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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 ...

Goodman makes play for $1.2 billion ING REIT

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Goodman Group, along with "three major pension and sovereign wealth funds", has made a move for the ING Industrial Fund, it was revealed this morning. In a statement to the ASX, ING said it had received a "highly conditional" proposal from the consortium ...

Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super join top 300

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Fifteen of the world's top 300 pension and sovereign wealth funds are domiciled in Australia, according to a new report. That represents an increase of three on last year, with Super SA, GESB, and Telstra Super joining the global elite. The Future Fund ...

Alaska SWF beats target return by 2pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... June, 2 per cent higher than its target return due to its non-government bond and US stock investments. The sovereign wealth fund (SWF) returned 11.8 per cent for the financial year to record a $36 billion closing balance. Only one of the fund's asset ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
Europhobe. Dictionary.com defines this as "a person who dislikes Europe, its culture, and Europeans," to which we may now add, the euro. Yes Virginia, it seems most of us are turning Europhobes now. Greece gave euros a bad smell and now financial markets ...

China SWF signs resources JV in Canada

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is investing more than $800 million as part of a joint venture to assist in the production of resource assets in Canada. The China Investment Corporation (CIC) formed a joint venture with Penn West Energy Trust to ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... profits' tax, a less controversial solution may be putting mining royalties directly into an Australian sovereign wealth fund. Speaking on the ABC TV discussion program Q&A this week, Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers' Union and ...

Sovereign fund takes shine to platinum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... Platinum Mine, which is in production, according to a company statement. Temasek Holdings is a Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund (SWF) with more than $185 billion invested in its portfolio. APG is a subsidiary of the ABP's subsidiary Stichting Pensioenfonds ...

Credit Suisse adds to transition team

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Credit Suisse has appointed Tom Wyse to the firm's pension strategies and transition management division. Wyse joins Credit Suisse from Deutsche Bank's portfolio trading and transition management team in Sydney, where he was involved with local super ...

Temasek invests $50m in renewable fuels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
Singapore sovereign wealth fund (SWF), Temasek Holdings, has invested $50 million in Californian-based renewable chemicals and fuel start-up company, Amyris Biotechnologies. The company will use the funds to support commercial plant design and construction ...