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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 ...

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 ...