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Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... million of FUM, around $400 million of which is classed as retail investment. Early in 2010, Mercer became its first institutional supporter and the demand now appears to be increasing with the fund in its fourth year of operation. Its team has grown ...

Trust grows with NZ purchase

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, so we've got a good regional offering of trustee services." Atkin said big institutional investors and investment funds, especially from the northern hemisphere used the corporate side of the business as a gateway ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... recently launched by investment manager GAM and Fermat Capital Management, he said, with minimum investment of $25,000. Institutional asset manager Nephila Capital offers catastrophe reinsurance funds though it is not known how much of these are tied ...

Inflation fears raise appeal of alternative assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Alternatives are predicted to enjoy a surge of inflows over the next three years as institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds move to protect themselves against inflation. Inflation and its potential effect on institutional investing is gaining ...

Vanguard saves $8.7m

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... reduce the spreads when a crossing of $500,000 or more occurs in a wholesale index fund," Geoff Diamond, Principal, Institutional, Vanguard. Vanguard provides a monthly crossing day to enable investors to save on costs. On all other days the normal crossings ...

NAB buys 35pc stake in AREA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... market has shown signs of a rebound, according to the MIT Centre for Real Estate, whose price index which tracks institutional investor sales rose 19.3 per cent in 2010 with an 11.9 per cent run in the fourth quarter. AREA has current assets under management ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... According to the website Kerr " has been trading commodities since 1989" and "currently manages the Cane Garden Capital institutional agricultural fund." I'll see your US$300 and raise you US$378! Arabianbusiness.com quoted Matthew Simmons -- chairman ...

Dutch pension tackles longevity risk and ageing population

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... longevity means pressure is being put on the system. Else Bos, deputy chairman of the executive committee, Chief Institutional Business for PGGM - the second-largest pension provider in the nation - spoke at the Melbourne Financial Services Symposium ...

Annuities help combat longevity risk: Cooper

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... In the year to June 2010, Challenger wrote $2.2 billion in annuity sales, split almost evenly across retail and institutional markets while its retail annuity sales in the September quarter rose 40 per cent on the previous corresponding quarter to $343 ...

Centric Wealth reframes advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... love to encourage others to do it this way, to share our thinking, but I don't think many will purely due to the institutional masters that will prevent that. I think this will set us, and hopefully others, apart." "This is an important day, not only ...