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Vision pumps $450m into Millennium Global

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... strategy," said Jean Thouvenin, head of marketing at MGI. "Australia is one of the fastest growing and most sophisticated pension fund markets in the world, with investments highly diversified internationally and the consequent need for managing underlying ...

Super funds are not 'blameless'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... crisis and reassess their governance standards instead of blaming other firms, according to Donald MacDonald, BT Pension Fund trustee and UK PRI chair. Speaking at the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) conference yesterday, MacDonald ...

CalPERS halts lending to big four

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... it's 'business as usual' for its $47 billion securities lending program. No other companies whose shares are in the pension fund's public stock portfolio are affected, noted the statement. CalPERS launched its securities lending program in the early ...

AIG Australia insulated from US woes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... crisis is sparked by the mega insurer being Australia's largest super fund group insurer with major clients including pension fund and platform heavy weights ARIA, REST, GESB and BT. According to the Rainmaker super fund Benchmarking Report analysis ...

Templeton opens SWF arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
Franklin Templeton Investments is expanding its services to the $13 trillion sovereign wealth fund (SWF) sector. The firm promoted David Smart as global head of sovereign wealth and supranationals. Smart will be based in the firm's London office and ...

Europe pension assets on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... Another trend that was highlighted in the report was an update on two of Europe's power funds - the Norway's Government Pension Fund - Global, and the Dutch civil service pension fund ABP. "The Norwegian petroleum fund that has been deployed as a financing ...

Aussie super funds lead pension growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Australia's retirement funds including State Super, Australian Super, UniSuper and the Future Fund are some of the fastest growing in the world, rising at an average compound annual growth rate of 17 per cent. The Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt ...

CARE Super closes cap guaranteed option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
CARE Super is suspending its capital guaranteed option after the AMP Capital Guaranteed Fund closed its doors to new investments. The capital guaranteed option in both the CARE industry and pension funds were shut last Friday. According to a statement ...

US and Aus open equities borders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
Local investors are set to benefit from a new agreement between US and Australian regulators that may allow brokers from both regions to only comply with their home country regulation when trading Australian or US equities. The groundbreaking deal could ...

CalPERS unveils infrastructure plan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
America's largest pension fund California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is rolling out a two-year specialised investment strategy for infrastructure - heralding its interest in increased portfolio diversity. According to a statement ...