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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 ...

Cash in on overseas asset offload

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... reason why." Natural buyers for the debt are few, and "the banks dominated that space for so long, super funds and sovereign wealth funds never had a chance to explore it as an option." Rather than simply buying off the balance sheet, opportunities also ...

Barclays announces new CEO amid new investigation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... after the 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 ...

ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... legal 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 ...

Unique investment opportunity in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... water as 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 ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... for 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% ...

SWFs have liabilities to manage too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
The $5 trillion sovereign wealth fund sector is poorly served by the investment management industry which doesn't understand their risk management requirements, claims a just released joint study by the EDHEC Risk Institute and Deutsche Bank. The misunderstanding ...