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Allianz opens Mid East office and funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
Allianz Global Investors is opening an office in Bahrain and launching two Shariah compliant equity funds to extend its investment and product distribution capabilities to the oil rich countries of the Middle East. The Bahrain based Allianz office will ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... markets, the reported noted Infrastructure Australia should "Liaise more directly with capital markets (that is, superannuation funds) and develop national standardised protocols for public-private partnerships." Regarding priorities, the report said ...

Super funds to raise hedge fund weighting

Australian super funds are predicted to increase their investment allocation to hedge funds by $1 billion over the next two to five years with some switching from the popular fund-of-fund strategy to single strategy and multi-strategy hedge funds. The ...

Ben Davis bags CIMA scholarship

Zenith Investment Partners' Ben Davis is the latest recipient of the BlackRock-sponsored CIMA Scholarship for Retail Managed Funds and Master Trust Research Analysts. BlackRock said the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) Program addresses ...

State Super awards $39m property mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
State Super has awarded Franklin Templeton a $39.2 million global direct property mandate in line with the super fund's strategy to invest in more overseas assets. Martin Drew, State Super chief investment officer, said the mandate is not a typical ...

UK instos back climate change fundie

Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), UK's second largest pension fund, is joining three other institutional investors in investing more than $160 million in Climate Change Capital Group. The USS together with Alliance Trust, SNS REAAL N.V., and ...

Super funds to offer FHSAs

... First Home Savers Accounts (FHSAs), according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), which represents over $450 billion of super fund assets, is the first set of public research from the ...

Clear lines between ratings and research

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Credit rating agencies and financial product research houses play vastly different roles when it comes to assessing the value of an investment, said Property Investment Research (PIR). Last week, the government ordered a review of ratings agencies and ...

Westscheme awards $10m private equity mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
West Australian industry superannuation fund Westscheme has appointed a $10 million private equity mandate to Brandon Capital. The biomedical-centric fund manager was awarded the mandate as Westscheme turned its attention to Australia's burgeoning medical ...

Industry funds have mass appeal: Chant West

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Most Australians should be invested in industry or public sector super funds, said superannuation research firm Chant West. Ian Fryer, Chant West research manager said a lot of Australians did not seek financial advisers for information and industry ...