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Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Fund, with funds under management of $858 billion. The Netherlands' ABP came in third with $415 billion, followed by South Korea's National Pension fund, at $406 billion. The report showed the continued demise of defined benefits schemes, with 66.7% ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... Shanghai dropped 0.74 per cent, or 16.41 points, to 2,206.47. Seoul ended flat, edging up 0.86 points to 2,063.22 after South Korea's central bank cut interest rates for the first time in 15 months, under growing government pressure including warnings ...

Australia's unit trust dictum is killing the funds industry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... global funds managers by allowing fund managers to use UCITs, Cayman structures or other legal frameworks. Indeed South Korea allows fund managers to use six different structures. The ability for Australian fund managers to offer investment products ...

Korean military fund puts $40m in Aussie infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
South Korea's $8.5 billion Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has become the first overseas investor to invest in industry super investment vehicle The Infrastructure Fund. As well as being the only non-Australian stakeholder in The Infrastructure ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... emerging market economies may well be included in developed market indices. A case has already been made for Taiwan and South Korea to be classed as developed economies. Forster said Principal is considering ways for it to grant access to frontier markets ...

FSC leads Asia Funds Passport delegation to Korea

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
The Financial Services Council is today leading a delegation of fund managers to South Korea to discuss the Asian Region Funds Passport (ARFP) and the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA) with Korean CEOs and officials. Parliamentary Secretary ...

APEC releases Asian Funds Passport discussion paper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... on the Asia Region Funds Passport. The paper was authored by the passport working group, which includes Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It discusses the objectives of the passport, conditions for participation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... 22,151.06, but Shanghai slipped 0.41 per cent, or 8.41 points, to 2,033.31. Investors were unmoved by news that North and South Korea had traded live artillery fire across their disputed maritime border on Monday, forcing South Korean islanders to take ...

Asia Funds Passport on shaky ground

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... its first steps towards a workable funds passport by signing aA statement of intent with New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea. The Financial Services Council (FSC) is a vocal supporter of the government's bid to ease the export of financial services ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... China got some major Asian countries - including Australia - in its bag. Bloomberg reported on 19 February that, "South Korea is moving closer to seeking the first direct trading between the won and the yuan following calls within the ruling Saenuri ...