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S&P hits back on CalPERS' claims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... house practiced a "dual rating system" which placed municipalities to a higher standard than corporate issuers. US pension fund giant CalPERS recently flagged the current system of dual-rating of municipal bonds as "unfair" and misleading to investors ...

Pension funds milk green trends

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
As inflows into sustainable investing continue to break records, a leading consulting firm has recommended that pension funds should start drawing up detailed policies to capture the sector's returns. According to research by Lipper FERI, inflows into ...

CalPERS calls for ratings overhaul

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The US' largest pension fund, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), has backed efforts to push rating houses Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poor's to reform their methods for rating government-issued bonds. According to a statement ...

Governance before crisis

Corporate governance often comes into the spotlight following a crisis - a trap that super fund trustees should avoid at all costs, says a corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Brisbane yesterday ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... International Airport Ltd said on Friday that 58 percent of shareholders had voted in favour of a bid by a Canadian state pension fund to acquire a 40 per cent stake in the airport. NEW YORK - Shares of Bear Stearns Cos plunged Thursday amid worries ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... Advisors LLC and Quotient Investors, a manager in CalPERS' Management Development Program (MDP). California's largest pension fund had previously invested $161.5 million in another emerging manager fund-of-funds, FIS Group, and $215.3 million with Redwood ...

Macquarie buys Allegiance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Macquarie Bank's Funds Management Group (MFMG) has deepened its roots in the US funds management market by scooping up California-based fixed income fund manager, Allegiance Investment Management. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed ...

Attack of the hedge clones

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
The global hedge fund industry is in for a major makeover as hedge fund replication tools or "clones" permeate through the sector to deliver returns at the fraction of traditional costs. Banking giant Goldman Sachs spearheaded the cloning phenomenon ...

Good governance pays 18pc more

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... Reflecting this growing concern, an IPE news report found one of the UK's largest pension funds, British Railway Pension Fund, demanded Japanese companies improve their corporate governance.

Regulator clamps down on conflicts of interest

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
A UK pension fund regulator has drafted a report to assist trustees in reviewing governance arrangements and eliminate any potential conflict of interest. The report was drafted after a review of UK pension funds identified potential conflicts of interest ...