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Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
A large hole has been punched in the Japanese economy by Friday's earthquake, with super funds tightlipped on the possible impact of exposure and advisors looking to their portfolios. Professor Andrew O'Neil, director of the Griffith Asia Institute ...

No easy fit for health insurance: super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... chief executive of AMIST Super, there is a clear distinction between what a super fund does compared with a health insurance fund - and the co-mingling of assets could be tricky. "A health insurance fund is an insurance company - a super fund is not ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... insurance-related investments, and backs the strategy with a $50 million seed investment into a newly-launched catastrophe insurance fund. Ipac has invested the funds into the Palmetto Australian Unit Trust, which is managed by Nephila Capital, one of ...

ESI Super ramps up member support

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
ESI Super is adding more resources to its Life Event program, a free service that provides assistance and advice to members that experience a life-changing event. The Life Event program gives financial advice and help in managing, accessing and transferring ...

Instos allocate $980m to catastrophe bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Bermuda-based Nephila Capital, which counts AMP and MLC as clients, has raised $980 million in the second quarter of this year from institutional investors targeting catastrophe reinsurance funds. Greg Hagood, the fund's co-founder, said pension funds ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... lauded the new US government for budgeting US$10 billion on a so-called Home Price Decline Reserve Payments, an insurance fund that effectively provides lenders with security when they re-negotiate mortgages based on existing housing prices and the market ...

Sunsuper digs deeper into alternatives

Queensland-based super fund Sunsuper continues its hiring spree in a bid to do more investing and research in alternative asset classes. Sunsuper has appointed three new managers namely Suzanna Berman, Megan Chan and Bruce Tomlinson. Berman, formerly ...

Alternative goes mainstream as long-only dies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
The move to more sophisticated investment strategies and the wide adoption of so-called alternative strategies as standard fare will result in the continued decline of traditional low-risk long-only mandates, according to investment consultants Watson ...

Former NSW Treasurer joins HOSTPLUS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... governance structure." Collins is also currently a NSW Government appointed board member for the Workers Compensation Insurance Fund Investment Board and Macquarie Generation as well as chair of the Cancer Institute (NSW) and a board member of the Cancer ...

S&P affirms A minus ratings on MBF Australia, outlook stable

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2003
... stable. S&P said the ratings affirmation follows the announcement today that MBF, Australia's second largest health insurance fund, will acquire the NRMA Life and ClearView businesses from Insurance Australia Group (IAG). The acquisition comprises financial ...