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Schroders appoints head of private debt

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... assets (reporting directly to group chief executive Peter Harrison) last year. Schroders' private assets and alternatives business manages $81 billion across private equity, securitised credit, infrastructure finance, insurance-linked securities ...

Advisers bolt to cash, gold

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... COVID-19." "Silver has traditionally followed gold closely and may be set for market interest as investors look for alternatives to gold," he said. ETFs Physical Silver has returned 53.3% this year to date followed by BetaShares Global Gold Miners at ...

Franklin Templeton completes acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... expanded the firm's multi-asset solution capabilities as well as combining leadership in core fixed income, equities and alternatives. Franklin Templeton said no changes are planned for Legg Mason's differentiated investment strategies, which it said ...

Sovereign fund withdraws bid for Newcastle United

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... investment no longer commercially viable. To that end, we feel a responsibility to the fans to explain the lack of alternatives from an investment perspective. "As an autonomous and purely commercial investor, our focus was on building long-term value ...

WAM makes alternatives play

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Geoff Wilson's $3 billion Wilson Asset Management has acquired the management rights for embattled alternatives investment company Blue Sky. On May 20 last year, Blue Sky Alternative Investments announced it had been forced into receivership, with Oaktree ...

QIC appoints general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... to the investment director, state investments. Zoe McHugh was previously a portfolio manager strategy and liquid alternatives the industry fund, where she built the liquid alternatives program, helped develop the active asset allocation and currency ...

Research slams ADL definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... removal of the ADL definition from policies. A spokesperson for TAL said it is working with super funds to develop alternatives to ADLs. "In 2018 TAL worked with Cbus to develop its 'Everyday Working Activities' definition which has an 86% claims acceptance ...

Macquarie tops mandate league tables

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... the most mandates in the period were Macquarie, IFM Investors, HR Morrison, Ardea and Wellington. By asset classes, alternatives took a 51% slice of all mandates appointed in the period, followed by equities (28%). Bond and cash mandates were 12% of ...

Hostplus bumps cash allocation up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... 5%. The change to the cash allocation was effective from 19 June 2020, when the fund also reduced its allocation to alternatives from 8% to 5% and equities from 44% to 42% in the balanced option. At the start of the new financial year, Hostplus updated ...

Model portfolio growth up 70%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... in equities asset sectors, 49% in diversified offerings and 10% in other asset classes such as property, bonds and alternatives.