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Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... obsession with low fees might be more acute in Australia, investors globally have started to shun hedge funds. Giant US pension fund CalPERS was among the first to enter the space, and the first to leave it in September 2014. At the same time, the Dodd-Frank ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Mark Wills once managed to play rugby, go to university, have a job and meet his future wife within a single year. But after managing to juggle so many activities during the early years of his career, today State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of ...

Islamic super fund sees 245% FUM growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... numbers growing close to tenfold during the year. The fund, founded in 2013, is the world's first private Islamic pension fund and it offers a series of investment options. Its Islamic cash management fund accounts for 29% of funds under management and ...

Advisers to remain at centre of CBA: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has insisted that despite the challenges the bank has faced in its financial advice business and in spite of widespread digitisation, face-to-face planners will remain at the heart of the company's business ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... Platinum Asset Management, led by local star manager Kerr Neilson, was listed as the 19th largest hedge fund manager by pension fund assets under management. The survey shows that the top 10 local alternatives managers by funds under management are ...

BMO to manage ESG for $53bn NZ funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
BMO Global Asset Management has been appointed to support three New Zealand pension funds managing more than $53.2 billion with environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. BMO will provide responsible investment engagement services for New Zealand ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Institutional investors might be too confident that their downside protection strategies can cope with market drawdowns. A recent report by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) found investors largely rely on a small number of downside protection strategies ...

Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... masked by strong valuation gains. According to BIS, industry estimates show the share of alternative investments in pension fund asset portfolios has risen to 25% in 2014, up from 5% in 2001. It is mirrored by a 20 percentage point drop in the equity ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... greenfield infrastructure projects for long term equity investors.A It would ensure a long term equity partner - such as a pension fund - owns and operates an asset over its economic life to the benefit of members. "The inverted bid model, which has ...

Infrastructure allocations up 14% in two years

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The top 100 infrastructure investors have increased their holdings in the asset class by 14% to $310 billion, according to Preqin research. This reflects the growing demand for infrastructure investment worldwide and supports the projection in PwC's ...