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Alaska fund appoints $310 debt mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
The $40 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation has appointed a $310 million distressed debt mandate to Oaktree Capital Management. According to a media statement, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation board of trustees has hired Oaktree to manage ...

APFC seeks absolute return director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) is looking to hire a director of investments for its absolute return and risk management division. The director will be posted at the APFC offices in Alaska's capital city of Juneau, population approximately ...

Dixon action on Premium gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Alan Dixon, Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services chief executive, said the firm's call to change how Premium Investors operates has the support of many of the listed investment company's shareholders. The financial planning firm requested a general ...

One fund to fight lost super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Eligible rollover fund AUSfund is calling for the creation of a single ERF to combat lost super as "structural efficiencies" and high fees continue to hamper the system. AUSfund, which has HESTA, AustralianSuper, CBUS and HOST-PLUS among its clients ...

Super assets drop to $1.03trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... 2009, their lowest level since December 2006, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Superannuation assets are now down 17 per cent from their peak of $1.24 trillion just over a year ago. Retail funds fell to $286 billion ...

ESI Super appoints NAB as custodian

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The Electricity Supply Industry Superannuation Fund (Queensland) has appointed National Australia Bank as custodian of its invested assets. According to a May newsletter to members, the ESI Super trustee had appointed NAB as its new custodian, and said ...

Health Super reviews mandate line-up

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The $7 billion industry fund Health Super is undergoing an extensive review of all its investment mandates - including sending members of its investment team overseas to appraise the fund's international fund managers. Chris Clausen, chief executive ...

Super without worries

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... their clients under a capital guarantee delivered. According to Rainmaker Data, the AXA North capital guaranteed superannuation option was among the top 10 performers last year. It kept super savings in the black at a time when the index lost nearly ...

Super assets to hit $2 trn by 2015: Deloitte

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
Deloitte predicts assets under the superannuation industry to hit $2 trillion in under six years, with industry funds and SMSFs taking the lion's share of projected post-retirement assets. Deloitte's actuaries, using the firm's superannuation model ...

Plum wins mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... updated regularly and features detailed S&P indices, the All Ordinaries Index updated in real time, some common superannuation/investment questions and answers, investment related articles and online video presentations.