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Macquarie advisers defect to start independent firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... non-aligned boutique advice firm. Jeffrey Wrightson, Stephen Thaxter, Chris Forrest and Nina Kazmierczak have set up Sovereign Wealth Partners, a firm backed by Bennelong Wealth Partners, the wealth management arm of Bangarra Group, which also owns Bennelong ...

QIC raises $1 billion for infrastructure fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... Infrastructure Fund (QGIF), reaching roughly 50% of its target. Investors in the fund include Hostplus as well as "an Asian sovereign wealth fund, one of China's leading insurers and two foundation QIC clients," according to QIC's statement. QGIF will ...

Climate change to impact financial systems

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... "fiscal risk from unfunded public contingent liabilities arising from the effects of climate change" and "Australian sovereign debt, if affected by factors including macro outlook changes due to our carbon-intensive economy." This is already reflected ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... securities regulator has halted 28 IPOs and created a 120 billion yuan market stabilisation fund; it asked (commanded) sovereign wealth to buy shares and not sell, among others. And if these still don't work, you can bet your bottom dollar there'll be ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... authority to make investment decisions on behalf of private and public pension funds, endowments and foundations, and sovereign wealth funds in Asia Pacific, Europe and the US. It found that 86% of respondents have implemented downside protection strategies ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... applied to projects financed by the AIIB," Collins said. "The resources of the AIIB will increase scope for pension and sovereign wealth funds to invest in long term, productive assets in the region. "Australia, like Asia, is dealing with the challenges ...

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... investors chase returns, not asset classes. Only 10% disagreed about this statement. The report surveyed 705 pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, pension consultants and fund buyers with total assets under management of US$26.8 trillion ...

Fund manager fees too high: David Neal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... specialists in each asset class would have a "profound impact" on the Future Fund's culture and therefore the $117 billion sovereign wealth fund continues to rely on "strongA partnershipsA withA managersA under arrangementsA that areA asA costA effectiveA ...

Future Fund and AustralianSuper settle court case

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... this matter has not admitted any liability," it added. The case started in 2013, when AustralianSuper questioned the sovereign wealth fund's acquisition of an $875 million stake in Perth airport, as part of an agreement in 2012 to acquire $2 billion ...

North American sovereigns hardest hit by oil crisis

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
Sovereign wealth funds in North America will suffer the biggest impacts of the sharp drop in oil prices, rather than those in oil-producing emerging markets. Invesco's Global Sovereign Asset Management Study shows that the majority (80%) of North American ...