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Canadian pension fund to buy UK soccer centres

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
The UK's biggest five-a-side football pitch company, Goals, has accepted a buyout offer of 73.1 million pounds (A$110.3 million) from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Teachers' is acquiring Goals through its private equity arm, Teachers' Private ...

Digging dirt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
Well that didn't last long, did it? Europe's back in the headlines and suddenly headlines are back digging all the big, bad news that's out there. On the same day that the EU formally approved Spain's a,-100 billion rescue package to recapitalise its ...

AIMA helping super funds plan HF moves

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... the same time there are those that have made no allocations. So what many super funds are now considering is what the next big asset allocation move is," Ivey said. AIMA will be working with the risk teams of a number of super funds on researching Australian ...

Treasury heavy handed on portfolio disclosure

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
Portfolio disclosure remains a contentious issue for superannuation funds, after it was first flagged in the 2010 Cooper review. It will be a major issue explored at the Financial Services Council annual conference, to be held on 1-3 August at the Gold ...

LUCRF expands in-house investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
LUCRF Super has expanded its internal investment team, which oversees the $3bn fund. Duncan Graham, senior property specialist, and Daniel Grioli, senior investment analyst have both joined the fund. "The growth of the team strengthens the funds internal ...

Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Move on people, get going, nothing to see here. Wall Street went home happy last night despite Uncle Ben's much-anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs being a non-event - a maintenance ...

Hastings wins UK infra mandate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... Funds Management. "We understand European infrastructure extremely well, and we will now resource up a little to meet such a big mandate. "There is a lot of infrastructure becoming available in Europe, for a range of reasons. "In Australia, it's [infrastructure] ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... Leppinus said the local markets took its cues from the United States. "Our market is following the lead from overseas and the big move in the commodities side of things," Mr Leppinus said. In local news, Billionaire coal magnate Nathan Tinkler has made ...

AusSuper to double Asian exposure

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
AustralianSuper plans to more than double its exposure to Asia over the next four years, and has established an investment committee to lead the charge. Most of the committee will be based in Asia, and serviced by the investment services team in Australia. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat after finishing in negative territory for six straight sessions and overnight falls on Wall Street. At 0815 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was unchanged at 4,038. The US ...