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Sovereign wealth funds ramp up alternatives exposure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
Sovereign wealth funds are increasingly investing new allocations to alternative asset classes, figures from the second annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study show. The study was conducted amongst more than 50 individual sovereign investors ...

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Irregularities amounting to more than $US5 billion ($A5.41 billion) have been found at China's sovereign wealth fund and two large state-owned banks, according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse into the opaque management of government-controlled ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following gains on Wall Street where investors weighed continued violence in Iraq and mixed US economic data ahead of the Federal Reserve policy statement. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... Commissioned by Principal Global Investors, the report is produced from the results of surveys of 704 pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, pension consultants, and asset managers from around the world as well as structured interviews with 110 organisations. ...

Investors return to active global equities managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... averaged 14.3% since the start of 2013 compared with an average of 20.1% over the past 25 years. "A calming of the European sovereign debt crisis and an improved US economy are underpinning the global economic outlook and reducing volatility," he said. ...

IFM grows infra debt team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... have increasingly turned to infrastructure debt as a defensive allocation, given the low real returns from conventional sovereign bonds. Over the past two years, we have made great strides building specialist resources to offer infrastructure debt expertise ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... crisis in 1997/98 but overall remained within the US$400 an ounce mark. And then the GFC struck and then the European sovereign debt crisis and propelled the yellow metal's price close to US$2,000 per ounce. These, along with fears that the US Federal ...

OMFG! Australia could lose an A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... agency - Standard & Poor's has waded in into the Federal Budget and put us, Australians all, on notice. Just read S&P's sovereign analyst Craig Michael's lips: "If it looked as though "sizeable budget deficits were considered acceptable at the political ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... last night compared with 21.4 three months ago and how could anyone forget the 48 VIX reading three years ago (European sovereign debt crisis) or the 56.7 reading in the midst of the GFC in 2009? Those were also the days when financial musers like moi ...

Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Future Fund has achieved rolling 3 year returns of about 9.5% pa, putting the de facto sovereign wealth fund on par with workplace super funds when the Future Fund's tax-free and member-free status is taken into account. The $98 billion Future Fund ...