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More good news for US housing market

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... positive economic indicators emerging from the US economy was the decision by the Norway's US$660 billion sovereign wealth fund - the worlds largest - to invest US$11 billion within the US real estate market. Mandated by the finance minter to put 5% ...

Water an alternative with yield

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... Lourey. International institutional investors such as Hassad Foods, the agricultural investment arm of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund currently invest in the Australian water market at far higher rates than domestic funds. While Tyndall AM remains impartial ...

Lest we forget Lehman: Omgeo

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... hedge funds that previously have been reluctant to automate in the middle and back office. "Historically a sovereign wealth fund or family office or wherever the money was coming from would do its due diligence on a hedge fund purely on an investment ...

Cash in on overseas asset offload

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
Australian pension funds are ahead of the curve with their allocations to real assets, but could further exploit opportunities overseas. Australian super funds currently invest an average 17% of their total portfolio in real assets, although in reality ...

Barclays announces new CEO amid new investigation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... announcement the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had launched an investigation into a 2008 deal with Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. Jenkins has been brought in to replace Bob Diamond, who resigned last month amid the scandal over rigging Libor and Euribor ...

ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... product, it's uniquely lethal and addictive." The Greens have meanwhile argued that the Future Fund quasi sovereign wealth fund should follow suite, especially given that they have an estimated $250 million or 0.3% of their portfolio invested in tobacco ...

Unique investment opportunity in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Olam International (a Singaporean food company) and Hassad Foods (the agricultural investment arm of the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar). The investment of the Chinese-owned Shenhua Coal in NSW's Hunter Valley will also come with an attendant need to ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... quality European infrastructure projects among pension funds in the current macro-environment. "The Chinese sovereign wealth fund just bought a stake in a French infrastructure company and we're seeing a lot of activity by Asian investors in various ...

SWFs to reach $30tr in 20 years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
Sovereign wealth funds (SWF) have grown to US$5 trillion but still account for just 6% of world funds under management, according to new research from Rainmaker. The SWF sector has grown 10% pa over the past four years and is on its way to reaching ...

SWFs jump 16% to $4.62tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
Global sovereign wealth fund assets jumped 16% in the past 12 months to $4.62 trillion, with private equity assets in North America attracting special interest, reveals new research. According to the alternative investments research group Preqin, 57% ...