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Aussie fund manager opens New York office

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
A $10 billion Aussie fund manager is ramping up its US expansion with the hire of a local expert and flagging further executive appointments. Bennelong Funds Management's new subsidiary BennBridge US will distribute a number of its existing investment ...

Blue Sky names new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
The former chief executive of Hastings Funds Management was named the new chair of Blue Sky Alternative Investments at an AGM that also saw the announcement of a new stakeholder in the business to accelerate its rebuild. Andrew Day will succeed John ...

Aussies second-most optimistic about retirement: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
Australians are the second-most optimistic about retirement, according to new SSGA research that compared retirement satisfaction levels across eight countries. SSGA's Global Retirement Reality Report polled 9400 people across Australia, US, UK ...

StatePlus general manager departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... a remediation process for clients invested in its Allocated Pension Fund, Investment Funds - Class A, Fixed Term Pension Plan, Personal Retirement Plan and Term Allocated Pension Fund. Clients in these products pay an annual product fee which entitles ...

AustralianSuper secures WestConnex stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... South Wales, the super fund said in a statement. The consortium, which comprises Transurban, AustralianSuper, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Tawreed, made a successful 51% bid for WestConnex. The winning consortium will pay $9.26 billion, with ...

Global pension fund injects $500m into Aussie real estate debt

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... estate debt investment with a $19 billion local asset manager. CPPIB Credit Investments - a subsidiary of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board - injected $500 million into a new Challenger Investment Partners (CIP) fund investing in middle-market ...

Pension fund becomes green lender

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... additional funding to increase its own green holdings. Claiming to be the first pension fund to do so, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) described the issuance of green bonds as a logical next step in its investment-focused approach to ...

Instos partner with Canadian government

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... with the Canadian government and led by Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ) and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), a consortium of institutional investors launched a leadership initiative to address the challenges currently limiting ...

Insto investment committees step away from status quo

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... assessment and set the governing investment principles, Woodhouse said. "We are an investment team that sits within a pension plan but the pension plan itself has cultures embedded into it," Woodhouse added. The investment team participates in project ...

US project to end pension politics

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
An American non-profit - led by a former state treasurer - is demanding pension plan managers stop putting politics before prudent investment. The Institute for Pension Fund Integrity (IPFI) says if a fund manager is investing pension money based on ...