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Future Fund names new managing director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... managing director. "He has played a pivotal role in establishing the Fund, building its credibility and delivering strong returns for Australia. The Board is confident that he and his team will build on this and strengthen the Fund's reputation as a ...

DST's Anova named best middle office solution

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... forefront in meeting middle office challenges for investment management companies striving to deliver above market investment returns to their clients." The market for businesses like DST has opened up in the last couple of years with the huge increase ...

Abbott eyes Canadian pension money

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... to invest overseas where there are stable, long-term investment opportunities with the reasonable confidence of secure returns and I believe that there are infrastructure investments in Australia now. "There will be more infrastructure investments in ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... long-term alpha generation so super funds are backing it not just to feel good but to see real outcomes on shareholder returns. There is one blight to the story: last year there were 4 more research nominated than this year. The committee behind ESG ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... from the notion of economic health." Kabiller stressed that the hedge funds only offered the possibility of uncorrelated returns because viewed in aggregate, as many investors do; hedge funds appear to have high correlations to traditional assets and ...

IFM grows infra debt team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... appointment: "Investors have increasingly turned to infrastructure debt as a defensive allocation, given the low real returns from conventional sovereign bonds. Over the past two years, we have made great strides building specialist resources to offer ...

Dynamic approach key to low volatility investing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... of the strategy have warned. Low volatility equity investing has risen in popularity in the wake of the GFC. With lower returns across asset classes, institutional investors are making use of lower volatility equity portfolios to mitigate against the ...

Majority of Australians say 'no' to fossil fuel investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... Australia. However, the report also found that Australians do not like the idea of divesting from fossil fuels if it harms returns. Three in five respondents said they would be likely to switch banks or super funds that did not invest in or finance the ...

AusSuper grants London property mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... The UK office market - central London in particular - sits well with our investment approach. "It has a record of strong returns over the long term, transparency, good liquidity and a positive overall economic outlook, among a range of attributes. In ...

Industry stalwart Tucker takes stake in Westoz

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... significantly increased the attractiveness of LIC structures. Westoz has a strong track record of generating investment returns and fully A ranked dividends for LIC shareholders."