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Canadian pensions pounce on Aus toll road firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
The Canada Pension Plan and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, two of the biggest pension plans in Canada, set its sights on Australian-based toll road owner and operator group, Transurban. Australia's super fund infrastructure asset strategy appears to ...

Canadian pensions stage Q3 recovery

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Canadian pensions have bounced back in the third quarter of this year, with local bonds and global shares the major contributors to the recovery. According to a RBC Dexia Investor Services survey, which monitors Canadian pension plans and money managers ...

Canada plan in talks to buy Livingston

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has entered a consortium with private equity firm Sterling Partners to buy Livingston International Income Fund. According to Livingston's website, the firm - through its operating subsidiaries - is Canada's ...

Mercer urges STP implementation

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Mercer has called for UK defined contribution pension plan trustees to adopt straight through processing (STP) systems or risk significant financial pain. STP involves the automation of communication about investment transactions between administrators ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... company news, Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group holds a security holder meeting for a vote on the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's proposal to take control of the company. Allied Brands Ltd and Iatia Ltd hold extraordinary general meetings ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The UK's pension regulator should investigate the funding plans of companies where deficit repayments will take more than 15 years, rather than the current ten, said a key industry body. According to an "eight point action plan" by UK business industry ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
London-based fund of hedge fund manager Liongate Capital Management has won over $1 billion in mandates since the start of the GFC - and the firm is now seeking new wins in the Aussie institutional market. While most fund of hedge fund managers suffer ...

US pension deficit shrinks

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... must implement an effective governance structure to ensure the pension can execute changes quickly. He said some pension plan sponsors are increasingly outsourcing some of the implementation decisions once an effective strategy has been developed.

US employees flee pension plans

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Up to 60 per cent of US companies are seeing their employees postpone retirement plans and reduce pension plan participation. Dissaffected employees are also increasing hardship withdrawals, according to a new Towers Perrin survey. US employees are ...

US pensions fight for trust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... retirement benefits may decrease diversification and add risk to the plans," noted a statement by CalPERS. The public pension plan group also calls for the establishment of an independent entity that can monitor the world markets for the potential for ...