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Former FPA chair to leave Hood Sweeney

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... Sweeney throughout the remainder of 2015 to ensure a smooth transition while at the same time undertaking further study at Harvard Business School. Hood Sweeney's new managing director will be Chris Stewart, who joined the company in 2011 as head of ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... IMF's 6.3% prediction by the end of the decade. The Economist cited a working paper by Lant Pritchett and Larry Summers of Harvard University, titled "Asiaphoria meets regression to the mean" which contends just that... that China's growth rate would ...

Harvard receives record-breaking donation

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014

PIMCO names new head of Asia Pacific

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... an associate at Jupiter Partners, a private equity firm. He has 17 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

NZ Super sells forestry stake to iwi group

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Canadian pension fund, Public Sector Pension Investment Board at 30%, and an affiliate of the President and Fellows of Harvard College at 28.75%. The group of iwi have called themselves the Kakano Investment Limited Partnership (Kakano), and comprise ...

Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... comprising 840 funds. The 10 biggest endowment funds represent 35% of the market. The biggest endowment funds were found to be Harvard University with US$30.4 billion in assets, followed by Yale University with US$19.3 billion, University of Texas System ...

NZ Super makes key hires following Datacom investment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... senior roles with organisations including: EDS, National Australia Bank, Westpac, IBM and Ansett. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. For the last three and a half years, Sutton was head of direct investment ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... appetite quantitatively by analyzing the actual buying and selling patterns of institutional investors. It was developed by Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot and Paul O'Connell of State Street Associates. The index tracks changes in investor ...

Aus PE funds on the right side of supply & demand

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... said. Recent private equity mandates awarded in the United States show that investors are demanding more influence, said Harvard investment banking professor Josh Lerner. Investment managers are realising that they can't rely on high fees and great "deal ...