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NZ Super Fund takes big stake in LanzaTech

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSF) has taken a 17% stake in gas-to-liquid company LanzaTech. The stake, purchased for invested $US60 million ($A64.92 million) values the company at about $US400 million and makes the super fund the second-biggest ...

NZ Super terminates AMP Capital mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has terminated AMP Capital's New Zealand active equities mandate, effective from 30 October. The value of the mandate was NZ$257.5 million ($228.8 million). AMP Capital was appointed to the mandate in 2003. The decision ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... slowed from a five year annual rate of 11.9% to 3.7%. Some institutions, like the Future Fund Management Agency and New Zealand Super Fund, have no on-going consultant relationship and instead do the research themselves. Despite this, neither consultants ...

PROFILE: Goldman Sachs Asset Management head of fixed income for Asia-Pacific Philip Moffitt

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... is therefore refreshing that Philip Moffitt, head of Fixed Income Asia-Pacific and chief executive of Australia and New Zealand, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is not afraid to acknowledge that he's been fortunate. After growing up in Sydney's west ...

MySuper fees approaching KiwiSaver best practice

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... fees may be closer to best practice than we realise. In a submission to the Financial Systems Inquiry (FSI) by the New Zealand Council of Financial Regulators (a NZ official group that includes the NZ Financial Markets Authority; NZ Treasury; the Reserve ...

NZ Super CEO higher paid than Aussie counterparts

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund pays chief executive Adrian Orr considerably more than many of Australia's highest profile not-for-profit super fund chief executives. In its 2014 annual report, the NZ Super Fund revealed that Orr received NZ$791,462 ...

TWUSUPER appoints new CEO

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... Administration, and Diploma of Superannuation. He is a Certified Practising Accountant and Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance. He is also part of the Industry Funds Forum, Fund Executives Association Ltd and the ...

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... around one day and we thought we'd do a bit of travelling," he says. "My wife had seen a great photo of Queenstown, New Zealand. And she looked at me and said, 'Hey, why don't we move there?' I said, 'I'm not sure if they need any actuaries in Queenstown ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Cbus and the New Zealand Super Fund have joined a number of international investors backing Mercer's new study of the investment risks and returns under climate change scenarios. Mercer said the study would be "framed by several plausible climate scenarios ...

Catholic Super awards $90 million to US microcap fund

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... where inefficiencies are often the greatest. The THB US Micro Cap Fund is distributed by Brookvine in Australia and New Zealand. CSF chief investment officer Garrie Lette noted that few institutional investors have a dedicated investment in US microcap ...