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September quarter sees 2.1 per cent growth in unitised wholesale funds

Plan for Life Actuaries and Researchers have revealed a 2.1 per cent rise in all unitised wholesale funds in their analysis of the 2004 September quarter. The result brings the level of funds under management in wholesale funds to $205.6 billion representing ...

CalPERS boss given marching orders

Sean Harrigan, the President of America's biggest pension fund, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), has been removed from his post. Harrigan lost his job at the $177-billion fund after the state's Personnel Board voted three to ...

Risk-return numbers fail to tell the story

The WM Company, the European performance arm of State Street, has released research finding which states information ratios have little predictive value. The group used data from between 1995 and 2003 for 2000 portfolios of UK pension funds equities ...

Leading US companies in pension funding crisis; CSFB

US companies listed on the S&P-500 are facing their worst pension funding crisis in 10 years, looking at a combined US$245 billion shortfall by the end of the year, Credit Suisse First Boston said last week. According to David Zion at CSFB, meager investment ...

Aust funds underexposed to small caps: Franklin Templeton

Australian investment managers are devoting too little resources to global small cap equities and missing investment opportunities as a result, Franklin Templeton Institutional said today. According to a recent survey, 25% of major Australian fund managers ...

Kommunalbanken prices $200 mln three year Kangaroo issue

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2004
... issue. Kommunalbanken AS is 80% owned by the Norwegian Central Government and 20% owned by Norway\'s largest municipal pension fund, KLP. It is rated Aaa stable by Moody\'s Investors Service and AAA stable by Standard and Poor\'s.

EU needs cross-border fund pooling: IMA

The UK's Investment Management Association (IMA) issued a report overnight outlining the results of a survey of the developments in the European single market for asset management during 2003/04. The report found the requirement for funds to be registered ...

UK pension funds to dump equity: IMA

A survey in the UK conducted by the Investment Management Association (IMA) has found UK pension funds could shift as much as stg150 billion away from the UK equity markets during the next three years. The report said the current 56% assets held by ...

Macquarie Bank cuts commitment to MEAP fund

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2003
... in AltaLink, owner of North America's first independent electricity transmission network in Alberta, Canada. The pension fund joined some other Canadian pension funds - including British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and New Brunswick Investment ...

Low income earners can boost retirement nest eggs: super funds

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2003
Lower income earners could retire with up to 70 per cent more in their pension funds if they took advantage of new superannuation rules, super funds said yesterday. Independent senators last night backed the government reforms following a stalemate ...