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Colchester Global Investors hires local distribution head

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
Global sovereign bond manager Colchester Global Investors has appointed a head of distribution for Australia. Angela MacPherson will be responsible for introducing Colchester's Global Government Bond Fund to the Australian intermediary market place ...

NZ Super announces merger mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... long-term, growth-oriented fund." "The NZ Super Fund, which was named by JP Morgan in 2015 as the world's best-performing sovereign wealth fund, is a world-class organization." The NZ Super Fund had about NZ$28.3 billion ($26.2 billion) in funds under ...

International pension funds buy London City airport

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), Borealis, AIMCo and Wren House, an infrastructure investment vehicle owned by the sovereign wealth fund of Kuwait, are understood to have struck a deal to buy London's smallest airport from private equity giant ...

Global market slide hits NZ Super Fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... Super Fund has released its performance report for January 2016, revealing a negative 3.57% return. The $28 billion sovereign wealth fund attributed this return to its weighting to growth assets - in particular its 65% allocation to international equities ...

Former QIC multi-asset head departs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... recently was focused on strategic investment advice with the Queensland government and relationships across the global sovereign wealth fund and public fund communities. QIC chief executive Damien Frawley said Ryder had made a significant contribution ...

QIC purchases New York shopping centre

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... has about $78.8 billion in funds under management and about 90 global clients including governments, pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and insurers.

Future Fund puts in another strong year

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... billion from the initial investment of $60.5 billion seeded by the government in 2006. In a portfolio update briefing, the sovereign wealth fund said it has been paring back its exposure to equity market risk over the last 12 months, falling from a total ...

S&P launches long-term sustainability index

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... (given the objective of the index), there has been particular interest from large long-term institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds. New Zealand Superannuation Fund chief executive Adrian Orr commented on the launch, saying that "Traditional ...

Future Fund awarded sovereign investor of 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
Australia's $118 billion sovereign wealth fund has been recognised for its restrained decision not to increase risk to chase returns in 2015, collecting sovereign investor of the year at the 2016 Central Banking Awards. Managing director of the Future ...

Venture capital is back in vogue

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... funds growing recently including the Pacific Equity Partners Fund IV. And there's also renewed appetite for foreign sovereign wealth funds to invest in domestic private equity as well as our own Future Fund that increase its allocation to private equity ...