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PIMCO Australia draws record $30bn FUM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
PIMCO Australia posted its biggest year ever in 2009, with funds under management (FUM) up 36 per cent to $30 billion - but with the higher FUM comes the onus to better navigate sovereign risk. Peter Dorrian, PIMCO's head of global wealth management ...

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
The Australian fund manager behind one of T. Rowe Price's global equities strategy gives 'skin in the game' serious meaning when he poured all of his retirement savings into it. His parents are putting some money, too. Scott Berg, the Canberra-born ...

Asset consultants under fee pressures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Leading asset consultants were grilled about the value they add to super fund portfolios at an industry conference held yesterday. The results? Refreshingly honest. The heads of four asset consultancies - JANA, Frontier, Towers Watson and Sovereign ...

Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Trustees should use their collective muscle to punish investment managers and listed company directors who are robbing investors blind through capital raisings and deals that ultimately destroy shareholder value, said a governance expert. Dean Paatsch ...

Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Eight super funds, including AustralianSuper, are spearheading the move to better assess climate change risks on long-term returns, but the industry, as a whole, is still moving at a glacial pace on all thing carbon, a survey shows. The joint survey ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Jeremy Cooper, head of the Super System Review, estimates super funds can save up to $1 billion in costs by doing little things that add up to mean a lot. Speaking at the Conference of Major Super Funds (CSMF) yesterday, Cooper detailed the 'super stream' ...

Analyse this

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
The Janus Global Research 130/30 fund zoomed past its benchmark by more than 12 per cent last year - gaining 47.7 per cent in the year to December - thanks to its secret weapon: career analysts. Jim Goff, director of research at Janus, a $97 billion ...

On the shoulders of giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
Today's generation of super trustees are reaping the fruits of the Labor movement that started modern super decades ago - now it's their turn to give something back by solving the next set of challenges involving superannuation adequacy, scale and fees. ...

Planners as fiduciaries to drive industry growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Financial planners stand to more than double their average revenue from $169k to $363k and help increase national savings by $117 billion in 15 years, but only if the Government pushes through with industry reforms including a legal requirement that ...

Schroders scoops intl equities mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Schroder Investment Management Limited (Schroders) has won an international equities mandate with WA-based fund GESB. In a press statement, GESB noted it chose Schroders following a review of the core component of its $2.7 billion international equity ...