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IFM Investors and Samsung partner for infrastructure fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... collaboration to offer stable returns to local institutional investors who are "diversifying their investments to overseas alternatives amid the current low interest and low growth investment environment." The fund will primarily target infrastructure ...

Sovereign wealth fund growth steady

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... to traditional asset classes like public equities and fixed income. Sovereign funds are increasingly investing in alternatives, with the report showing 61% investing in private equity and 63% investing in real estate and infrastructure. Despite the slowed ...

Japan to drive real assets globally

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
... Japanese institutional investment environment is being transformed and investors are increasingly hungry for investment alternatives. "Japanese investors, both retail and institutional, are broadly seen as conservative, with more than 50% of financial ...

QIC answers global infrastructure demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... strong institutional investor support for alternative investments as well as QIC's strategic focus on diversified alternatives." QGIF has received strong support from Australasian investors (including from China, Japan and Korea), as well as investors ...

BNY Mellon strengthens insto team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... Gambi has joined the company at a time when they are "experiencing great momentum particularly across private debt, alternatives and multi-asset strategies."

Blue Sky expands board with new directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... welcomed former Queensland chairman for KPMG, Philip Hennessy. Hennessy already serves on the board of the Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund, though will retire from this role on 31 May 2017. Hennessy has about 40 years' experience in the sector, having ...

Suncorp begins life business optimisation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... Suncorp said it was rolling out the optimisation program following a portfolio review. It is also exploring strategic alternatives for the life business "to better meet customer needs and maximise shareholder value." Suncorp's life business saw net profit ...

Whitehelm drives Prime Super outperformance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... Prime Super across 120,000 member accounts, was instrumental in driving up the public offer fund's allocation to alternatives. In 2016, the firm helped Prime Super make major investments in the space, including a senior secured bond issuance by Autovia ...

Real assets courting insto appetites in 2017

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... 47% of investors surveyed intending to increase their allocations here and only 9% planning for a decrease. In the alternatives space, nearly half (48%) of investors said they would increase their allocations to private equity. "Institutional investors ...

Australian pension market grows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... a fall in allocations to equities and bonds over the past 20 years which was countered by greater allocations to alternatives. Australia also has the second largest pool of defined contribution assets with 87% of Australia's total pension assets (USD ...