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Market volatility making boomers nervous

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Baby boomers and their advisers are becoming increasing concerned about the effect of market volatility on traditional investments, according to a MetLife poll. MetLife's Market Volatility Poll, conducted in February of this year, included 520 financial ...

Wingate profits from Everest stake

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... new funds and high levels of management remuneration were called into question when it was found that the alternative investment managers funds under management dropped from $2.4 billion at September 30, 2008 to $420 million by end of March 2010. Meltzer ...

Future Fund climbs sovereign league tables

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... 13th largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, moving up from 15th place according to new figures from alternative investment research firm Preqin. The report compares the world's sovereign wealth funds in US dollar terms and valued the Future Fund ...

ASIC slaps seven-year ban on planner

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... misleading, false or deceptive. CFP has already established a major client compensation program, calculating the alternative investment positions clients would currently hold if they had received appropriate advice and not followed Nguyen suggestions. ...

Mystery surrounds sovereign fund billions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... recent years. The fund controls an estimated $70 billion in total assets. Clare Bowden, an analyst from the alternative investment research firm, wrote a sovereign wealth fund overview stating other countries in turmoil also have significant sovereign ...

FRM attracts $25m inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... Commodity Trading Advisers (CTAs) that specialise in managed futures. A managed futures account is a type of alternative investment, that takes both long and short positions mainly using futures contracts over indices and commodities. This approach is ...

PE-Backed IPO exits top $10bn in 2011 YTD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Global private equity IPO exits hit $39 billion last year and is already $10 billion year to date 2011. Preqin, a research firm that specialises in the alternative investments sector, has just released a survey showing that there were 145 IPO exits ...

Statewide cuts staff, boost sales

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
The $2 billion-plus Statewide Super has reduced staff members by 20 per cent in the last year, and is ramping up its sales force to target employers as part of the fund's growth strategy for next year. A little over a year since John O'Flaherty became ...

Ireland looks to sovereign annuities

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
As part of a broader effort to resolve its fiscal crisis, Ireland unveiled plans to develop a market for sovereign annuities earlier this week, which could be used by under-funded Irish pension funds to meet their defined benefit liabilities. After ...

Prime Super restructures equities portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
The $1 billion-plus Prime Super has overhauled its $570 million equities portfolio and withdrew mandates with State Street, BlackRock and BGI, while the fund looks for alternative assets to add to its investments. Lachlan Baird, chief executive of Prime ...