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Property portfolio changes at EISS, ISPT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... making key changes to their property portfolio. The industry super fund property manager ISPT has added two US assets in California and North Carolina to its Grosvenor International Property Trust in a deal worth A$204. The trust now exceeds A$900 million ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... quarter that amount at US$235 billion and then Netherland's ABP with US$226 billion. The largest US pension fund, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers), came in at number 5 with US$196 billion, versus its 2000 number one ranking ...

CalPERS pre-empts healthcare funding crisis

... fund in the US has come up with a tidy solution packaged in what it calls a "pre-funding" trust fund. The $300 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) fund has launched the California Employers' Retiree Benefit (CERB) trust fund ...

Australian agribusiness will be China's breadbasket

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
Australian agribusiness produces 40 per cent more than California and this means Australia has a huge opportunity to become the breadbasket of China, according property and agribusiness specialist SAITeysMcMahon (SAITM). Stephen Lynch, head of agribusiness ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
... shortages BHP Billiton is expected to spend about US$800 million to build the Cabrillo Port gas terminal off the coast of California. On a related energy issue, West Australia, which has about 80 per cent of the nation's undeveloped gas reserves, plans ...

Macquarie property fund touts JV in the OC

... new joint venture with Californian property group, Maguire Properties, that they say will drive future growth from California. While MOF's 2005 half year results to 31 December 2005 showed net income to be up 3.4 per cent from the first half, the Maguire ...

Gore says industry should steer by the stars

... from fundamentalism and encouraged the industry to adopt a similar mantra to the rangers in the Wild West times of California. "Just remember, what's right's right, even when no-one's doing it." Gore drove home the message that the best ways to ensure ...

Macquarie LPT buys into booming US retail market

... leased and operated by established retailer 'Mervyn's' Mervyn's is predominately located in the highly prized affluent California market, which is a new region for the Macquarie trust. MDT general manager David Dix says America's changing shopping habits ...

CalPERS boss given marching orders

Sean Harrigan, the President of America's biggest pension fund, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), has been removed from his post. Harrigan lost his job at the $177-billion fund after the state's Personnel Board voted three to ...

US: American venture capitalists eye Australia and NZ

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2004
... venture capital firms will eye 60 Australian and New Zealand companies for investment potential at a conference in California\'s Silicon Valley in October. US venture capitalists were hit hard by the dotcom crash four years ago, but Silicon Valley investors ...