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Fees still an issue for alternatives: WTW

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... Watson (WTW), which found that while inflows remain steady, investors are increasingly looking for ways to reduce fees. The Global Alternatives Survey, which covers 10 asset classes and seven investor types, revealed real estate managers have the largest ...

Three Aus funds awarded AAA climate rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... ratings for their climate change risk management from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project's (AODP) 2016 benchmark index, The Global Climate 500 Index. Local Government Super and Australian Super maintained AAA ratings, while First State Super was upgraded ...

Findex partners to advance medical research

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... Future Fund - a perpetual endowment fund aiming to allocate $1 billion annually for priority-driven medical research. Findex global head of business development Peter Gardiner said financial services and medical researchers need to be in collaboration ...

Global divesting institutions reach 500

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... momentum. The campaign Go Fossil Free, coordinated by non-governmental organisation 350.org has gathered support from 499 global institutions that collectively hold US$3.4 trillion ($4.6 trillion). Separately, the University of Massachusetts Foundation ...

AXA IM to launch impact fund in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... targeting institutional investors in Australia. The strategy will be the second impact investing fund managed by AXA IM global head of responsible investment Matt Christensen. Christensen confirmed that a number of superannuation funds had already expressed ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... this is the right idea. When Perpetual acting general manager for regulated fiduciary services Rupert Smoker attended the Global Alternative Investment Management (GAIM) conference in Amsterdam in June, he saw a telling narrative playing out: the US ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... too confident that their downside protection strategies can cope with market drawdowns. A recent report by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) found investors largely rely on a small number of downside protection strategies, but 91% were very or somewhat ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Global institutional investors are unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities. That's according to new investor behaviour research by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which conducted the research in January ...

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... climate change risk, along with three other top superannuation funds in Australia, an Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) global survey revealed. REST, Telstra Super, Super SA, Asgard and GESB also received the lowest possible rating among the funds ...

Future Fund alternatives head joins Hedge Fund Standards Board

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... Pacific. "We are thrilled to welcome our new Australian member to the board. It sends another powerful signal about the global importance of the HFSB mission for the investor community worldwide and particularly in Asia Pacific," the group's chairman ...