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US instos ramp up alts to 22pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Top US institutional investors are expected to allocate more than 22 per cent of their overall portfolios to alternative assets in two years, well above their historic average of single digit allocation, a new survey found. JPMorgan Asset Management's ...

Bennelong's new arm champions boutiques

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... equities, the new group will offer two funds - the ASX300 Australian Core and Concentrated Equity strategies - to both the insto and retail market. Cuddy and East, principals of the new arm, will oversee the funds' operations. Looking forward, Alison ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) has come a long way since it first opened its doors to the Aussie insto market over a year ago. Today the fund manager is aiming to get into platforms and aim for bigger mandates. Richard Borysiewicz, country ...

HSBC opens wholesale wealth mgmt Down Under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... capabilities into the local market, distributing HSBC Global Asset Management products and HSBC Alternative Investments to insto clients and wholesale platforms. "This is strategically important for the HSBC Group because Australia is a net exporter ...

Life settlements open to Aussie investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... unconventional asset class - but an Australian fund manager claims the sector poses a fresh set of opportunities for local insto investors. Investing in life settlements, particularly in the US, involves buying out life insurance policies and according ...

Mums-and-dads want investing made simple

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... institutional investors in the US has found there is still a great divide between how mums-and-dads invest as opposed to their insto counterparts. The findings were from a University of Queensland Business School study conducted since 2005 and surveyed ...

Perennial boosts insto sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
Boutique investment firm Perennial Investment Partners has appointed former Invesco portfolio manager Matthew Cahill as institutional sales manager. Prior to this position, Cahill worked at Invesco as portfolio manager in the economics, balanced and ...

Instos rushing to infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Infrastructure has traditionally hovered at the outskirts of mainstream asset classes - but industry players are now putting more money into the sector as investors seek a safe haven from poor returns. According to RARE Infrastructure, institutional ...

Principal Global expands insto sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
Principal Global Investors (Australia) has appointed Cameron Sinclair to director of institutional sales. Sinclair previously held a number of senior institutional sales management roles at ING Investment Management and, prior to that, worked in institutional ...

UK instos back climate change fundie

Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), UK's second largest pension fund, is joining three other institutional investors in investing more than $160 million in Climate Change Capital Group. The USS together with Alliance Trust, SNS REAAL N.V., and ...