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Blue Sky delivers 68% profit as alternatives rally

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... traditional investment strategies," managing director Mark Sowerby said. "Every single one of our divisions has attracted institutional capital now, which is a great demonstration of trust, and a natural evolution as our business matures." Blue Sky has ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... internationalisation of its currency and economy.A Australia now has access to all three. The Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) scheme allows Chinese investors to trade offshore via foreign fund managers. The deal allows Australian fund ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... people banging on their door to get in that are willing to take whatever it is." The fact that conversations with institutional investors are mostly focused on fees -as opposed to "how they make their money or how they allocate and manage risk"- means ...

Below benchmark performance hurts Platinum

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... He acknowledged that "we have seen reasonable flows from private investors though this was partly offset by some institutional accounts redeeming investments because of a desire to change their asset mix." Platinum's yearly report also offers a detailed ...

Senior Perpetual Investments manager to retire

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... investment officer for equities at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, as well as global chief investment officer, head of institutional investment and head of fixed income at Fidelity Investments International. His career began in the 1990s with Schroders ...

William Blair earns Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... of maintaining a conservative approach to capacity management." William Blair head of Australian and New Zealand institutional distribution, Alex Francois said: "We believe emerging markets continue to be an area that in the medium to long term will ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... Pacific, an arm of the investment management giant set up about 30 years ago to create asset allocation solutions for institutional investors. The ISG mainly serves pension funds and insurance companies, and it manages about US$220 billion ($300 billion) ...

Super funds hunting further afield for overseas assets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... property specialist TH Real Estate has identified the cities as some of the most attractive for in the region for institutional investment and is now helping Australian superannuation funds to get in on the act. The cities scored well in TH Real Estate's ...

Global bond fund gets first Aussie investor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... returns and low correlation with traditional bond and equity indices." The strategy has been offered to Australian institutional investors since 2009, and wholesale investors since 2014.

Insto investor acquires $236.6m US property

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
QIC has bought a $236.6 million (US$174.4 million) shopping centre on behalf of a major Australian institutional investor. The acquisition represents QIC's first 100% owned US property and it follows the investor's two-year US real estate joint venture ...