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Small-caps can improve investment trade-offs

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... returns to justify typical base fees. "In identifying suitable managers, attention needs to be paid to factors such as liquidity management, sector and macro risk positioning (especially relative to the investors' other sector holdings), stock quality ...

Listed and direct real estate show correlation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... The paper, Don't tell me it's not real estate, is the first in a series on listed real estate and suggests the daily liquidity of the asset class means it behaves more like equities if investing in the short term. The paper also highlights how listed ...

Government bonds no longer a safe bet

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... allocations to them and probably look at our clients and say well for a lot of our clients do they actually need the level of liquidity that we assign to traditional portfolios? Most portfolios that you would manage and most clients that you would have ...

Focus Financial looking for more local partners

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... people who say I don't know how to make this work. We're interested in investing in successful firms who say I want some liquidity and diversification but I want to continue to run my firm in a very independent fashion but I'd like help to grow. "That's ...

Boomers driving interest in PAFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
Baby boomers are driving an increase in the establishment of private ancillary funds (PAFs) following liquidity events such as the sales of a business, according to national accounting and advisory firm William Buck. A PAF is a philanthropic trust structure ...

Ethics and income not incompatible: Martin Currie

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... quality/risk criteria from both a fundamental and quantitative perspective, have appropriate levels of debt and have adequate liquidity and size." Going beyond that, the research argued that environmental, social and governance factors "can impact the ...

Future Fund keeps powder dry

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... and our belief that we should only take on risk where the potential rewards justify it. "The Future Fund retains ample liquidity which we feel is appropriate in the current environment. Should expected risk adjusted returns move to more attractive levels ...

Commodities slump stalling sovereign wealth growth

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... objective setting, management and accountability within a fund as risk/return targets are disregarded in place of short-term liquidity needs."

BlackRock's Fink issues stark warning for global economy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... on developed world central bank policy and negative nominal yields, Fink said: "Investors are being forced to trade liquidity for yield by taking on more risk and investing in less liquid asset classes - a potentially dangerous combination for retirement ...

Infrastructure Capital Group targets $1bn for asset purchases

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... seeking specialist infrastructure asset growth and revenue via pooled funds and separate accounts. To allow greater liquidity and flexibility, the firm has introduced to its once open-ended DIT and EIT terms a right for investors to redeem after an initial ...