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ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
ING Investment Management (ING IM) and Credit Agricole Asset Management (Singapore) beat 36 global fund managers and custodians to manage the Philippine Government Service Insurance System's $1.1 billion global asset mandate. The Government Service ...

RREEF expands client relations

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
RREEF, the global alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank, yesterday announced the appointment of Philip Levinson to the newly-created role of head of client relations Asia (ex-Japan) and Australia, and Jon Tanaka as head of portfolio ...

AustralianSuper selects JPMorgan

... Under the contract, JPMorgan PEFS will manage and support various processes for AustralianSuper, including alternative investment performance and investor tracking. AustralianSuper's decision to use a platform that specifically caters for private equity ...

Half price hedge fund?

... savings and lower trading costs compared to the typical fund of hedge fund," said Michael O'Dea, principal (Alternative Investment Strategies). Addressing investor concerns on the relative lack of transparency and liquidity of FOHFs, Triplepoint will ...

Industry funds not holding up transfers: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has rejected criticism by some financial planners that industry super funds are taking too long to process superannuation transfers. AIST's chief executive officer, Fiona Reynolds, said the ...

Instos to buy more alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... institutions with more than A$1 billion in assets across North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. Among alternative investment options, 94 per cent of Australian institutions favour real estate investments. Meanwhile expected returns on alternative ...

MGI launches Queen Street Partners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... investors in Australia and overseas. "Queen Street Partners will be separately branded, but 100 per cent owned, alternative investment management business with boutique style operational independence," he said. Rady said that backed by Macquarie Global ...

All aboard SimCorp Xpress

Exotic instruments could soon become familiar territory to Australian-based fund managers after software specialist SimCorp expanded XpressInstruments, a software module for alternative investments. Visiting Australia last week, SimCorp's global chief ...

HSBC brings alts business Down Under

... experience, combined with our global deal flow and long term relationships can give Australian clients access to alternative investment opportunities that local institutions simply cannot access. Tuohy said Australia is arguably the most significant ...

Future fund appoints another private equity expert

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
The federal government's Future Fund has appointed Steve Byrom to investment director of private markets. Starting the role next week, Byrom will report to head of private markets Gary Gabriel. Byrom has more than 12 years experience in private equity ...