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Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... in October 2013 to $6.31 trillion in March 2015. According to Preqin's research, the largest sovereign wealth funds are Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (with $818 billion in assets under management) and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, with ...

Investec property fund acquires $8.1m warehouse

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... lease to industrial engineering design company Wilhelmsen Manufacturing Australia (WMA). WMA is owned by Skips AS Tudor Norway, the private investment vehicle of the Wilhelmsen shipping and logistics family. The remaining income (7%) is underpinned by ...

Phone usage reveals opportunity for financial services

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... 2,000 mobile consumers places Australia as the fifth most concentrated smartphone market in the world after Singapore, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Part of a global four year longitudinal Deloitte study of 37,000 consumers spanning 22 countries - the research ...

Women-led companies better for investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... Australian company board directors (ranked 14th) compared to 17.9% in the UK (ranked 12th) and 13.7% in the US (ranked 21st). Norway topped the list with 40%.

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... in the south-east bloc. "The developed world can also be handily described by this matrix", said Power. "Oil-exporting Norway is in the north-east; Australia, Canada and New Zealand are in the north-west; the US and UK are in the south-west; and Japan ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... fund once again topped the list with its $1.2 trillion, and was the only fund to break into the trillion. It was followed Norway's Government Pension Fund, with funds under management of $858 billion. The Netherlands' ABP came in third with $415 billion ...

Citi wins custody of Norway's Oil Fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
Citi has replaced JP Morgan as custodian to Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the body that manages Norway's $850 billion Government Pension Fund Global. Colloquially known as 'the Oil Fund', according to Towers Watson it is the second largest ...

Sovereign Wealth Funds surge to $5 trillion

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... fund products Amy Bensted said. The largest sovereign wealth fund globally is Government Pension Fund - Global, based in Norway, with $775.2bn in assets under management; this is an increase of $185bn since 2012. Asia-based sovereign wealth funds have ...

NZ Super CEO appointed deputy chair of IFSWF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... Superannuation Fund. Other members include the Oil Revenues Stabilization Fund of Mexico, the China Investment Corporation, and Norway's US$ 325 billion Government Pension Fund - aka 'the oil fund'.

New deal opens Europe to Aussie AIFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The arrangement includes most EU members, and some non-members including Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein. ASIC Chairman Greg Medcraft said: "We are pleased to have these cooperation arrangements in place. ...