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...The deal is the latest sign that Australian pension funds, called superannuation funds, are looking overseas and towards private assets for growth....
...in the post-GFC era” (while hedge funds and real estate “significantly” hurt returns)....
...Republican state treasurers have withdrawn more than $4bn of government pension and treasury funds from the company on the grounds that it “boycotts” fossil fuel....
...The office real estate market is facing a triple whammy, writes deputy editor Patrick Jenkins....
...“Pension funds like to see something that’s reasonably well established,” said Martin....
...service that Golub and Hallac were building....
...The powerful coal industry retains strong support from the government and the Murdoch-owned press is often hostile to environmental reforms but pressure is building on local pension funds and asset managers...
...It is sad to see all those fresh-faced and eager “distressed asset managers” marching forth with cash-stuffed backpacks through the cheering throngs of pension sponsors, sovereign wealth funds and family...
...veal and sautéed potatoes £10 Total (inc service) £42 Now 47, he has been an MP for nearly 20 years, having won his seat in a by-election in 2000....
...Mr Conway, who previously led the fund manager’s institutional client business group, will be charged with building out BlackRock’s alternatives business....
...Private equity accounts for most of it, but direct lending funds, real estate and infrastructure are also hot destinations for investors....
...fund....
...Say you bought 1,000 shares in Apple Inc in July 1981, when they were worth as little as 21 cents each, costing you $210....
...Many of the renowned families of New York real estate were giving ground to companies such as Brookfield, Blackstone and The Related Companies, backed by pensions, endowments and sovereign wealth funds looking...
...Among buildings that have been completed are two 28-storey towers housing about 8,000 employees of various companies, including Tata Consultancy Services and Oracle....
...UK asset managers Legal & General Investment Management, M&G Investments and Oxford Properties, the real estate arm of a $72bn Canadian pension fund, are among the investors piling in....
...Berlin’s Sony Centre has been acquired for close to €1.1bn by investors led by Oxford Properties, the real estate arm of a Canadian pension fund, in one of the largest deals in the European property market...
...“At the moment, insurance companies and pension funds cannot invest in real estate in China,” he says. “Those restrictions are starting to lift.”...
...Mr Dinning previously worked in a similar role at Coal Pension Trustees, the £20bn coal industry pension scheme....
...It also argues that mutual funds represent less than a fifth of all assets invested globally, while other large investors, such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, are not subject to transparency...
...PRIN London is building a mosaic of “Rustiles” — Jesmonite tiles with an oxidised metal-dust surface....
...Institutional funds, such as the Zurich product, did not face the same level of withdrawal requests, according to the pension consultants Hymans Robertson....
...That bid is led by GLP’s chief executive Ming Mei who is working with a consortium that includes a who’s who of China Inc: Fang Fenglei, a director of GLP, along with funds associated with Alibaba’s Jack...
...Equity market investors have meanwhile sold off real estate investment trusts, especially those exposed to the London office market, which is expected to suffer from financial services companies relocating...
...Algos v quants A rising fund manager star at T Rowe Price predicts that computers will become increasingly important in asset management, supplanting the industry’s traditional backbone of human stock pickers...
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