private equity

People & Products

Select Asset Management has appointed Sam Armstrong, co-founder of Quay Partners, considered Australia’s first private equity fund of funds group, as a consultant to its ...

Financial planning

Ex-Macquarie execs launch Next

A new private equity firm created by three breakaway Macquarie Bank staff, Next Capital, has launched onto the alternative assets scene with a $265 million private equity...

Financial planning

Alternative investments to boom

Investments in alternative assets are set to rise over the next two years, driven mainly by the increased use of hedge funds, according to a Russell Investment Group surv...

Financial planning

Constructing a new model

At the recent PortfolioConstruction Conference, US-based Randall Lert, chief portfolio strategist with Russell Investment Group, gave the keynote address. With a worldwid...

Financial planning

Portfolio construction needs overhaul

Traditional methods of portfolio construction should be abandoned, as they cannot cater for some asset classes such as options, have difficulty accounting for global equi...

Funds management

Business booms in private equity world

Forty per cent of venture capitalists have identified high exit price expectations by private equity vendors as the biggest constraint on the industry over the past six m...

Funds management

Macquarie to list new private equity arm

Macquarie Funds Management today launched a new private equity arm which it intends to list on the Australian Stock Exchange, providing investors with exposure to unliste...

Financial planning

Alternatives forecast to shine in 2005

Australian investment managers are predicting a jump in demand for alternative investments in 2005 as investors go in search of opportunities in a slowing equities market...

Financial planning

Private equity goes public to boost appeal

Private equity managers are casting a wider net to attract advisers and retail investors. John Wilkinson looks at a new fund from ING....

Financial planning

Managers launch IPO offers

MacarthurCook Funds Management and WH Souls Pattinson and Company will commence accepting offers from investors this week and next ahead of scheduled public listings of f...

Funds management

ING PEALs off private equity fund

Retail investors have been promised both liquidity and access to a range of private equity schemes when ING Investment Management launches a new listed private equity fun...

Financial planning

Astarra reaches for the stars with new funds

Astarra Funds Management has rolled out its first suite of investment offerings following the group’s unveiling earlier this year after management acquired and re-branded...

People & Products

Hastings appoints new MD as founder departs

Infrastructure and alternative investment manager Hastings Funds Management has announced its director private equity Tim Poole will head the group next year following a ...

Funds management

Advisers upbeat on equities: survey

Almost two-thirds of financial advisers polled in a recent survey remain confident equity markets will continue to rise this year....

Financial planning

Macquarie calls for increase in alternative asset exposure

Investors should increase their exposure to alternative assets from 5 to 20 per cent through a greater spread of investments and in turn boost portfolio diversification, ...