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Howes appointed CEO of IAA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
The Institute of Actuaries of Australia has appointed former director of policy at ASFA, Melinda Howes, as chief executive. Howes joins the Institute from her role as director of policy and industry practice at the Association of Superannuation Funds ...

Seven signs of the end of an empire

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... which remained to be explored include the use investment themes, such as water. He also predicts the "rise and rise" of active stock pickers and current frontier economies to make greater impacts on investment portfolios.

SMSFs not exempt from tough reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... the regulator of SMSFs, although he said the Cooper Review could, in the future, change this decision. "I don't have any active plans to do so [change regulators], but I'll wait and see what Cooper, in particular, will recommend," he said.

LUCRF Super hires new Aussie eq managers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
The $2.2 billion LUCRF Super has appointed JF Capital Partners, Northcape Capital and Perpetual as its new Australian equities managers. The mandates were appointed as part of an overall review of the various asset classes within the fund. LUCRF Super ...

EISS appoints Mercer as consultant

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... more on passive investment managers. "This is a change from the past where we primarily relied on carefully selective 'active' investment managers. "In recent times, however, this approach has not achieved the returns that were expected," noted the fund's ...

Costello joins Future Fund board

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... national interest. "I have always said, that I believe that the national interest demands that when people retire from active political life, we should draw on all the nation's talents, whatever political tradition they come from," Prime Minister Rudd ...

All aboard online at CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... pension income, other than savings," noted the fund. CalPERS administers retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million active and retired State, public school, and local public agency employees and their families on behalf of 2,600 California public ...

Mandates for commodities and EM managers

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009

Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... opportunities across international small cap stocks and Asia, as increased cross-sectional volatility opens the door for the fund's active managers to add alpha to their returns. "The economic downturn post the GFC has highlighted the resilience of the ...

HESTA pays managers after tax

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
The $13 billion HESTA is taking a new approach to measuring and remunerating Aussie equities fund managers by making them accountable for the tax implications of their decisions. According to a press statement by HESTA, the fund would be the first super ...