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RBC Dexia ranked number one global custodian, again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
RBC Dexia Investor Services has been ranked the number one global custodian for the third successive year, according to R&M Consultants' 2007 Global Custody Survey. "This has been achieved after merging the two separate investor services divisions of ...

CalPERS pre-empts healthcare funding crisis

... and individuals grapple with the problem of underinsurance and inadequate healthcare savings, the largest public pension fund in the US has come up with a tidy solution packaged in what it calls a "pre-funding" trust fund. The $300 billion California ...

...meanwhile hedge fund sector returns can be synthesised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) said most of the returns for the hedge fund sector can be explained by their asset allocation, meaning it is possible to assemble a synthetic investment strategy to mimic hedge fund sector returns. Paul Brakke, a ...

B&B profits jump with new funds in the pipeline

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
... to its various specialist funds. Green says more funds are in the pipeline, particularly in Europe, where he said pension fund demand for infrastructure investments was strong, and the firm was working on "a number of wholesale fund initiatives". Giles ...

Global pension fund assets hit A$30 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
Global institutional pension fund assets in the 11 major markets have more than doubled over the past decade to reach A$30 trillion, according to Watson Wyatt's Global Pension Assets Study. Roger Urwin, global head of investment consulting at Watson ...

Past performance still a bad future indicator: S&P

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
Standard & Poor's (S&P) latest persistence scorecard for mutual funds in the US continues to show very few funds managed to consistently repeat top-half or top-quartile performance. According to the scorecard over the five years ending December 2006 ...

UK funds earn 8.8 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
Mellon Analytical Solutions (MAS) estimates that the average UK pension fund returned 8.8 per cent for the year ending 31 December 2006, the fourth consecutive calendar year of positive investment performance. Over four years to December, Mellon said ...

Canadian pension funds score 12.9 per cent

Canadian pension funds returned a healthy 12.9 per cent for their CAD$340 billion in funds under management in the year ended 31 December 2006, according to global investor services group RBC Dexia Investor Services. "With many of the world's major ...

Investors want cash from companies

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
Investors want companies to start giving them more cash back, according to a Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers. According to the results from the Merrill Lynch Global and Regional Fund Manager Survey 53 per cent of investors would prefer companies ...

NSW Bookmakers and Perpetual top super tables

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
The latest Rainmaker/SelectingSuper Performance Tables have revealed continuing strong returns for default and Australian shares options for super funds, with NSW Bookmakers topping the default options scorecard and Perpetual leading the pack in Australian ...