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Gonski appointed new chair of Future Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... transparency" since its inception in 2006, and would remain as the honorary chair of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds until 2013. Along with Gonski Steven Harker was appointed to the Future Fund board for a five year term, replacing ...

Australia doesn't need a SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
A new report by the Centre for Independent Studies says the Future Fund, Australia's de facto sovereign wealth fund, far from being a fiscally responsible way to rebalance intergenerational equity, is economically flawed. The reasoning behind the fund ...

Surging institutional interest in frontier markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... research for Barra. "The investors who decided to go early into the emerging markets were big pension plans, or sovereign wealth funds; investors with a very long horizon," said Nielsen, who believes the markets can be a good option for those institutions ...

Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... agreed to leverage this rescue fund to a,-1 tril from a,-440 bil. To do this, they intend to tap the IMF and/or sovereign wealth funds and/or the BRICs. French head Sarkozy is reportedly already in negotiations with China - the country with loose change ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... up 0.16 per cent, or 3.73 points, to 2,348.52. Hong Kong and Shanghai were given a lift after one of China's sovereign wealth funds bought stakes in the mainland's four biggest lenders. Hong Kong and Shanghai soared in early trade, boosted by China's ...

QIC eyes Asian mandates through new ambassador

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Addis said that QIC is currently managing around $500 million of Asian mandates and is hopeful that interest from sovereign wealth and other large institutional investors will lead to further inflows. "The feedback we've received from investors in Asia ...

PM Gillard: super to support economic stability

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... international seas, super is an anchor," said Gillard, adding that she believes super is Australia's trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund with market benefits. To continue this growth, Gillard said the introduction of the 12% Superannuation Guarantee ...

Vanguard appoints senior portfolio manager, fixed income

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... portfolio manager for an inflation-linked bond portfolio at GIC Asset Management, a subsidiary of Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. She also worked as a director of fixed income research at Barclays Capital, where she developed the firm's US inflation-linked ...

Future Fund posts higher returns, chairman warns of volatility

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... David Murray has warned that the new global debt crisis could take 20 years to resolve. The world's 13th largest sovereign wealth fund posted a 12.4% return for the year to June, 2011 excluding Telstra. It was an increase of 1.8% over its ex-Telstra ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... measures soon. And Hong Kong was hit by a sell-off in Bank of China and China Construction Bank after Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek said it was offloading some of its stakes in the lenders. In other markets, Singapore fell 0.48 per cent, Taipei ...