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Investment

Superfund opens alternatives fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Superfund Group is launching its Super Alpha Fund 1, providing investors with access to managed futures and market neutral long short strategies that have delivered more than 13 per cent per annum for more than a decade.

Perpetual mortgage funds reopen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Perpetual has reopened applications for three of its $1.7 billion mortgage funds after an 18 day suspension to all its mortgage and income funds.

Super funds back biotech fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), ARIA and Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund are investing in the GBS Venture Partners BioVentures IV fund, which closed with more than $100 million in commitments.

Credit Agricole enters ETF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Credit Agricole has become the next big name to launch a suite of exchange traded funds (ETFs), providing ETFs to the French market and plans to have $20 billion in assets under management in the product in just over three years.

Make or break for PE managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
Private equity managers will have to front up more of their own capital to finance new deals as funding in leveraged buy-outs dry up, according to a Watson Wyatt report.

Mercer invests $35m in commodities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
Mercer's investment arm is tapping into the commodities sector with a $35 million investment mandate in H3's Global Commodities program.

AMP raises $450m

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
AMP Limited strengthens its balance sheet with $450 million in new capital, raising $50 million more than planned, through an institutional placement.

RREEF buys long short real estate stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Deutsche bank's RREEF Alternative Investments bought a minority stake in US based long short real estate investment advisor, Rosen Real Estate Securities LLC.

UBS to launch infra fund next year

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
UBS Global Asset Management plans to launch another international infrastructure fund next year after successfully closing its $2.1 billion International Infrastructure Fund to new investors.

AXA enhances North

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial planners can help their clients protect their investment and contributions for the next five years after AXA Australia enhanced its North product.