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New Zealand Super on track after strong 2012

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation fund is ahead of its long-term target after notching up strong returns in 2012, the latest data show. Since the fund's launch in September 2003 it has returned 7.92%, exceeding the 90-day Treasury Bill rate by 2.84%. The ...

NZ Super fund kicks out companies

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
Three construction companies have been kicked out of the $20 billion New Zealand Superannuation Fund's investment portfolio for allegedly breaking international laws in Palestine. Listed companies Africa Israel and its subsidiary Danya Cebus, Elbit ...

NZ Super Fund named world's most innovative

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has been named the world's most innovative sovereign fund. Last night, the Fund won the prestigious Sovereign Wealth Fund category in the 2012 aiCIO Industry Innovation Awards in New York. The other finalists were ...

CGT relief passes Senate

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... funds that merge. Also passed were Bills that make it easier to transfer retirement savings between Australia and New Zealand, and tighter requirements for self managed super fund auditors. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) ...

Asset consultants influence to grow amid industry change

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... mandates or not - perhaps even between the success or failure of a fund manager." Alex Francois, head of Australia and New Zealand institutional distribution at William Blair, has the task of launching the Chicago-based firm's funds in Australia with ...

The demise of asset consulting vastly exaggerated: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... one Request for Tender, said Greg Liddell, managing director, advisory services, Russell Investments, Australia and New Zealand. A major potential client also decided to stay with the incumbent JANA, who along with Frontier controls the majority of the ...

NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... reported AAP. IMF funded the case for 12 of the 13 councils involved. IMF was considering running similar cases in New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, he said. Walker said the councils would at least recover the $16 million lost on the ...

Mercer partners with superMate in SMSF market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... certificates from the latest release of the platform. David Anderson, managing director & market leader for Australia/New Zealand at Mercer's said the SMSF market offers an opportunity to provide the firm's superannuation expertise direct to advisers ...

NZ Super fund breaks $20bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
The New Zealand Superannuation fund breached the $20 billion mark setting an end-of-month record for September. The fund, which is managed by Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation, was set up by the New Zealand government in 2003 to help pay for the ...

Big data 'big headache' for super: J.P Morgan

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... engagement. William Fraser, Head of eSolutions Services for J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services Australia & New Zealand, says big data is a conversation superannuation and investment groups are having globally in the face of an explosion of data ...