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Pension funds sue Allianz Global Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Several pension funds are suing hedge funds managed by Allianz Global Investors for allegedly engaging in risk-taking behaviour and losing billions of dollars in retirement savings. The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (ATRS) was the first pension ...

VFMC director nabs global role

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... leads the investment manager's fundamental equities business across its US, Europe, global, emerging markets, hedge funds, thematic/sectors, and sustainability active strategies. Gamba has worked at BlackRock for nearly 20 years, during which he ...

Hedge funds in the green

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... average, returned 3.10% year to date, well below the results seen in 2019 (14.3%). According to the data, the ten largest hedge funds underperformed the industry average during both August and the year thus far, returning 0.32% and -1.21% respectively. ...

Super contributions rise despite ERS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... income and 13.6% in cash. Property and infrastructure accounted for 14.2% of investments whilst other assets, including hedge funds and commodities, accounted for 3.1%.

Sunsuper announces investment, insurance changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... January 1 next year, Sunsuper will close its Capital Guaranteed Investment option. It will also change the name of its Hedge Funds and Alternatives Strategies asset class to simply Alternative Strategies from 1 October 2020. Elsewhere, the definition ...

Former BNY Mellon IM country head joins Westpac

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... international markets. He is a highly experienced professional with expertise across credit, real estate, private equity, hedge funds, equities and structured products," a spokesperson for Westpac said. "His global experience and strong technical skills ...

Pinnacle reports FY20 inflows, profits

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... most demand for Resolution Capital, and the likes of Antipodes (long only strategy), private capital managers and hedge funds.

Good quarter but bad year for US instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... This category uses alternative assets extensively, with substantial median allocations to private equity (15.1%) and hedge funds (11.6%). The numbers are based on 320 large US institutional investment plans totaling over US $1 trillion in assets which ...

Citi adds to markets, custody leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... New York office. She will focus on growing the bank's strategic relationships with asset managers and sovereign and hedge funds in Australia and New Zealand. McKerihanhas held sales and trading positions globally with Citi. She was most recently markets ...

MSCI shifts to the cloud with Microsoft alliance

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... will enhance MSCI's client experience among the world's sophisticated investors, including asset managers and owners, hedge funds and banks by leveraging Microsoft's cloud and AI technologies. The companies will initially focus on migrating its index ...