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Tasplan axes $280m State Street mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... "stronger manager in that area", said Cassidy. Tasplan had also terminated a $10.8 million absolute return investment mandate with Warakiri Asset Management.

Investment mandates to factor climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
Nine out of ten major super funds have changed or plan to review their investment mandates to reflect climate change issues, a survey found. An Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Climate Institute survey found 95 per cent of ...

Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... minimal investment losses topping their reasons for investing with the fund. More recently, the fund won an investment mandate in December last year. "A lot of currency managers delivered last year, minus 30, 40 per cent - which is a big low. We delivered ...

MLC revamps global share strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
MLC has rejigged the firm's global share strategy by replacing Bernstein Value Equities, Alliance Growth Equities and Fortis Investments investment mandates with four new fund managers. Mondrian Investment Partners, Harding Loevner, Sands Capital Management ...

Local funds hold firm on US equities

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
Super funds are holding firm on their exposure to US equities despite the Dow Jones Index slipping below 7,000, its lowest level in more than a decade. Melbourne based investment consultancy, JANA Investment Advisers head of investment outcomes, Ken ...

AMP holds LPT strategy, wins mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... allocated more money to the sector. This may be only the beginning. Redding said the listed property and REIT investment mandate pipeline could be a large as $1 billion. "It depends from institution to institution and what their allocation looks like ...

REST ramps up credit exposure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST) extended the fund's credit exposure by investing $150 million in the Credit Suisse Syndicated Loan fund and $100 million Stone Tower's Offshore Credit fund in December. Damian Hill, REST chief executive ...

Alaska fund drops alternatives mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
The $43 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation has axed two alternative investment mandates in light of the fund's shrinking assets. According to a press statement by the American fund, the board decided "not to move forward with two planned alternative ...

Carthona endorses UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Carthona Agriculture, a green investment consultancy for institutional investors, is incorporating the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment into its services. Charlie Blomfield, managing director of Carthona, said applying these principles ...

No mandate terminations: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
The $7 billion industry fund Hostplus has no intentions of terminating any of its investment mandates despite the losses it suffered on them last year. Sam Sicilia, chief investment officer of Hostplus, said the industry fund is not actively looking ...