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SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
State Street Global Advisors has been selected by UK-based Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to manage a $200 million hedge fund replication mandate. The Hedge Fund Beta Replication Strategy replicates the average performance of a group of hedge ...

St George appoints margin lending head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... size and earnings from that, but in the medium term we expect it to grow very strongly," he said. Developing a superannuation gearing product would be the division's focus in the coming months, said Curry. He said investor education also would remain ...

Property before super: IPSOS

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... house IPSOS executive director Nicole Torkar said 79 per cent of Australians knew very little or nothing of their superannuation funds - fuelling sentiment that bricks and mortar are a more lucrative investment compared to other options. "A lot of Australians ...

Scrap $5bn super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... getting scale&You don't need to be big to be successful," he said. Commenting on the role of rating agencies in the superannuation sector, Dunnin called for trustees to have a clear direction of their fund's management strategies, and said it was then ...

ITG focuses on after-tax benchmarks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... in a significantly lower tax charge and therefore, deliver a greater real return on the shares," said Castro. "Superannuation schemes, trustees, administrators and multi-managers have available to them a transparent, standardised benchmark against which ...

Choice system to cost $90m: CitiStreet

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... align itself with the Government to develop a solution enabling productive money and data exchange across the whole superannuation system. A "Super Clearing House" was proposed by the Federal Labor Party in mid 2006 and is currently on the agenda of ...

MTAA awards $450m quant mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
MTAA Super has awarded a $450 million mandate to BlackRock Investment Management to run a quantitative, tax-aware Australian equities portfolio. Maurice O'Shannassy, BlackRock managing director, said a tax-conscious portfolio could make a substantial ...

BT Financial scraps opt-out cover

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... any offer being made to them and that they consciously accept any change to their insurance profile." He said the superannuation industry must do more to address member understanding of their insurance cover and the benefits of accessing the cover within ...

Double digit days are over

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... predict that returns this year are more likely to be around the 8 per cent mark. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) yesterday, AMP Capital head of investment strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver, said the double digit ...

Governance before crisis

... fund trustees should avoid at all costs, says a corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Brisbane yesterday, University of Sydney academic Mike Rafferty said governance issues tended to emerge when ...