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Infocus subsidiary adds to multi-manager suite

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
... Australian equities, global equities, fixed interest securities, property securities, infrastructure securities and alternatives.

Modern Silk Road presents investment jewel

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... Belt and Road model portfolio was in direct response to its clients looking to offer engaging investing thematic alternatives to their own clients. "In this case specifically, we are addressing our clients' request to make available a portfolio designed ...

Blue Sky profits underscore alternatives opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... by 11%, excluding employee expenses, largely as a result of capital raising and fee rebates paid to the Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund, the company's ASX-listed retail investment vehicle. Blue Sky said it was well on the course to reaching its goal ...

CBA contemplates CommInsure sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... is currently uncertain. The discussions could result in a total divestment of the business, but "a full range of alternatives" would also be considered, including retaining CommInsure or implementing reinsurance arrangements. CBA's New Zealand-based ...

Retirement advice will take hit from education reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... close their doors," Sinclair said. Rather than selling businesses at fire sale prices, planners should seek feasible alternatives as it simply makes no sense in an environment of growing consumer demand and market for financial advice, he said. "The ...

Investment managers turning to hungry retail market

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
Boutique and alternatives managers, traditionally the purview of institutional and wholesale investors, are turning to an increasingly sophisticated retail market to diversify their client bases. Consider Cooper Investors, the $11 billion global equities ...

Asset managers feeling profit squeeze

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... remains challenging, and the decade-long migration of investments from traditional active-core assets to passives and alternatives will persist, hence squeezing traditional assets and shrinking revenues. BCG principal and the report's co-author Helene ...

Macquarie leads alternatives pack

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... months to December 2016, with Macquarie Group dominating the local sector. The annual Willis Towers Watson global alternatives survey of 562 investment managers (which included 47 from Asia Pacific) found real estate managers (35%) hold the lion's share ...

Global $430bn manager enters Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
A US-based global alternatives firm with more than $430 billion in assets under management is setting up shop in Sydney, appointing a local principal in the process. As head of Australia and New Zealand, James Martin will spearhead Hamilton Lane's operations ...

Global asset manager acquires stake in Aussie driller

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
A global alternatives investment management firm with $120 billion under management will invest a portion of its funds into western-Australian deep directional mineral drilling services company DDH1 Drilling. Oaktree Capital Management, headquartered ...