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S&P launches Australian tax-aware benchmark series

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... the impact of franking credits for the two important investor segments." S&P Dow Jones Indices head of Australia and New Zealand Daphne van der Oord added, "Tax-exempt investors and superannuation funds are two very important segments of the Australian ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... limit deal flow and inadvertently push up asset acquisition prices. AMP Capital's head of the group's Australia and New Zealand infrastructure fund, Michael Cummings, reinforces Hill's concerns. Cummings said that even though the Queensland election ...

MSCI makes key hire to lead local ETF charge

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... funds (SMSFs). Based in Sydney, he will report to MSCI executive director and head of client coverage in Australia and New Zealand, Michael Anderson. "We are thrilled that someone of Tim's caliber and experience in the ETF industry has joined MSCI in ...

QIC appoints independent investment chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... Global Infrastructure Investment Committee. Previously managing director of the Future Fund and New Zealand Superannuation Fund's first chief executive, Costello began his new role at QIC in late 2014. He and the committee will oversee all Global Infrastructure ...

NZ Super and Infratil buy RetireAustralia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2015
New Zealand Super has joined forces with Infratil to buy major Australian aged care facility operator RetireAustralia. The sovereign wealth fund and the asset manager will take 50% each after entering into a sale and purchase agreement worth $640.2 ...

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 ...