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MBP signs to UNPRI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Fund manager Maple-Brown Abbott has signed on to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) - a decision that will see the firm overhaul its corporate governance and investment strategies going forward. According to a statement ...

New CFO for Superpartners team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
Australia's largest superannuation administrator, Superpartners, has appointed Perry Abbott as chief financial officer. Previously the director, global commercial and operations of Computer Sciences Corporation, Abbott will be spearheading financial ...

Australian managers clock $650bn

Colonial First State, Macquarie and AMP respectively are the three largest Australian fund managers in an industry that grew over 20 per cent to more than $650 billion last year, according to the latest Pensions & Investments and Watson Wyatt study ...

RBC Dexia wins $5.6bn custody mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
... in assets under administration, A$115 billon of which is in Australia. Top local clients include Perpetual, Maple-Brown Abbot and Goldman Sachs JBWere.

Big improvements in Australian corporate governance: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Despite popular perception that Australian companies lag the world on corporate governance (CG), a new study has found a very high awareness and real willingness by companies to constructively engage. The report, "The changing roles and responsibilities ...

CSRF doubles international equity holding

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... invested through emerging markets manager Lazard. The investment will also complement CSRF's investment in the Maple Brown Abbot Asian Investment Trust. The re-weighting is the first step in a wider review of CSRF's $1 billion international equities ...

Print Super terminates mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
Industry fund Print Super has dropped managers Maple-Brown Abbott, Portfolio Partners and Credit Suisse and handed the $340 million in mandates to Tyndall, MIR, ABN AMRO and Generation. Print Super cut Maple-Brown Abbott's $180 million equities mandate ...

Clearview cracks $1.65b mark

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
Clearview's focus on the affluent 55-plus demographic has seen its platform's funds break through $1.65 billion barrier, representing growth of almost $1 billion over the past two years. "We have generated a lot of sales and increased our profile through ...

MIR scores $100m from Catholic Super and Retirement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
MIR has secured a $100 million mandate from the Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) to be invested in the MIR Australian Equities Fund. Existing CSRF Australian equities mandates with Perpetual and Maple-Brown Abbott will be realigned ...

Contrarian managers make a comeback

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
Active managers are falling behind their contrarian counterparts after Australian share managers turned in their worst quarterly performance since 1990, according to Intech Investment Consulting. Intech senior investment analyst, Fraser Murray, said ...