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WTW to launch dedicated private equity fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
... savers. WTW added that it believes that private equity investments, which historically have offered a high illiquidity premium, provide the greatest opportunity to maximise long-term returns from private markets and are therefore where long-term illiquid ...

Private debt a silver lining of market volatility: QIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023
... bond markets. QIC concluded that private debt is an attractive addition to a diversified portfolio for its illiquidity premium, inflation hedge, and attractive risk adjusted returns. "We believe institutional investors are attracted by its gross yield ...

Instos dial up alternatives allocations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... and sovereign wealth funds. The prospect of higher long-term returns (44%), risk management (43%) and the illiquidity premium (43%) are also driving instos to seek shelter in the asset class. More specifically, private debt is the most popular investment ...

Challenger raising $300m, to add IG bonds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
Challenger is raising up to $300 million to add to its balance sheet and will invest further in investment grade fixed income. The institutional placement of $270 million is priced at $4.89 per share for about 55.2 million new shares representing 9% ...

Fund managers driven to alternatives: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... report said. "Industry funds are playing a slightly different game. These behemoths are able to access an illiquidity premium." "That is, the additional return an investor should earn if the asset isn't readily tradable. The industry funds can take advantage ...

Should super funds segregate pension assets?

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... unquantifiable end, the segregation may help set higher liquidity rules for pension members while harvesting illiquidity premium for accumulation members, and assist in choosing different strategies such as those with long-horizon payoffs for accumulators ...

Kapstream welcomes new portfolio manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... think about other ways of sensibly generating additional returns in fixed income portfolios." "Exploiting the illiquidity premium that exists today in certain assets - such as leveraged loans and real estate debt - is one. Bob has operated at the forefront ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... of that, because at the end of the day, super funds have the ability to take a long-term view and get that 'illiquidity premium.' I think super funds are very well-placed to capitalise on those benefits." The latest edition of Finanical Standard is out ...

How to get private equity returns from listed stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Management who say this nullifies the need to allocate to the asset class unless investors are seeking the illiquidity premium it offers. In their research paper, 'The Components of Private Equity Performance: Implications for Portfolio Choice', Windham's ...

FEATURE: The new financiers of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... Infrastructure assets provide a solution: they are generally large semi - or true monopolies which provide an illiquidity premium for investors who can afford to lock their money away. Transactions like the purchase of Ports Botany, Kembla and Newcastle ...
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