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Swedish pension lessons for Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... Australia would still be unlikely to dip below the 100 basis point level. This last point highlights that Australia's pension fund costs may be more driven by systemic and operational factors like the low take-up of electronic transactions, poor integration ...

US pension fund to settle suit for $930m

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
The largest public pension fund in the US fires a warning shot against companies with lousy corporate governance when it demanded a company it invests in to re-write its CG policy and pay a $930 million cheque for wrongful share trading. The $244 billion ...

FTSE100 pensions in the red

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
Watson Wyatt found FTSE100 companies' pension funds turned a combined $48 billion surplus a month ago into a $16.5 billion deficit last month due to the double whammy of stock market falls and high inflation. Rashpal Bhabra, Watson Wyatt head of corporate ...

PASF recruits UK pension CIO

... a bigger mark in superannuation land after appointing the former chief investment officer of a $9 billion-plus UK pension fund, Paul Kessell, as investment manager. PASF, which has relatively kept below the radar in industry fund land has announced a ...

ING buys into Turkish pension market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Global Dutch financial institution ING Group purchased Turkey's first and only voluntary pension fund, Oyak Emeklilik for $180 million to tap into the country's pension market. Previously owned by OYAK Group and established in 2003, Oyak Emeklilik has ...

Pension alternatives investments top $860bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... through absolute return strategies," said Roger Urwin, Watson Wyatt global head of investment consulting. "Changing pension fund needs and globalisation are forcing many asset management firms to innovate and refocus; large firms, with more alternatives ...

TRS pumps $1.26bn into PE

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... special situations (5 percent to 20 percent) sub-sectors of private equity. According to a statement by TRS, the pension fund had invested $2.3 billion in private equity or 5.8 percent of the total portfolio as of the end of March this year. Private ...

UN PRI assets reach $15tr

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
The number of signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) doubled in one year to 381 firms representing approximately $14.8 trillion in assets under management. At the UN PRI's annual conference, the PRI Report on ...

Russell launches integrated super banking account

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... networks, such as BT Super For Life. Russell said the product enables members to have the flexibility to access their pension fund and other savings including pension cheques, direct share dividends and personal cheques via one of the bank's ATMs. Russell ...

CalPERS may lose $947 million

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... bankruptcy protection. "CalPERS will represent the interests of the CalPERS fund in the bankruptcy process," the pension fund said in a statement. "LandSource is one of thousands of investments of CalPERS, and it does not represent a large portion of ...