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Instos begin litigation against Volkswagen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
A firm with Australian origins is leading the funding for institutional investor litigation against Volkswagen AG, with the first of two suits filed in Germany this week. Bentham Europe, a subsidiary of Australian-founded Bentham Ventures, said global ...

Competitive forces driving US pension fees down

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... added that treasury staff of large listed organisations are conscious of what their employees pay for their corporate pension plan and use it as a point of differentiation when recruiting staff. Rainmaker research shows that within MySuper, the cheapest ...

Another US pension giant exits hedge funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
The trustees of giant US pension plan New York City Employees' Retirement System (NYCERS) have voted to liquidate the fund's hedge fund holdings. Hedge funds represent about 2.8% of NYCER's total US$51.2 billion ($65.9 billion). Hedge funds have faced ...

UK to introduce lifetime ISAs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... including the introduction of auto-enroll pensions in 2012, pension choice in 2014 and significant increases in the other pension plan contribution limits. The UK Lifetime ISA scheme is loosely modeled on similar schemes in the US and benevolent schemes ...

Employer fiduciary responsibility could halve super fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... added that treasury staff of large listed organisations are conscious of what their employees pay for their corporate pension plan and use it as a point of differentiation when recruiting staff. Rainmaker research shows that within MySuper, the cheapest ...

QSuper takes industry leap with retirement incomes

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2016
... allocation of tax. By splitting the assets, QSuper can take advantage of tax concessions that apply to an Allocated Pension Plan. Pennisi said the innovation was made possible by returning funds which had been set aside for future tax payable, to members ...

International pension funds buy London City airport

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... London City airport with an offer of about £2 billion ($3.9 billion). A consortium made up of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), Borealis, AIMCo and Wren House, an infrastructure investment vehicle owned by the sovereign wealth fund of Kuwait, are ...

PROFILE: Mercer chief customer officer Renee McGowan

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... you would be working with a German company that had just acquired a small company and needed to work out how the pension plan worked for these new employees. And literally the following week I would be in Azerbaijan working with a company about how to ...

QIC purchases New York shopping centre

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Giant Australian investment manager QIC has signaled further acquisitions in the US following its joint-venture purchase of Westchester's Ridge Hill retail shopping centre in New York. QIC announced the purchase of a 51% stake in the shopping centre ...

S&P launches long-term sustainability index

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... Index, aimed at tracking companies with the potential to create "long-term value". Developed jointly with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the LTVC index measures sustainability criteria and projected investment outcomes over a long-term horizon. ...