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Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... regime similar to a surgeon's general warning". Gruen said super fund fees in Australia being three times that of UK pension funds means introducing reforms to structurally reduce these fees even by a few basis points would be a worthwhile major microeconomic ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... New York fund is not the only institutional investor hurt by BP's plummeting share price and continuing woes. UK pension funds have a multi-billion dollar exposure to oil giant BP's share price, which has plummeted more than 36 per cent since the oil ...

UK pension lose $6bn on BP oil spill

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
UK pension funds have a multi-billion dollar exposure to oil giant BP's share price, which has plummeted more than 36 per cent since the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The UK-based National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which represents more ...

UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Australian fund managers with international equities expertise should pay attention to three UK pension funds, which are looking to dish out more than $400 million in international shares and index-linked gilts mandates. England's Falkirk Council is ...

BNY Mellon to buy Insight

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... development of its specialist investment capabilities, Insight Investment is now the third largest manager of UK pension funds. Insight Investment was the fastest growing UK institutional asset manager with strong growth in assets under management, revenue ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
UK pension funds and fund managers risk falling foul of their regulators if they don't "mandate" the companies they invest in to focus on long-term shareholder value, according to the Walker Review. The review, an independent audit of corporate governance ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
UK pension funds are increasingly diversifying into hedge funds, global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) and active currency strategies, according to a Mercer survey. The firm's European Asset Allocation Survey found UK pension fund allocations to equity ...

FTSE100 pensions in the red

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... valuable an inflation-protected pension can be." Watson Wyatt found the aggregate funding position of FTSE100 UK pension funds fell by as much $100 billion in three months, the equivalent size of a handful of Australia's largest super funds.

PASF recruits UK pension CIO

... find that Australian superannuation funds are more progressive in terms of investment strategy." He added that UK pension funds have more products to choose from but are comparatively limited as to asset allocation and strategy. "I find that super funds ...

No standards, no deal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
Eight out of ten UK pension funds said they would favour a hedge fund manager who has complied with the Hedge Fund Best Practice Standards, according to a KPMG survey. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the Hedge Fund Working Group (HFWG). ...