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Life settlement fund launches in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... six months between July and December. Renouf said super funds in Australia are starting to take notice of this new asset class and already account for one-quarter of the fund's inflows. Life settlements are essentially a secondary market for life insurance ...

PIMCO creates new head of consultant relations role

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
PIMCO has created a new position of head of consultant relations in anticipation of a sharp upswing in interest for defensive asset classes from asset consultants. Kaylee Garden has been promoted to the newly created role of head of consultant relations ...

Everything old is new again, now: Schroders

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... to hedge funds, the focus on alternative asset classes and the search by investors and commentators for elusive new asset class definitions and specialist funds to target them. "No one has ever really invented an asset class - there's debt and there's ...

Time to talk about asset classes: MTAA Super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... you invest in assets or do you invest in classes with characteristics? And does it really matter what the actual 'asset class' is? "We are becoming 'asset class agnostic'. But it's hard to explain this in a PDS," he said. According to SelectingSuper ...

Mercer awards mandate to INVESCO

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... by an Australian investor. Mercer has mandated a 10 per cent allocation to the INVESCO fund within the alternatives asset class, with the balance remaining invested across eleven other managers. Russell Clark, chief investment officer at Mercer, said ...

Telstra Super surges past $10b

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
Telstra Super, Australia's largest corporate super fund, has announced it has broken through the $10 billion in funds under management mark. Terry McCredden, Telstra Super chief executive officer, said, "Our unique low cost, full service offering has ...

Zurich expands super and allocated pension menus

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Zurich Financial Services Australia has announced six new investment options available for the Zurich Superannuation Plan and Allocated Pension. The six new investment options are the ING Wholesale Capital Stable Trust, the Perpetual Wholesale Balanced ...

Equities the pick of the pack in 2007: Russell

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Equities will maintain their position as the best performing asset class in 2007 thanks to strong demand, attractive valuations and a benign macroeconomic backdrop, according to Russell Investment Management. Russell Investment Management has released ...

Qld investors like it hot

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Queenslanders have the biggest appetite for risk when it comes to investing, according to research undertaken by Aviva. The research was based on inflows into the Navigator platform on a state by state basis. Queensland investors had the highest risk ...

State Street ploughs $715m into online FX

... system with "almost no overlap", Once the deal is finalised, they will merge the company's technology with their multi-asset class trading platform Global Link. Ross Bauer, manager of derivatives group Many Financial's local margin Foreign Exchange desk ...