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Sophisticated investor register launched

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... allows them to view the status of their clients in one central location, simplifying the marketing of new investment opportunities to sophisticated investors." Sophisticated investors receive priority access to institutional deals including pre-IPO offers ...

Former JBWere acting CEO joins Impact Investing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... Australia. Madhavan will head up the newly-formed not-for-profit organisation that aims to grow impact investment opportunities such as social benefit bonds. Madhavan spent 12 years at wealth management firm JBWere, working in a range of roles including ...

Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... thinking regarding asset allocation and picking managers. That's not the job. The job is finding great investment opportunities and getting them into the portfolio and managing the risk," he said. "Relative returns mandates are very profitable and it's ...

AMP creates global infra platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... strength. "There is strong demand for an investment vehicle that can take advantage of the significant investment opportunities driven by the global need for infrastructure. The platform we have created, which offers new investors immediate access to ...

New Perpetual LIC gets Zenith rating

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... in Australia", adding that it "employs a fundamentally driven, bottom-up research effort to identify investment opportunities with their process exhibiting a strong value bias." Speaking specifically about PIC, Zenith said: "PIC's Portfolio Manager is ...

ANU divests seven companies, seeks equities manager

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... holdings. In November last year ANU adopted a Socially Responsible Investment Policy, which aims to "avoid investment opportunities considered to be likely to cause substantial social injury" and "positively promote investment in securities, companies ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... as well as "stronger political leadership and more ambitious policies" to facilitate more low carbon investment opportunities. "We believe," the statement read, "that well designed and implemented policies would encourage us to invest significantly more ...

Don't ditch the RET, instos tell Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL), reflecting the fact that the majority of renewable energy investment opportunities are in unlisted companies and ventures It read: "For years we've been investing the savings of Australians in projects on ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... State, AustralianSuper and BT, had signed a statement calling on governments to facilitate more low carbon investment opportunities. It also comes two days after the Rockefeller Brothers Fund - an endowment fund founded with wealth from John D. Rockefeller's ...

BNP Paribas granted on-shore renminbi licence

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... structurally underweight in the world's second largest economy and are now looking to fill this gap with the new investment opportunities that are being offered. The company's Asia Pacific chief executive Vincent Camerlynck added: "BNP Paribas Investment ...