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Global port manager to leave AMP fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
Brett Ward, the European global portfolio manager for AMP, has given his notice at AMP as he prepares to leave the company and the AMP Capital Global Property Securities Fund. Ward said he wanted to return to Australia after working for AMP in their ...

AUI to draw planners with new property ratings

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) plans to use recent positive research ratings on its Diversified Property Fund to attract financial planners and retail investors to its $40 million rights issue, due to close on June 30. The Diversified Property Fund ...

UBS property fund gets three stars

S&P RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has assigned its three-star 'new' rating to the UBS Property Securities Fund. The ratings house placed the fund 'On Hold' in October 2009 when its co-portfolio managers resigned and management was transitioned to the ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The $152 billion New York State Pension Fund is suing British Petroleum over losses from the oil spill disaster. In a press statement, New York state comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, the trustee of the NY fund, said he was hiring law firm Cohen Milstein ...

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 ...

S&P gives Aberdeen fund 3 stars

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
S&P Fund Services has rated the Aberdeen Capital Growth Fund three stars, after the fund was placed 'On Hold' following Aberdeen's acquisition of parts of Credit Suisse which affected the management of this product. S&P rates the fund three stars after ...

Challenger property co-portfolio fund manager departs

S&P RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
John White, co-portfolio manager of Challenger Property Securities Funds, has left the firm for undisclosed reasons. John Longo, his co-portfolio manager for eight years, will take over as portfolio manager. "It's unlikely that John White will be replaced. ...

Harvard puts property on sale

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
The $29 billion Harvard University endowment fund is looking to sell a slice of its $5 billion-plus real estate portfolio to lessen its exposure to embattled property markets. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the fund is looking to deploy ...

Local Govt Super upgrades property investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
Local Government Super's (LGS) upgrade of its building investments could save more then $2 million energy costs. The super fund worked with independent consultants, Napier & Blakeley, and risk management consultants, CETEC, to upgrade air conditioning ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
You are the definition of moral hazard! These words - delivered by Kentucky Republican Senator Jim Bunning at Ben Bernanke's Senate hearing on his nomination for a second term as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve - perhaps reflects the embodiment of ...