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Market Wrap - morning

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... In companies news, JP Morgan and Fujitsu Australia are due to release the Australian Mortgage Industry Report. And Future Fund chairman David Murray is listed to speak at a business lunch in Melbourne. Also, ANZ Banking Group Ltd chief operating officer ...

Investors plough $7bn to commercial property

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... Brookfield Properties Corporation and the $1.4 billion sale of the ING Retail Property Fund to Lend Lease and the Future Fund.

Van Eyk strengthens investment team

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... Nigel Wilkin-Smith, head of strategic research at van Eyk, leaving the research house after several years to join the Future Fund's strategy team in May. Meanwhile, Nigel Douglas, former head of research at van Eyk, left his post to take up a role at ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... said they would like some of the $12 billion it will raise in its first two years diverted into a sovereign fund. The Future Fund as a specific purpose fiscal fund with a strong bias towards international assets would not fulfil this role. The risk for ...

RARE Infra wins $1.4bn in mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... Infrastructure has attracted $1.4 billion in investment mandates in nine months including one from the $67 billion Future Fund. The global listed infrastructure fund manager has gained a number of institutional clients from Australia, Hong Kong, Canada ...

Future Fund chair attacks RSPT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... intervention into the political war around the government's mining tax proposal, the chairman of the public sector Future Fund said the tax should be re-designed or scrapped. David Murray, Future Fund chairman, told Business Spectator magazine last week ...

Van Eyk head of strategic research joins Future Fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... Nigel Wilkin-Smith, head of strategic research at van Eyk, has left the research house after several years to join the Future Fund's strategy team - the second senior staff to leave the firm in less than a year. Wilkin-Smith said it was a difficult decision ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... "A national sovereign wealth fund is a good idea, and we've started the building blocks of that, I think, with the future fund under the previous government and certainly I think there's a lot more we can do there," he said. Asked by compere Tony Jones ...

Future Fund tops up alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The $66 billion Future Fund has grown its property, alternatives and infrastructure portfolios in the quarter to March - when it returned 2.8 per cent (ex-Telstra). According to a 31 March portfolio update, the fund increased its property exposure from ...

Future Fund on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
From analysts to investment directors, the $66 billion Future Fund is looking to hire new executives to join its private markets, strategy and equities teams. The Future Fund is advertising for an investment director, property for its private markets ...