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Sovereign wealth funds climb to US$5.5tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... financial crisis (GFC) and that resources continue to be the main sources of SWF capital flows. Norway's Government Pension Fund at US$737 billion was reported as the world's largest SWF followed by UAE Abu Dhabi's Investment Authority with US$627 billion ...

Macquarie Group tops global alternative investment table

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Australian financial services firm Macquarie Group is the world's largest investor in alternative assets with almost $95 billion invested in infrastructure, according to research by Towers Watson and the Financial Times. Total assets managed by the ...

Fossil fuel companies to be rendered 'worthless': IMPAX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Investments in companies focused on fossil fuels could be rendered 'worthless' in the face of falling demand and tighter global regulation on carbon dioxide emissions, according to IMPAX Asset Management, which said new research shows that exposure ...

State Street exec jumps ship to Citi

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... Australia Michael Jackett-Simpson said. "His appointment shows the commitment Citi has to servicing the Australian Pension Fund market and growing our local business," he said. Gurkhi has more than eight years' experience in transition management. Before ...

Will Australia escape an EM bond crisis?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The high-yield emerging market (EM) bond market may be a bubble waiting to burst, but Australian bonds can escape this fate, according Fred Goodwin, macro strategist at State Street Global Markets. Since 2008, the high yields offered by EM bonds have ...

IFM mulls Asia office

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
Melbourne-based global manager Industry Funds Management (IFM) could set up a sales distribution office in Asia later this year as part of a strategy to raise capital from the region's large pension funds. IFM chief executive Brett Himbury told Financial ...

SEC charges US adviser with pension fund theft

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... has charged the leader of a Detroit-based investment adviser for stealing nearly $3.1 million from a public sector pension fund. The SEC alleges that Chauncey C Mayfield, who is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of MayfieldGentry Realty ...

US hedge funds abandon Europe on new regulations

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
A number of large US hedge funds have scrapped plans to enter Europe and have put existing operations under review in response to new European regulation, the Financial Times has reported. Their retreat comes in response to the arrival of the Alternative ...

Trans-Tasman super rollovers exclude SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
The government's finalised regulations have allowed superannuation rollovers between Australia and New Zealand but exclude self-managed super funds (SMSFs). From 1 July 2013 it will be possible to transfer retirement savings account proceeds between ...

UK to consider Australia model for small pension fund mergers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Support is gathering for the UK government to follow in Australia's footsteps and merge small local authority pension funds after Financial Times research revealed huge disparities in fees paid to fund managers. According to the UK broadsheet, some ...