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Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... comprising 840 funds. The 10 biggest endowment funds represent 35% of the market. The biggest endowment funds were found to be Harvard University with US$30.4 billion in assets, followed by Yale University with US$19.3 billion, University of Texas System ...

NZ Super makes key hires following Datacom investment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... senior roles with organisations including: EDS, National Australia Bank, Westpac, IBM and Ansett. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. For the last three and a half years, Sutton was head of direct investment ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... appetite quantitatively by analyzing the actual buying and selling patterns of institutional investors. It was developed by Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot and Paul O'Connell of State Street Associates. The index tracks changes in investor ...

Aus PE funds on the right side of supply & demand

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... said. Recent private equity mandates awarded in the United States show that investors are demanding more influence, said Harvard investment banking professor Josh Lerner. Investment managers are realising that they can't rely on high fees and great "deal ...

Investor confidence hits 14 year low

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... "Globally, institutional investor confidence is at the lowest level it has been since the inception of the ICI in 1998," said Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index. "This month's reading is 1.5 points below the previous ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... global investor confidence is the result of diminished risk appetite among both North American and Asian investors," said Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index with State Street Associate's Paul O'Connell. Given the United ...

MFOs take growth from banks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... municipal bonds. The fund had been pitched to Citi's private-banking clients as a safe bond alternative. Bloomberg quotes the Harvard Business School Families in Business program chair as saying multifamily offices have been trying to figure out a profitable ...

SMSFs need better access to alternatives: BlueSky

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... Multiport that shows a 1.1% allocation to the broad 'alternatives' bucket, which contrasts with the strong-performing Harvard Endowment Fund, which has 42% and the Future Fund with 30%. "Over the same time period, Australian super has returned 5.2% per ...

HIP Super members get access to Best Doctors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... claiming the deal was only possible because of its small size. MLC's Best Doctors is an exclusive service run out of the Harvard Medical School that allows members to contact panels of the world's best doctors to re-examine their case notes, introduce ...