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ORIX acquires 90% of Robeco from Rabobank

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Japanese-based financial services group ORIX Corporation announced today the acquisition of 90.01 per cent of the equities in Robeco from Rabobank for around $2.5 billion. Robeco is a mid-sized global asset manager based in the Netherlands that manages ...

Australia becomes fourth largest pension pool

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
Australia now has the world's fourth largest pension pool after superannuation assets relative to GDP rose to 101% in 2012, according to a Towers Watson report. According to the Towers Watson Global Pension Assets Study, Australian superannuation assets ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
So what else is new? Up one day, down the next. Optimism that US will jump over the cliff one day, plunge into it the next. Hopeful that Greece would get another euro cent dropped into its begging bowl one day (and from a broader perspective the euro ...

A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Returns without volatility, you're not dreamin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
High returns associated with high volatility causes many investors to target the latter to achieve the former, but Netherlands fund manager Robeco said a well structured low volatility strategy can achieve returns that are as attractive. Pim van Vliet ...

NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
A federal court judge ruled yesterday that 13 NSW councils were entitled to compensation from ratings agency Standard & Poor's, investment bank ABN Amro and Local Government Financial Services (LGFS). The councils lost $16 million, or 93% of their capital ...

Australia ranks third in Global Pensions

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
The 2012 Mercer Global Pension Index has shown that Australia has come in third place out of 18 countries, beating the likes of Switzerland, Canada and the UK. The index which covers over half of the world's population has found that Australia's retirement ...

Key local appointment for Robeco

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
Netherlands-based asset management firm, Robeco, recently announced the appointment of Brett Penprase as senior sales executive in Sydney. Penprase will focus on driving institutional and wholesale sales in Australia along with bringing a high-quality ...

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... in Focus report also noted that these top five performers are among the smallest nations by population in the OECD. Netherland and Iceland were also found to have pension systems that relative to their GDPs are the biggest in the world. Australia's superannuation ...

15 Aus super funds in Top 300

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
Assets held by Australian super funds grew faster than any other country's during the five-year period to the end of 2011, said research by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. Growth in assets of Australian funds in the Top 300 funds globally ...