SIMON MUMME

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Simon Mumme is the editor of Investment Magazine, the market leading monthly publication which focuses on the Australian institutional investment industry. He has been writing about funds management for the past four years, and graduated from the University of Queensland in 2006 with a Master of Journalism.

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…as Gulf funds buoyant on BP

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) from the Gulf swooped in to buy stakes in troubled financial institutions during the financial crisis – now there is speculation they are sizing up stakes in BP as the oil giant seeks to raise capital following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Investors from the Middle East were running a ruler over […]

SIMON MUMMEJuly 7, 2010

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Chinese whisper over CIC turf wars

The $300 billion China Investment Corporation (CIC) aims to sidestep official barriers to investing in the US by offloading its stakes in home-country banks. The proposal would see the sovereign wealth fund (SWF) relinquish responsibility for the Chinese government’s majority stakes in the country’s largest banks, such as Bank of China, the Financial Times reported. […]

SIMON MUMMEJuly 7, 2010

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Fund managers want to be fiduciaries too

With less institutional flows forecast in the next few years, asset managers will need to implement a convincing “fiduciary overlay” to win business from large investors.

SIMON MUMMEJuly 3, 2010

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Three strategies to beat the not-so-good future: GMO

There are only two asset classes really worth investing in for the “seven lean years” ahead, according to Jeremy Grantham (pictured), co-founder and strategist at famously bearish funds manager GMO.

SIMON MUMMEJune 15, 2010

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Found: the “missing link” in the equity risk premium puzzle

As pension funds look at new ways to assess their asset allocation, including the adoption of a risk-premia approach, Simon Mumme delves into the latest thinking on whether markets reward investors for the big swings and roundabouts.

SIMON MUMMEJune 9, 2010

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The new AA: funds hedging for “tail whippings”

The shock of asset class correlations going to one during the global crisis has prompted new ways to look at asset allocation among institutional investors and managers, which have started to drill down into the risk factors driving markets.

SIMON MUMMEJune 1, 2010

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