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US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... all the different aspects of their securities lending programs. "As the various markets become more mature, many institutional investors have moved on from simply looking at what are the actual returns from their lending revenue, to being more competitive ...

Comm Bank halts ABN AMRO talks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
... acquisition in this environment," the statement said. "The Bank will continue to fully focus its efforts in the institutional banking and markets area on further organic growth and on being a leading provider of a full range of innovative and competitive ...

Who plays the PE game, wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... cent. The firm's international equity program universe also suffered burns with 8.3 per cent losses. Overall, U.S. institutional investment funds reported a third consecutive quarter of negative results for the period ending June 30, 2008, the data showed. ...

Telstra Super FP hires Coin

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... enhance. "Whenever we approach an agreement like this our main priority is to develop a strong partnership with the institutional client, which is especially important during the implementation phase," said Coin managing director, Darelle Jenkins. "Our ...

Impact Investing global yet local

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... why they intend rolling out the system globally as part of their Aladdin platform that already reaches 100 major institutional clients and helps manage US$1.4 trillion in assets. To protect the culture and philosophy that created Impact Investing, BlackRock ...

Apostle fund raises $30m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
Apostle Asset Management's Global Small-Mid Cap fund successfully raised $30 million from an institutional investor in just over three months. The fund comprises of two fund managers, Highclere Global International Investors and Vaughan Nelson Investment ...

Bad markets to test boutiques

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... boutique investment managers inherently take on more risk and generally exhibit a higher tracking error compared to the institutional counterparts, overall investors have been rewarded, said McSkimming. Indeed, boutique investment managers outperformed ...

S&P studies single manager alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... selling and derivatives trading to gain income with a portfolio of mostly shares and bonds, had evolved in both institutional and retail market demand, the report said. Tactical allocation strategies, overall, had under performed due to its quantitative ...

RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... said Greg Medcraft, chief executive of the Australian Securitisation Forum (ASF). Medcraft said confidence among institutional lenders, being the groups that buy the RMBS bonds that fund the mortgages that hundreds of thousands of Australians use to ...

APFC appoints $782m infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... funds by Goldman Sachs and Alinda Capital Partners. The APFC board poured the investments into the new Goldman Sachs Institutional Infrastructure Partners II fund and Alinda II fund. "A pooled fund has a maximum size at which it can still effectively ...