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How to win family office mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... the process for inclusion can take years. With the exception of Wolf Capital, which already has a 25% allocation to alternatives, each family office exec said they were likely to increase their allocations to hedge funds in the future, though they said ...

FUM breaks thru $2tr

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... market. This penetration still lags the 29% level observed in the US but the gap is closing. While FUM allocated to the alternatives segment increased to 17% of the broad market not all alternatives segments shared the upside with hedge fund decreasing ...

Throw out relative performance tables: Finsia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... projected replacement rate (i.e. projected annuity income divided by projected final salary) were all suggested as alternatives to the current focus on annualised returns over one, three, five and 10 years. According to Finsia, moving to these measures ...

Crisis deepens for van Eyk Blueprint funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
The van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Fund and van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Plus Fund are the only surviving products remaining in the Blueprint series following the decision by Macquarie to terminate a further nine portfolios that it acts as responsible ...

State Street appoints head of alternatives in Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
State Street's new head of alternatives for Asia Pacific will look after the organisation's hedge fund, private equity and real estate businesses in the region. Bob Keogh will be based in Hong Kong and has more than two decades of experience in financial ...

Infrastructure valuations at all-time highs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... infrastructure assets traded so far this year are at the highest level on record, according to the latest analysis by alternatives research house Preqin. More than one-third of transactions completed in the year to date were valued at more than $500 ...

Demand for alternatives sees Blue Sky profits rise

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... Alternative Investments has reported a 60% increase in after tax profit of $6.24 million for the full year to 30 June. The alternatives fund manager's revenue grew 69% from $14.2 million to $24.0 million. The company will pay a fully franked dividend ...

A quarter of global instos plan to grow alternatives investment teams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
More than a quarter of global institutional investors expect to grow their alternative investment teams over the next two years, according to the latest survey by Preqin. The specialist research house asked 380 global institutions who are active in ...

Blue Sky reveals asset allocation of first alternatives LIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has allocated nearly 70% of the $60 million raised for its Alternatives Access Fund into a range of alternative assets including private equity and venture capital, water and agriculture, a hedge fund and private real ...

NGS launches income-focused retirement product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... income from investment earnings. It has an asset allocation of 30% Australian equities, 22% global equities, 4% growth alternatives, 4% international property, 20% Australian property, 4% defensive alternatives and 16% cash and fixed interest.