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Global Alternative Funds names managing director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
Oak Hill Advisors executive Signe Brandt has left the T Rowe Price-owned subsidiary to join the rival alternative asset investor. Brandt worked at the $63 billion credit-focused Oak Hill for 13 years, building up its Australian presence. Global Alternative ...

Family offices still love hedge funds: Preqin

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
... the globe have consistently invested in hedge funds over the past five years, maintaining a greater allocation than endowment plans, foundations, investment trusts, corporate investors, wealth managers, private sector pension funds, government agencies ...

New chair for iExtend

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
The founder of The Sentient Group and AMP's private capital business has been appointed chair of life insurer iExtend. Peter Cassidy is taking on the role. Cassidy established AMP's private capital business in 1993, managing investment funds across ...

JANA wins another NFP mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024
Investment consultant JANA has scored a mandate from a charitable organisation that is the steward of some $1.6 billion in assets. Uniting Financial Services (UFS), the lending and investment arm of the Uniting Church Synod of New South Wales and the ...

Frontier Advisors to choreograph The Australian Ballet endowment

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2023
Frontier Advisors is set to engineer the investment strategy for The Australian Ballet endowment. The asset consultant will lend its expertise in strategic asset allocation, manager research and selection, while also delivering performance reporting ...

Australian Retirement Trust selects chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023
... also served as Marsh McLennan chair of Australia. He began his career at AMP in 1987, working on the administration of endowment retirement plans, moving up the ranks to become managing principal, consultancy services before joining Mercer in 1998. To ...

Private credit boom sweeps Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2023
The private credit boom shows no signs of abating as a spate of wealth managers step into traditional lending practices once dominated by banks. But how long will its golden hour last? After a prolonged low-growth period, fund managers are swooping ...

Rising costs bite asset owners

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
The cost to do business for asset owners is becoming more expensive, as many report a 34% jump in fund servicing expenses over the last three years as they also grapple with lower management fees. The Investors' Costs and Fees report compiled by ...

Forrests boost Minderoo by $5bn

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2023
... foundation, Minderoo. The bequest of nearly $5 billion - about one-fifth of their shareholding - takes the foundation's endowment to about $7.6 billion, allowing it to "help meet the huge challenges society and humanity face." In a statement, the Forrests ...

Soros hands the reins to son

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
... father," he said. The Hungarian-American businessman built his fortune by establishing the Soros Fund (later the Quantum Endowment Fund) in the 1970's, and is well-regarded as one of the most successful hedge fund managers in history. His personal ...