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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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