ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... management (FUM) is a small $32 million although Carter said they are soon to market the fund more aggressively to retail and insto investors. "Even if the markets are difficult right now to get positive returns out of equities, we're probably 65 to ...

AXA IM targets Aus instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
AXA Group's Paris-based asset management business is providing its expertise across European property, private equity, structured finance and fund of hedge funds to Australian institutions. Craig Hurt, AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) director of Australian ...

QIC fixed interest bucks trend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... The QIC global Fixed Interest team comprises more than 20 investment professionals. The fund is one of Australia's largest insto fund managers with more than $80 billion in funds under management.

Who plays the PE game, wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... investment portfolio, proper diversification favouring alternatives is now high on the agenda of most US funds. Top American insto investors are expected to allocate more than 22 per cent of their overall portfolios to alternative assets in two years ...

Super funds back aircraft fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... Fund, has increased its AUM to $330 million following the acquisition of a new Boeing 777-300r. The fund is Investec's first insto offering in the Australian market. "While we have been conservative in our asset and lessee selection, we are pleased that ...

Hedge funds turn insto

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... counterparts." According to the research house, US endowment funds and foundations currently account for 40 per cent of insto hedge fund capital while pension plans, which control significantly more in assets account for 50 per cent. The growing inflow ...

Dimensional wins $100m Aust Eq mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Global insto asset manager Dimensional has secured a $100 million Australian core equities mandate with Zurich Investment Management. Dimensional's Australian Core Equity strategy is designed to capture the returns from the broad Australian equities ...