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Future Fund boosts alternatives assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... over the course of the 2018 financial year, its annual report shows. New York-based Key Square Capital Management and California-based Clocktower Group were awarded an alternatives mandate to oversee macro-directional strategies. This asset class is ...

Pension fund names new investments lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... largest pension funds will welcome a new chief investment officer, charged with overseeing $510 billion in assets. The California Public Employees' Retirement System has appointed Yu Ben Meng to the role, replacing Ted Eliopoulos. Meng joins from the ...

Pension funds feel the heat on climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... depleted along with the health of the planet. It's high time the industry takes action." Just this week, the state of California passed legislation requiring CalPERS and CalSTRS to report on climate-related financial risks. The funds are expected ...

Industry super fund commits to green bonds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... Local Government Super (LGS), the industry fund for NSW local government employees joined the US state treasuries of California, New Mexico and Rhode Island and the cities of Asheville, San Francisco and King County as founding signatories to the Green ...

Global fund manager expands Australian operations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... research and insights are relevant and impactful to Australian investors." Research Affiliates is based in Newport Beach, California. It was founded by Rob Arnott in 2002 who currently serves as chair.

Asset manager hires insto sales director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... June 2017. Prior to this, she was a vice president of global consultant relations covering the US West Coast based in California. In her new role as Legg Mason's institutional sales director, she will report to business head Andy Sowerby. "Christina ...

Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
Parametric has teamed up with a California-based smart beta and asset allocation specialist to deliver a strategy for Australian institutional investors aiming to top the standard 'black box' hedge fund approach to investing. Systematic Alternative ...

Pension fund CIO departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
The chief investment officer at one of the world's largest pension funds has resigned, citing family reasons. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) announced Ted Eliopoulos will leave at the end of the year, with the search ...

Contango restructure sees reduced headcount

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... two new ETFs in the fixed-interest space in the next 12 months as well as an exchange-traded managed fund (ETMF) via California-based WCM Investment Management." He described the full acquisition of Switzer Asset Management as a key part of CGA's new ...

Chief economist update: This time is different

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... Roubini said today in an interview at the Chicago Board Options Exchange Risk Management Conference in Dana Point, California. A level of "500 is less likely, but there is some possibility you get there." Bloomberg published this sometime in March 2009... ...