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Global investors call for action on climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... pension fund ATP, and BNP Paribas. However, there were some notable absences on the list. The world's five largest pension funds did not sign, nor did Australia's largest institutional investor, the Future Fund, and its second largest super fund QSuper. ...

FEATURE: The new financiers of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... (ASFA) attracted enthusiastic investors from around the globe, and gave testament to the proposition that global pension funds are piling into infrastructure assets. But the discussion has tended to focus on equity rather than debt. And the reasons for ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Australian super funds, including first-timer HOSTPLUS, have made it into Towers Watson's list of the 300 largest global pension funds, which was released today. However, the weakening Australian dollar saw most of the Australian funds fall down the ...

Are super funds the new shadow banks?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... Bernard Casey of Warwick University said stricter global capital requirements are seeing new organisations such as pension funds providing the capital traditionally provided by banks. "A bank is well known for taking in money short-term and lending it ...

UK annuities policy dubbed 'political schizophrenia'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... investment hosted by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) in Sydney, National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) chief executive Joanne Segars said the decision to scrap compulsory annuitisation was a political one, and would ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... overseas peers. A 2012 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) survey found that large Australian pension funds allocated little more than 10% to the asset class. That compares to a global average of just over 50%. Those figures ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... regime similar to a surgeon's general warning." Gruen said super fund fees in Australia being three times that of UK pension funds means introducing reforms to structurally reduce these fees even by a few basis points would be a worthwhile major microeconomic ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... regime similar to a surgeon's general warning". Gruen said super fund fees in Australia being three times that of UK pension funds means introducing reforms to structurally reduce these fees even by a few basis points would be a worthwhile major microeconomic ...

Wanted: $20bn electricity investor for NSW

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... Abbott's latest international trip that included a visit to Canada where one of his objectives was wooing Canadian pension funds to increase their direct investment into Australia. Canadian direct investment into Australia is already estimated at $26 ...

Abbott eyes Canadian pension money

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has encouraged Canadian pension funds to invest in Australian infrastructure. Speaking alongside Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa, Abbott said he wanted to see more Canadian investment in Australia. "I know ...