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When Irish eyes are frowning

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... May, other risk asset classes are priced near their best levels of the year. Susan Buckley, head of global fixed interest at QIC said that the fundamentals in Ireland " do not look good" and that the crisis is part of a deeper structural problem in Europe ...

Cashed up AustralianSuper ready to pounce

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... combination of property and private equity debt in Australia and New Zealand. In April, Australian Super allocated $500 million to QIC - an investment that makes up 15.2 per cent of the super fund's total property portfolio.

QIC offers instos inflation protection

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... investors with income protection against rising inflation. After a brief period of incubation, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has opened the QIC GFI Inflation Plus Fund to institutional investors, the first unitised inflation-linked product ...

Rise of in-house fund mgmt a game changer

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... largest investment managers. In its recently released results, state owned fund manager Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) disclosed that its after-tax operating profits fell almost 30 per cent in the year to 30 June to $26.3 million. Its funds ...

Focus on member retirement outcomes

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... on 'real' member retirement outcomes, not relative returns, annual account balances and peer performance, said Troy Rieck, QIC head of capital markets. Speaking at the 16th annual Rainmaker Marketing symposium late last week, Rieck said benchmarks were ...

UBS head of credit research joins QIC

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
QIC has appointed former UBS Global Asset Management head of credit research, Asia Pacific, Philip Miall, as head of investment grade credit in the firm's global fixed interest boutique. Miall will undertake investment grade credit research and analysis ...

Infra bonds get conditional industry support

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... institutional investors. "I think it's a good step forward for the infrastructure market," said Peter Scobie, head of credit at QIC, citing the success of similar initiatives in other parts of the globe, including the US. "Any push to develop the infrastructure ...

ESI Super overhauls $800m Aus equities portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
ESI Super has terminated a major Australian equities mandate with QIC and appointed five new managers to the asset class following a restructure of its $800 million Australian equities portfolio. Balanced Equity Management which received $200 million ...

QIC adopts lifecycle investing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
QIC will offer super funds lifecycle investing strategies to improve retirement outcomes for members. Dynamic lifecycle strategies constantly adjust throughout a member's life, focusing on the investment returns required to meet a member's real retirement ...

Investors review global fixed income

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... income mandates and cull their international exposure as concerns of Europe's sovereign debt crisis escalate, according to QIC. Susan Buckley, managing director - global fixed interest at QIC, said fixed interest is increasingly becoming top of mind ...