Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 441 - 450 of 491 results for "Sovereign wealth fund"

Inflation fears raise appeal of alternative assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... parties this is causing institutional investors to step out and look around the market." Australia's own sovereign wealth fund, The Future Fund, has been investing in alternatives for the last few years, in line with the broad number of other sovereign ...

Mystery surrounds sovereign fund billions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
The future mandate of Libya's sovereign wealth fund is uncertain following political unrest, a new report has said. A new report from Preqin said the Libyan Investment Authority had been able to invest more freely after sanctions on the north African ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... foreign investor in Libya and a country in which the North African state has also invested billions. Libya's sovereign wealth fund and veteran ruler Moamer Kadhafi's family own stakes in Italy's biggest bank UniCredit, defence and industry giant Finmeccanica ...

Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Fund managers are casting their nets wider into the Asia Pacific region to deliver 'alpha', shunning China and India to boost their portfolio returns, a survey found. The RBC Capital Markets survey reported high levels of confidence in Asian equity ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... to be US infrastructure, said Liu Chuanzhi, head of IT group Lenova who said that the $300 billion China sovereign wealth fund discussed the possibilities with US president Obama during the recent state visit by China president Hu Jintao, reported the ...

Aust Unity sets its sights on instos

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
Australian Unity Investments is ramping up its institutional strategy this year. Martin Hession, head of property at AUI, said at a lunch last week that winning institutional mandates would be a key part of the firm's agenda this year, after having ...

SG at 12pc will help Reserve manage inflation: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... best advantage of the national revenue boost. Diverting the money into a fiscal stabilisation fund or a sovereign wealth fund may not be best answer. Instead, Keating said part of the money could be used to increase superannuation contributions more ...

Rise of Asia bonds: Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... to boost Singapore's bond market. Besides Temasek, Singapore Telecoms, Singapore Airlines, and Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah have all issued bonds this year in excess of $400 million each in size.

CalPERS deploys US$500m into ESG, OTPP buys Chunnel link

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
North American pension funds have been actively pursuing investment opportunities this week, and in typically unconventional fashion. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested $500 million into a new internally managed ...

AIA raises US$20.5bn in IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... 20 in the first two trading days following the listing. The Kuwaiti Investment Authority and CIC, China's sovereign wealth fund, were reported in overseas newspapers to be among the largest institutional investors that participated. The sale was a huge ...