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New hires in AuSuper's internal team

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
AustralianSuper has beefed up its internal investment team with four new hires, who will oversee Australian equities, infrastructure, property and investment operations at the $55 billion industry super fund. The fund said that the four senior investment ...

CareSuper to shed mandates

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
At least $3.4 billion worth of investment mandates will be evaluated by CareSuper when it decides which ones it no longer needs after a recent merger. In October this year industry funds CareSuper and Asset Super completed a tie-up which led to the ...

Christian Super appoints State Street as custodian

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... custodian, it was announced today. State Street will provide fund accounting, unit pricing, taxation services, investment mandate monitoring and investment analytics. Peter Murphy, chief executive of Christian Super - a not-for-profit industry superannuation ...

Super funds urged to include macro-level ESG principles

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... institutional clients have requested Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) cognisance form part of their investment mandate," said Solaris ESG analyst Lisa Domagala. Solaris, a United Nations Principles of Responsible Investments (UN PRI) signatory ...

Aus Super hands Orion mandate to Fidelity

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... mandate to Fidelity's Australian equities fund manager, Paul Taylor. Fidelity's win comes in the midst of an investment mandate drought. Rainmaker data shows that the number of mandates changing hands is down, with 500 swaps in the year up to 31 March ...

Bentham attracts new super mandates

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
Fidante Partners' boutique, Bentham Asset Management has secured four new super fund mandates worth over $120 million in the last quarter. The new investment mandates for the Bentham Syndicated Loan Fund were received from Intrust Super ($20 million) ...

Sigma wins $100m super fund mandate

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
Boutique Australian equities manager, Sigma Funds Management, has been awarded a new investment mandate by an Australian super fund, worth in excess of $100 million. The mandate aims to capitalise on Sigma's small companies' strategy which outperformed ...

GESB awards $2.3bn in bond mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
WA super provider GESB has awarded four global bond investment mandates to Wellington Management Company LLP, Franklin Templeton Investments Australia Ltd and PIMCO Australia Pty Limited, worth a total of $2.3bn. The mandates will cover two global bond ...

In superannuation, bigger can be better but not always

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
With Australia's biggest super fund, AustralianSuper, announcing yet another merger, this time with the public sector industry fund AGEST, the question is whether super funds are merging for the benefit of their members or to build financial empires. ...

Hunter Hall names Lowenstein replacement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... position, Walsh will be responsible for fund compliance in portfolio construction and risk rules, as well as other investment mandate requirements.