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Managed accounts work for insto investors too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... technology and investment administration group has been using the structure to more efficiently manage institutional alternatives investments. Bruce Keith, chief executive of InfraHedge, an investment administration technology group that is a subsidiary ...

Franklin Templeton recruits Towers Watson consultant

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... managing director Samuel Mann and expand Franklin Templeton's solutions capabilities as well as K2 Advisors' bespoke alternatives capabilities. "We are excited to have Felicity as part of our team. Hiring an experienced professional with an institutional ...

Pengana Capital appoints Singapore director

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... earnings upgrades/downgrades and capital structure arbitrage. Huston has held a broad range of positions within the alternatives industry over the past 12 years. Most recently he was a managing partner at RH Partners Asia in Singapore, and head of APAC ...

Alternatives sector shaped by regulation, customer demand

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
The alternatives sector is transforming due to regulatory pressures and the needs of a growing institutional customer-base, according to Lonsec's recently published Alternatives Sector Review. Lonsec's research covered 33 investment products, including ...

Future Fund smashes its performance target in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... performance outcome is that while regular super funds are about 20% invested into Australian equities and 13% into alternatives, the Future Fund has only 9% held in Australian equities but 31% in alternatives, the fund's latest report reveals. The fund ...

VicSuper awards $100M absolute return mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
VicSuper has awarded a $100 million mandate to a global fixed interest manager as part of its alternatives strategy. The mandate was awarded to Payden & Rygel (P&R) absolute return strategy, which aims to generate returns of 2% above the 3 month AFMA ...

Multi asset and income in favour: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... also identified a desire to look beyond traditional betas in both fixed income and equities, increased interested in alternatives and clients' recognition of lower forward-looking returns. "Considering that growth is likely to remain measured and that ...

Hedge funds were top alternatives performers in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
Hedge funds accounted for over half of the asset growth across alternatives in 2014, despite their underwhelming performance during the past year, a Preqin report found. In 2014, hedge funds posted returns of 3.78%, which represents the lowest average ...

Threadneedle set for name change

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... in assets under management across developed and emerging market equities, fixed income, multi-asset solutions and alternatives (including UK property). Both Columbia and Threadneedle are owned by listed US financial services firm Ameriprise Financial ...

Big changes on way for pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
Pension funds around the globe are going to ramp up their risk appetite, take big bets on alternatives, switch from being asset owners to asset managers and transform how they deal with external investment managers, reveals a major survey released by ...