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Costello lands MD role at advisory firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
Future Fund board member and former Treasurer, Peter Costello, has been appointed managing director of independent financial and corporate advisory services firm, BKK Partners. Alastair Walton, chair at BKK Partners, said he has known Costello for more ...

Costello joins Future Fund board

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... Lindsay Tanner, minister for finance and deregulation. "To have the experience of someone like Mr Costello on the Future Fund board will be of great benefit," Tanner said. Costello will take up the position left by John Paterson when his term expires. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... the Australian Office of Financial Management will conduct a tender of short-dated Treasury notes. Meanwhile, Future Fund Board of Guardians chairman David Murray addresses the Australian Institute of Company Directors in Sydney. In company news, Austar ...

Future Fund hires more managers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... Real Estate Advisors each winning a slice of the $529 million invested in property. David Murray, chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, also flagged increased investments in debt markets. Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Oak Hill Advisors were ...

Future Fund posts 6pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... materially increasing exposures to debt markets to take advantage of higher returns," said David Murray, chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians. Despite the overall losses, the fund remains staunch in its long term view on investments and will continue ...

Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... which were excluded from its performance data, generated a 3.23 per cent return for the quarter. David Murray, Future Fund Board of Guardians chair, said the fund is well positioned to weather the financial crisis. "The first quarter saw Australian and ...

Future Fund is $652m richer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... different?', And we are going to be different." Meanwhile, the Higher Education Endowment Fund (HEEF), which the Future Fund board also manages, returned 4.99 per cent since September last year. The fund's two billion Telstra shares, worth $8.5 billion ...

Howard flags infrastructure fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... that it simply copied their 'Building Australia Fund' scheme, where future surpluses would be managed by the Future Fund board and used for future infrastructure projects. Labor said its infrastructure investment priorities would be set independently ...

New guardian for the Future Fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... Treasurer and the Minister For Finance and Administration have announced the appointment of John Paterson to the Future Fund board of guardians. Paterson fills the vacancy left by Robert Elstone, who was forced to resign from the board after his appointment ...

Future Fund is a government subsidiary: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
Despite arguments by the Future Fund board that it acts independently of politics, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated the obvious in saying it is a subsidiary of government. In its latest report on the Australian economy, the IMF has singled ...