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Alternatives drove Permal and EnTrust marriage

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
Permal Group chief executive Omar Kodmani believes the recent merger with EnTrust Capital means the firms will become a diversified alternatives platform, not just a multi-manager hedge fund shop. In his first interview since the merger announcement ...

Norwegian fund reviews ESG approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... investment expectations on human and children's rights, water management and climate change. Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, which manages about US$804 billion, recently released its 2015 review of responsible investment which expresses expectations ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Illiquid and alternative asset strategies will only increase across the institutional investment market in 2016 according to latest reports from BlackRock and Willis Towers Watson. A BlackRock survey of more than 170 of the firm's largest institutional ...

Rainmaker goes live with new terminal upgrade

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... provider and diversified publishing group with an extensive footprint across the investment management, platform, pension fund, intermediary and service provider sectors. Page said: "We are very excited to be rolling out the latest and best generation ...

Hedge funds up 2.4% in 2015

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
Globally hedge funds were up 2.4% net of fees in 2015, according to Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) research. AIMA's research is based on the hedge funds that reported performance to HedgeFund Intelligence in 2015, accounting for ...

CalPERS chief executive retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
The largest public pension fund in the US is searching for a new chief executive after Anne Stausboll announced she will retire in June 2016. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) announced overnight that Stausboll will leave ...

Industry fund backs US toll road

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
A co-investment in a US toll road will become an industry superannuation fund's second largest infrastructure exposure after Port Botany and Port Kembla in New South Wales. Cbus has announced an investment of $140 million in the Indiana Toll Road (ITR) ...

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... shipping volume; and, Camelot Group, the UK's national lottery operator." An example is Canada's fourth largest public pension fund, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), which announced in its 2015 annual report that Australia ...

Vanguard notches fourth successive year of record inflows

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
Vanguard, the world's largest provider of index funds, has notched up its fourth successive year of record inflows with US$256 billion ($372 billion) coming through its doors in 2015. The figure represents a 5.3% increase on the previous year's inflows. ...

Former Mercer consultant launches research platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
A former Mercer and van Eyk senior consultant has launched DiligenceVault, a new managed funds research platform in Australia. Hansi Mehrotra worked as a research consultant at van Eyk and later Mercer for more than 15 years before moving to India to ...