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Cash in on overseas asset offload

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
Australian pension funds are ahead of the curve with their allocations to real assets, but could further exploit opportunities overseas. Australian super funds currently invest an average 17% of their total portfolio in real assets, although in reality ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... big to fail have now been thrown into question, and investors have reconsidered their allocations. Many Australian pension funds have tried to completely remove exposure to euro-zone debt, "it's a quick and simple solution - but at least it removes all ...

Alternatives beyond reach for in-house

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Pension funds bringing research in house might need more staff than they think to internally manage alternative investments with any success. "One of the issues with alternatives is that the burden of due diligence is very high. At my last job we had ...

Buy-right and equity managers will deliver income

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... market for these securities is extremely liquid because it's underpinned by natural buyers such as large hedge and pension funds," added McGowen. Donohoe said, "these are options associated with the stocks that are names in our global equity fund, so ...

FSC focuses FATCA talk on govt agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... regulations released in February, Australian superannuation funds would not qualify for exemptions that captured pension funds in other systems. The regime would therefore require superannuation funds to collect information on their members to determine ...

Cross-border super collaboration on way

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... Australian super funds continue to expand investment into neighboring countries in Asia. Each of these Asian national pension funds are the largest domestic investor putting around 60% of their investment into the domestic market," Wang said. "So for ...

Aust needs better PPP infra structures: Greiner

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
Canadian pension funds' aggressive appetite for Australian infrastructure assets is indicative of the failure of Australian governments to structure deals in a way suitable for local super funds. Nick Greiner, chairman of Infrastructure NSW, said yesterday ...

Dutch pension fund files against GSAM

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... which was 5.4 percentage points below the Goldman Sachs benchmark. The Dutch Central Bank (DNB), which regulates pension funds, requires they hold 105% of assets needed to pay current and future liabilities, although many funds are now struggling to ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... Partners. Referring to British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's recent ambitious plan to raise GBP 20bn from pension funds for 500 infrastructure projects, Mark Crosbie, managing partner at Antin said the lack of interest is not surprising. ...

Real estate suffers as Europe goes DC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
Real estate allocations in European pension funds are now bordering on negligible amid a European shift away from defined benefit schemes, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Paul Trickett, head of global portfolio solutions at GSAM told a ...