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Blue Sky raises $20m for LIC

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Fund Limited recently completed a $20 million capital raise through a one for three non-renounceable entitlement offer. The funds raised will be used to build on the listed investment company's actively managed portfolio of alternative assets across ...

Risk management top worry for asset owners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... perspectives in the current low yield environment. About one quarter of the global asset owners (23%) - which included pension funds, insurance companies and other financial services institutions - listed risk management becoming more complex as the ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... legendary Kerr Neilson. "Kerr asked me if I would come and help him. It was just the two of us with responsibility for four funds. There's no way they'd let you do that today. I'd only been there 12 months." Moore was handed responsibility for the American ...

QIC inks $1bn infrastructure deal with CalPERS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... infrastructure partnership with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the United States. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source, create and manage a portfolio of Asia-Pacific ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... classes. "The hedge fund industry has doubled since the global financial crisis and in 2014 we saw more flows into hedge funds than in any year since 2008," said Rupert Smoker, acting general manager of regulated fiduciary services at Perpetual. "Local ...

Treasury proposes higher regulatory levies for super funds

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... which administers the early release of super on compassionate grounds, from $4.5 million to $4.7 million. However, super funds will now have to pay slightly less to support the Government's SuperStream measures - from $71.7 million to $61.8 million. ...

Australia's super pool now more than $2 trillion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... statistics for each super fund type - corporate, industry, public sector and retail. The publication shows contributions to super funds with more than four members over the March quarter totaled $23.7 billion, up 4.4% on the same period in 2014. Australians ...

ACCC approves Federations Centres and Novion merger

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... Australia in 1994 under the name Gandel Retail Trust, now manages properties with an estimated value of $14 billion. In funds under management terms the combined $21 billion portfolio would rocket the new merged group to Australia's number one property ...

Plan sponsors have fiduciary obligations: SCOTUS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... superannuation market, the US Supreme Court has agreed that 401(k) sponsors have a fiduciary obligation to not just monitor their funds but remove underperforming or excessively expensive investments. The case, known as 'Tibble v Edison', is an application ...

You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... available in June would provide sufficient confirmation that the conditions for raising the target range for the federal funds rate had been satisfied, al-though they generally did not rule out this possibility." There was the same acknowledgement of ...