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Infrastructure wins pension funds votes

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... Dutch PGGM, Finnish VER. The majority of pension fund investments are through infrastructure funds. However, some bigger Canadian and Dutch pension plans have started to invest directly. They are often co-investors with specialist funds, and thereby ...

Pascoe shares VFMC strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... crisis at this year's IMCA conference. Pascoe, an ex-Goldman Sachs managing director, took over the reins of VFMC from Canadian investment management expert Leo de Bever in September. He will speak about his experience of spearheading the fund's investment ...

Optimum hires RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Canadian fixed income manager Optimum Asset Management has appointed RBC Dexia Investor Services to provide custody, fund valuation and unitholder recordkeeping services. According to a statement by RBC Dexia, Optimum is engaging the custodian to service ...

Credit Suisse nabs AMF stake

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... Management Finance Corp. Credit Suisse confirmed in a statement that it paid $446 million for over 80 per cent of AMF. The Canadian company provides capital to asset managers in exchange for a passive, non-voting, limited term interest in a manager's ...

Econocrats pour cold water on mortgage agency

... fund managers. The centrepiece is the so-called agency model, a government supported securitisation scheme based on the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Mortgage Backed Securities program. Economist Joshua Gans and Rismark chief executive ...

Canadian RMBS not the answer: S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... Neither a nationalisation of Australia's market nor an adoption of a Commonwealth government-guaranteed body - such as the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation model outlined by the Australian Securitisation Forum - will be a viable solution to ...

VFMC back on hiring trail for CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
Canadian investment management wizard Leo de Bever is stepping down from his role at Victoria Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) to head up one of the largest firms in Canada, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo). The AIMCo invests more ...

US dollar slips after Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... said. In other late New York trading, the dollar eased to 1.0338 Swiss francs from 1.0382 francs, and fell to 1.0046 Canadian dollars from 1.0122. Gold for current delivery closed at $US862.80 per troy ounce today on the New York Mercantile Exchange ...

Canadian pensions down again

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Canadian pension funds suffered a slump for the third consecutive quarter as deepening financial worries depressed equity markets worldwide. According to a survey by RBC Dexia Investor Services, Canadian pension funds suffered a 1.9 per cent slide in ...

Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
The call by NSW Premier Morris Iemma for a lift in the retirement age reflects simple economic reality. It also shows how naive in retrospect people were who criticised the former government's proposals to encourage workers to delay their retirement ...