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$1.5 billion given away by PAFs since launch

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... investment performance of these vehicles has also been impressive. PAFs have recorded an average annual return on corpus investments of around 8.5% before costs since establishment, an outperformance of around 1.6% versus a hypothetical diversified portfolio. ...

Standard Life Inv appoints investment director

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
Global fund manager Standard Life Investments has appointed Matthew Newham as investment director. Based in Sydney, he will be responsible for developing Standard Life Investments' wholesale business across Australia and New Zealand. He commenced in ...

Standard Life Inv GARS manager in shock exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... income at the firm, Munro was instrumental in developing the strategy behind one of the UK market's fastest selling investments of recent years. Since its launch in 2006 and under the stewardship of Munro, the GARS fund has swelled to nearly $30 billion ...

Morphic global equities fund reaches $25m

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... followed by Korea, Turkey, the US and China. Minimum investment in the fund is $10,000, with minimum additional investments of $5,000. The responsible entity is Perpetual Trust and the Prime Broker is Merrill Lynch International.

ASIC raises red flag on capital protected products

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... being promoted as having "capital protection" or a "capital guarantee". An ASIC report noted that these are complex investments of which retail investors often have a poor understanding. The report highlights that some of these products are labelled ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... II in the European Union and the Volker Rule in the United States look likely to limit the future private equity investments of some North American and European institutional investors. These regulations are focused on reducing the risk of insolvency ...

RBF shakes up fund with two new mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Tasmania's public sector superannuation fund, Retirement Benefits Fund (RBF) has mandated two new fund managers following an extensive restructure of its $1.1 billion Australian equities portfolio. The new structure has made it possible for the fund ...

Qsuper to champion tailored options

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
A recent move to individually tailor the investments of a Queensland Government super fund is a sign of things to come, said an industry expert. Qsuper, which invests nearly $40 billion dollars worth of retirement savings for Queensland Government employees ...

NZ Super fund kicks out companies

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
Three construction companies have been kicked out of the $20 billion New Zealand Superannuation Fund's investment portfolio for allegedly breaking international laws in Palestine. Listed companies Africa Israel and its subsidiary Danya Cebus, Elbit ...

Challenger AUM swells to $35.2bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... Fidante Partners. The boutique investment firm accounted for inflows of $633 million offsetting outflows from Aligned Investments of $195 million due to a reduction in institutional infrastructure mandates. Challenger Life's AUM was $10.2 billion as ...