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VGI chief executive resigns amid takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... Investments (VG8). Subject to shareholder approval, VGI will changes its ticker code and be renamed. Regal is an alternatives investment manager founded in 2004, offering institutional investors and family offices hedge fund, private market, and real ...

Frontier recruits two senior consultants

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
... Post, ANZ, and Westpac. Also joining Frontier this month is Michiel Swaak, who works as a senior consultant in the alternatives and derivatives research team. Swaak was most recently a director of quantitative finance solutions at Deloitte and worked ...

Fidelity hires from Mercer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
... held positions in the external equities team at Aware Super, and as a portfolio manager managing global equities and alternatives portfolios at BT and Advance. He will report to Tim Connolly, head of Fidelity's institutional business. "Mark has extensive ...

New client group lead at AXA IM

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
AXA IM Alts appointed a new client group lead as the alternatives fund manager ramps up its regional presence. Sandra Lee steps into the newly created role of head of client group for Asia. Lee most recently ran her own investment consultancy that advises ...

Investors should embrace alternatives: J.P. Morgan

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... investments to embrace megatrends playing out across alternative asset classes. J.P. Morgan has published the 2022 Alternatives Outlook which explores the investment case for alternatives amid a world of muted expected returns, historically low interest ...

Life insurers to embrace risky assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
... included Australia, found that portfolios invested 10% in equities on average, 7% in real estate and 8% in other alternatives. Insurers also held high proportions of assets in dry powder, while allocations to cash or money market funds returned 7% on ...

Investors dig deeper for alternative assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
The hunt for yield has prompted investors to turn to new asset classes within the alternatives sector, according to Preqin. Disappointing returns from traditional assets such as office, retail and industrial have also forced investors to look to other ...

Strongest quarter for BlackRock

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... billion to shareholders in 2021. "Our business is more diversified than ever before - active strategies, including alternatives, contributed over 60% of 2021 organic base fee growth. Our industry-leading iShares ETF platform remained a significant growth ...

Knight Frank releases 2022 outlook

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... drive even stronger demand for property from a wide range of capital sources throughout 2022 as investors seek out alternatives given the prospect of losses in real terms when holding cash," Burston said. Demand for the industrial sector will remain ...

State Super sets net zero targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... be focused on driving further emissions reductions in this portfolio while also progressing decarbonisation of its alternatives and real assets investments. "State Super will work closely with its Master Investment Manager and its fund managers and continue ...