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Crisis curbs Cuffe charity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Dexia Investor Services Trust and BT Financial Group. The fund is invested with 17 fund managers including Australian equities specialists Cooper Investors and Platypus Asset Management; global credit and cash manager Colonial First State Investments ...

Karara pulls retail strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Australian equities investment boutique, Karara Capital is putting the firm's push into the local retail market on ice and focussing it efforts on gaining more institutional mandates. This news comes after Karara Capital advised Standard & Poor's to ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... incorporating sustainability in investments. The country's super fund industry collectively invest $300 billion in Australian equities and $250 billion in international equities. They can wield a big hand on sustainability if they choose to. Bob Welsh ...

AIST chair set sights on UN PRI board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... tobacco shares and led to the fund introducing a sustainable investment overlay into the fund's $2 billion Australian equities portfolio. Robertson was appointed to the AIST board in 2002 and elected chair in 2007. He was nominated to the UN PRI board ...

PASL to tap alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... Vanguard came out a major winner during that time period, with $140 million and $190 million mandates for Australian equities and international equities respectively. PASL now adopts a 50 per cent Australian equities core and 60 per cent international ...

Local Govt Super overhauls intl eq, Aus equities next

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... equities portfolio to suit a "core and satellite" approach, and it plans to do the same with its $1 billion Australian equities portfolio next. Peter Lambert, the fund's chief executive, said the fund starting implementing the core and satellite approach ...

DNR scores AMP mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... will see the firm distribute its products on the AMP SMA platform. AMP investors are now able to access three Australian equities portfolios - the MAx Incrementus, MAx ProVentus and MAx Virtus funds - and a listed property trust through the AMP platform. ...

VFMC suffers portfolio losses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... Management Corporation (VFMC) took the full brunt of the stockmarket slump when it posted a 28 per cent loss in its Australian equities portfolio for the financial year to 31 March - and a 29 per cent loss in international equities over the same period. ...

Media Super pushes into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The $2 billion Media Super is starting to feed money back into Australian equities, searching for a chief investment officer and finalising a new group insurance contract. Fresh from the merger between PRINT SUPER and JUST SUPER, Ross Martin, chief ...

Future Fund hires more managers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... Murray, chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians. "We have begun to introduce active management into our Australian equities program and continue to explore opportunities in the property and infrastructure sectors. We also have taken up attractive ...