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CalPERS awards Citi $28bn in securities lending assets

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
A securities lending auction of US$43 billion in US equities for the California Public Employees' Retirement System has awarded Citi exclusive borrowing access to US$28 billion of the assets. The auction was conducted in the by eSecLending, a global ...

IFM wins legalsuper Aus equities mandate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... deliver higher net benefit to our members," said legalsuper, chief executive, Andrew Proebstl. Just last week, the California State Teachers' Retirement System ( CalSTRS ) selected IFM to manage an infrastructure mandate of up to $500 million to invest ...

IFM wins $500m CalSTRS mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... awarded a $500 million mandate to Australian manager, IFM, to gain exposure to the global infrastructure market. The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has selected Industry Funds Management (IFM) to manage an infrastructure mandate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... component of its Nucleus 5 devices to cost up to $150 million. Cochlear shares were 2.64 per cent lower at $53.06. Two huge California pension funds say they will vote against the re-election of Rupert Murdoch to the board of his media conglomerate News ...

Bulls see red

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... this to the world during an interview at the Chicago Board Options Exchange Risk Management Conference in Dana Point, California on 9 March 2009. Yes, the exact date that the S&P 500 index bottomed! And three months before the US recession officially ...

Planning industry unified on commissions: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... valuable as it is about growing the market for financial planning advice." Held from September 14-15 in San Diego, California, the Major Firms Symposium includes sessions on regulatory issues, practice management, and the current state of the industr ...

US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... Members of Congress to act immediately on US debt or risk long term damage to the country's retirement savings. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) released a statement including a letter addressed to Obama and the members of ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... director of the Institute of International Finance and Barry Eichengreen, economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Darn their goes my five minutes of fame! The Wall Street Journal also led me to a paper written by Lawrence Goodman ...

Financial services targeted for data theft

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... have to be SMS approved for the client to remain resilient against Zeus attack. Imperva, which has its headquarters in California and its research team in Israel, provides data protection solutions for businesses. "We protect the structural data of the ...

Future Fund dabbles in India

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... assets under management issued the mandate to Bessemer some time in the March quarter of this year. Rob Chandra, a California-based partner at Bessemer, said he was delighted to have the Future Fund join as investor in its latest fund. "Our focus is ...