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Hedge fund veteran joins Aura

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
Aura Group appointed Damien Hatfield as an executive director to help launch new funds in its alternative assets business. Hatfield is the founder and director of Triple A Partners. He helped set up a hedge funds-of-funds operation at Colonial First ...

WAM names prospective Blue Sky LIC team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... look to appoint Andy Smith to the investment committee. He has previously worked as a strategic advisor in alternative assets, private equity and private debt for sovereign wealth funds including Future Fund and NZ Super. Under the proposal, Siew and ...

Future Fund boosts alternatives assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
The Future Fund has increased its stake in alternative assets and appointed two new fund managers in a bid to combat the tailwinds coming from the global equities market. Australia's sovereign wealth fund increased its allocation in private equity ...

Private equity will become bigger than hedge funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... executive Mark O'Hare said: "Fourteen trillion dollars may sound like an overly ambitious prediction for the alternative assets industry, but it is lower than the average growth rate we've seen in the past decade." "There are several key factors that ...

Under the hood of low-fee funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... downside performance can be attributed to the different allocation to alternatives in the two groups, Zenith said. Alternative assets usually come at higher cost and hence lower fee multi-asset funds have to skimp on them. The research found low cost ...

Sequoia adds to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... as well as operational, transactional and risk management skills. Between 2012 and 2014, Martin was head of alternative assets for Nikko Asset Management (previously Tyndall Asset Management). He was a partner in Blackhall and Pearl, an independent board ...

Pengana flags private equity LIT launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... Grosvenor Capital Management to select investments for the soon-to-be ASX-listed investment trust. It invests in alternative assets such as hedge funds, private equity, real estate and infrastructure. Grosvenor was chosen because it has a long track ...

Future Fund delivers 9.3%, increases risk moderately

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... shocks remains," Costello said. The fund's allocation stands as: Developing market global equities (18.2%), alternative assets (15.4%), cash (15.1%), private equity (14.1%), debt securities (8.9%), infrastructure and timberland (8%), emerging markets ...

Aussie super asset allocation "riskier": Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... alternative investing amongst pension funds, with all the countries studied having doubled their exposure to alternative assets since 2001. According to UBS, Switzerland has moved the needle the furthest in alternative asset allocation within pension ...

Alternative investment manager partners with VC firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... fund vehicles. It has achieved a lifetime blended IIR of 18.4% since its inception in 2012. Auctus invests in alternative assets whose returns are not correlated to equities and bond markets. This includes venture capital, private equity, real estate ...