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Henderson wins $275m fixed income mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
London-based Henderson Global Investors has won a $275.2 million fixed income mandate from Cheshire County Council as administering authority for the Cheshire Pension Fund. According to a statement by HGI, the assets will be invested in the recently ...

APFC appoints $782m infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The $38.8 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has pumped $521 million and $261 million into two infrastructure funds by Goldman Sachs and Alinda Capital Partners. The APFC board poured the investments into the new Goldman Sachs Institutional ...

REST terminates GMO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... had a little bit of concern there," said Hill. Some of these changes include the departure of ex-GMO quantitative managers Max Cappetta and Anthony Corr, who left to form their own boutique, Continuum Capital Management, with former MIR quant director ...

Introducing the Burnie Pub PDS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... is a three-part series booklet addressing the issues members face based on their age and lifecycle stages. Virgin Super and max super are also among super fund providers that have published PDSs that cuts out a lot of the finance vernacular. "Shorter ...

Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
US fund managers drive better governance in the companies they invest in by using proxy votes to block board decisions that are not in the shareholder's best interest, a study found. The Investment Company Institute (ICI) analysed more than 3.5 million ...

Back testing not enough

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
Historical back-testing can only get you so far - it's time to free investment managers to do what they do best when it comes to harvesting better returns. Brian Parker, investment strategist at MLC Investment Management, said the overriding aim of ...

Slash fees with national default fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
A researcher from APRA has outlined how the government could set up a single-option indexed default super fund to receive SG contributions that could operate at fee levels as low as 10 basis points. Wilson Sy, a researcher at the Australian Prudential ...

Plato wins OptiMix mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Boutique fund manager Plato Investment Management has been appointed as an OptiMix Australian Equities manager. "[Plato's] addition to the OptiMix Wholesale Australian shares portfolio will improve the alpha potential and the use of short positions ...

Perpetual Series 3 still tax effective

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
Perpetual clarified the tax effectiveness of its Protected Investments - Series 3 after the federal government changed the interest rate deductibility of capital protected borrowings. The firm's Protected Investments - Series 3 allows investors to gear ...

AIG Life promotes two

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
AIG Life has promoted Damien Green to general manager of insurance and Damien Mu to head of group insurance. Mu previously worked as national client development manager at AIG Life and replaces Green who previously held the position. Meanwhile, Green ...