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QIC changes infrastructure tact

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Indiscriminate and forced selling of infrastructure debt has QIC positioning itself to pounce on discounted opportunities in the infrastructure debt market. QIC, which has over $70 billion in funds under management, is slightly shifting its focus on ...

Intech taps ex-BT head of quant and two QIC staff

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... investment team. Matthew Tuxford has over eight years experience in the financial services industry and was previously at QIC (Research Analyst Implemented Equities), Towers Perrin (Financial Analyst) and Total Risk Management (Financial Analyst). Meanwhile ...

Pengana Global Volatility gains 24pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... form month-on-month since the Global Volatility strategy was launched in Australia last November. Among its early clients is QIC, which invested more than $150 million initially and then more than $100 million again in February. US-based Wilkinson, who ...

Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... Management hold the fund's debt securities mandates, while MGPA and Vanguard Investments Australia manage its property investments. QIC and Colonial First State Global Asset Management manage the $31 billion cash investments and Oaktree Capital Management ...

QIC appoints ESG manager

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
The $80 billion QIC has appointed Kate Grant as corporate ESG manager. Grant will be in charge of the development, implementation, measurement and reporting of QIC's environmental, social and governance integration at an organisation-wide level. "We ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
Leading fund manager QIC has decided to label "commodities" as a separate class in its portfolios after it observed that traditionally uncorrelated markets such as fixed income and equities are starting to behave like each other. The QIC Red Paper found ...

QIC favours endowment funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
The $80 billion QIC has poured $570 million into US endowment-style fund manager Global Endowment Fund - marking QIC's continued interest in the sector. GEM, led by ex-Duke Endowment CIO Stephanie Lynch and former Duke University Management chief executive ...

QIC fixed interest bucks trend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
Traditional absolute return funds often rely on their ability to manage physical securities - but the QIC Global Fixed Interest Fund is going against mainstream thinking by exploiting opportunities with no correlation to major asset classes. QIC, which ...

UN PRI enlists 400 firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... UN PRI participation rates in the world with over 51 signatories, including BT Financial Group, HESTA Super, VisionSuper, QIC, CARE Super, AMP Capital Investors and Victorian Funds Management Corporation. Last month, more than 200 signatories attended ...

BlackRock absorbs Impact

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... allows fund managers to avoid 'unintended risks' and integrate numerous data feeds into one. To date, clients include BT, QIC, Challenger, AMP, Schroders, Fidelity and BlackRock, which is one of its oldest clients. As part of the acquisition, Impact ...