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FFMA is on track to break $100bn barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... pecentage points to the cost structure of a typical super fund. Reflecting the Future Fund operating as a de facto sovereign wealth fund, combined with imputation credits being no use to it, only 12% of its funds under management (FUM) is invested into ...

Asset diversification gathers momentum

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... according to global data from Towers Watson. The data shows that in 2012 its clients - which include pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies - allocated 70% more assets to hedge fund and private market strategies than in 2010, reaching ...

KiwiSaver up 36% to A$12.2bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... considered as a mild supplement to the retirement savings needs of New Zealanders. Combined with NZ's A$15.8 billion sovereign wealth fund New Zealand Super Fund and other super assets, NZ's entire superannuation system is estimated to hold only A$56 ...

EM fund manager Esemplia explains turnaround plans

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... operational changes they had made, several others, which include both Australian superannuation funds and overseas sovereign wealth funds, have now elected to maintain their relationships with the group, he said. While in Australia, representatives from ...

Structural shifts reposition EMs as less risky investments

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... a growing middle class, robust fiscal and monetary policies and the stability of local institutions - such as sovereign wealth and pension funds that are investing in projects in their home regions, including infrastructure - are all factors driving ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... risk of climate change. "The first survey of the world's 1,000 largest retirement funds, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds' management of climate risk paints a disturbing overall picture of greenwash (sic) and reckless mismanagement but ...

NZ Super Fund named world's most innovative

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... Superannuation Fund has been named the world's most innovative sovereign fund. Last night, the Fund won the prestigious Sovereign Wealth Fund category in the 2012 aiCIO Industry Innovation Awards in New York. The other finalists were the Australian Future ...

More good news for US housing market

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... of 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 ...

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
... to 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 ...