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NZ Super to look for green mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Australian fund managers looking for mandates from the $16.4 billion NZ Super Fund may soon have to display how they input environmental, social and governance factors in their strategies as the fund pushes ESG considerations higher on its priority ...

Costello to leave Future Fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Paul Costello, the first ever employee of the Future Fund and general manager since its inception in 2006, is set to leave Australia's largest investment fund for pastures new, it was revealed late yesterday. "I am proud to have led the agency through ...

LGsuper and City Super in merger talks

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Queensland government funds LGsuper and City Super are considering a merger to create a $5 billion-plus fund with over 90,000 members. LGsuper and City Super announced today they have agreed in-principle to merge the two funds. The merger is subject ...

452 Capital mandates at risk

RUTH LIEW AND JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
The impending departure of three senior executives from boutique fund manager 452 Capital sent shockwaves through the investment community late yesterday, with super funds heavily exposed to the manager reconsidering their investment mandates. In a ...

Acadian strategy gains super and pension mandates

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... funds under management and tipped over the $1 billion mark this year after attracting an Australian and Dutch investment mandate. AUSCOAL Super gave the fund manager a $97.5 million investment mandate and earlier this year Dutch pension fund Stichting ...

Infrastructure mandates tough for super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... reasonable prospects for return, and won't be heavily debt ridden." Asset Super used to have an infrastructure investment mandate with AMP, which has since been terminated. Westscheme and MTAA Super Fund, along with AMP, are examples of institutional ...

AvSuper selects Hastings and Invesco

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... Pacific Airports Corporation and UK-based South East Water. AvSuper has an existing global listed infrastructure investment mandate with RARE Infrastructure. JANA Investment Advisers acts as the fund's asset consultant and has worked closely with the ...

RARE Infra wins $1.4bn in mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... infrastructure mandate in January this year. It is not known when the Future Fund gave the fund manager an undisclosed investment mandate this year. AvSuper, Canada's Corporate Pension Plan, Russell OpenWorld and van Eyk Blueprint all awarded RARE Infrastructure ...

Investec wins $150m AMP Cap mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... Management has gained a $150 million mandate from AMP Capital Investors to invest in emerging markets. The investment mandate was invested through AMP Capital's Future Directions multi-manager product to Investec's 4Factor Emerging Markets strategy. ...

ING Australia reviews ING IM mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
ING Australia (INGA) is reviewing the firm's investment mandates with ING Investment Management (ING IM) as part of a broader asset management strategy review following the ANZ/INGA merger. Stewart Brentnall, chief investment officer at ING Australia ...