Mezzanine finance as an investment opportunity is looking attractive for super funds due to continued difficulties in the bank finance market. The risks, returns and challenges of mezzanine finance are to be discussed at a special one-day seminar in Melbourne July 29.
In mid-2008, three months after exiting the deputy head of Australian equities and senior small-cap Australian equities roles at Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Michael Dee and Paul Xavier hatched a long-held plan to put capital to work in five sectors displaying ‘long-term structural growth’.
There will be bear-market rallies in the near term, but even if markets have bottomed, that does not mean they are going in only one direction from here, according to Mark O’Brien, CIO of AMP Capital Investors.
The weight of money in the markets generally as well as structural changes in the way super funds are approaching their asset allocation are combining to ring warning bells, the first of the Fund Executives Association Ltd June briefings was told yesterday.
The weight of money in the markets generally as well as structural changes in the way super funds are approaching their asset allocation are combining to ring warning bells, the first of the Fund Executives Association Ltd June briefings was told yesterday.