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Blue Sky names investment manager

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has named Lachlan McMurdo as an investment manager in its private equity division. McMurdo joins Blue Sky from Bain & Company's private equity group where he worked as a consultant for three years. In his new role, he ...

Cash in on overseas asset offload

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
Australian pension funds are ahead of the curve with their allocations to real assets, but could further exploit opportunities overseas. Australian super funds currently invest an average 17% of their total portfolio in real assets, although in reality ...

Buying volatility a viable alternative

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... volatility, said Chris Thompson, Portfolio Manager, Advance Asset Management. Thompson said that a lot of alternative investment strategies involve "going long" on volatility, with one way to achieve this buying futures on the exchange - which measures ...

Farm land a viable alternative

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
Farm land as an alternative investment can be a good way to diversify portfolios, said Nicole Connolly, director of Alternative Investments, Russell Investments Australasia. It is an investment that is exposed to favorable secular drivers, but requires ...

Market shocks likely: Advance Asset Management

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... Senator, and chairman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Advance Asset Management has developed its alternative investment strategy with these themes in mind, avoiding correlation to equities markets, said Patrick Farrell, head of Advance ...

Instreet launches alternative

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... has launched the Instreet Link Alternative Manager DPA, a structured product that invests in a range of alternative investment strategies, actively managed by three global investment managers. The new product is part of Instreet's Link Series that seeks ...

Alternatives need new thinking: QIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
Too many investors have been trying to "have their cake and eat it too" by attempting to use alternatives to chase higher returns and gain diversification in down markets, according to one manager. "The more you're going for those juicy returns, the ...

Alternatives beyond reach for in-house

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... of due diligence is very high. At my last job we had 33 people continually doing due-diligence on those [alternative investment] funds," said Peter Urbani, former chief investment officer at Infiniti Capital. The comments come on the heels of a recent ...

AIMA helping super funds plan HF moves

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
The Alternative Investment Management Association will be working with local super funds on scenario analyses for moving more funds to suitable Australian alternative managers. Recent data from administrator GlobeOp showed that in June hedge funds globally ...

State Street acquires GS hedge fund admin services

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... all types and sizes," said George Sullivan, executive vice president and global head of State Street's Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) team. "We look forward to continuing to serve the hedge fund community, including many GSAS clients, through ...