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Future Fund returns 7.5pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
The Future Fund has posted a 7.5 per cent return in the year to December, with the performance attributed to more investments towards equities and alternatives, and continuing reduction in its debt and cash holdings. According to the fund's December ...

CalPERS returns 12.5pc in 2010

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the US, achieved a 12.5 percent net return on investments for the 2010 calendar year, pushing its assets under management to US$225.7 billion. While the returns mark the second straight calendar year of double-digit ...

Plum pickings in international equities: K2

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
K2 Asset Management's head of international strategy Nick Griffin believes that a maturing economic recovery will fuel earnings growth and higher international equity prices in 2011. Griffin said that equity valuations remain compelling, in both absolute ...

RBC Dexia bags top rated status

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... clients less than $1 billion and between $1-10 billion categories. Additionally, the firm earned the maximum 11 Best in Class awards for each of the four categories where Top Rated was achieved. David Travers, managing director RBC Dexia Investor Services ...

Top mandate winners woo super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... environment. Meanwhile, international equities received the most fund allocation, with 82 mandates invested in the asset class during the one year to last September. Australian equities came in second with 62 mandates, followed closely by property (60). ...

Busy year ahead for industry groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... said the FPA will be consulting with its members on the constitutional reforms proposed to remove the principal membership class culminating in an EGM vote in April. "Advisers can expect a new FPA in 2011," said Rantall.

Government unveils response to Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... collectables and personal use assets by SMSF trustees be prohibited though it recognises colletibles are only a minor asset class unlikley to have material affect on many SMSF members. "The Government does not agree with this recommendation because it ...

Fees for alternatives under pressure

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... of a capacity and not afraid to hike fees. Global emerging markets equity remains the most traditionally expensive asset class category with median fees averaging around 1 per cent, with small cap equity another expensive category,y with fees averaging ...

Chinese fund on BT Investment Wrap

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... index 72 per cent of the time, whilst providing the resources and backing of a large international asset manager in an asset class which has great growth prospects," said Mulligan. The fund will be managed by Nomura Asset Management (NAM), a provider ...

Banking on a super precedent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... fees outright means that the government has stared down its critics that it wouldn't be brave enough to outlaw an entire class of fee. The bad news for wealth managers is that if it can do this to banks, then concerns over banning commissions by much ...