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Mercer adds to global infrastructure team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... management capacity, helping clients invest directly, globally. "We recognise the growing desire of superannuation and pension funds worldwide to invest directly in infrastructure," said Graeme Mather, business leader for Mercer's investment consulting ...

Australian funds lead global asset growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... trajectory, with a number of high profile mergers during 2011," said Goss. The combined assets of the world's largest 300 pension funds grew US$1.2 trillion to US$12.5 trillion over the last year. The US accounts for 34% of those assets, followed by ...

UK pension liabilities bigger than the bank

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... capitalisation, the study found. The study looked at other areas of risk including the size of equity assets within pension funds relative to market capitalisation. Lloyds again ranked the highest with equity exposure of 51% compared with Royal Bank ...

Gold, gold, gold, but not to Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... dynamics will be squeezed out. These defensive characteristics are why many overseas investment strategists recommend pension funds should hold up to 10% of their assets in gold, though very few funds do apart from those in Switzerland for example where ...

Rates rise in Italy while Cypriot pension funds withdraw cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
Troubles have again surfaced in the Eurozone with markets concerned over Italian public debt and Cypriot pension funds withdrawing cash from banks exposed to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. The yield on 10-year Italian BTP bonds has risen to 6.26 per ...

US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
US pension funds have issued a rallying call to President Barack Obama and Members of Congress to act immediately on US debt or risk long term damage to the country's retirement savings. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) released ...

Instos go direct as hedge funds industry moves

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... more than US$5.5 billion of inflows during the month. Japan is also experiencing a rise in direct investment as pension funds look set to increase their allocations. HSBC has seen a lot of new hedge funds launched in the US this year and also in Asia ...

Super funds chase CPI linked assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... they continue to ramp up their allocation to alternatives, a class that has swelled to US$952 billion among global pension funds. According to a global research study by Towers Watson, in conjunction with UK newspaper Financial Times, alternative assets ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... in private equity funds, returns that reportedly annualise at 30% over almost 40 years. This success has pushed pension funds around the world, and in Australia, to increase their alternatives exposure particularly into hedge funds. But Dr Ludovic Phalippou ...

Funds ignoring foreign exchange risk

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... but what about the foreign exchange parts of their portfolios?" he said. With high profile court cases featuring pension funds suing custodians over foreign currency transactions taking place in the US, Australian managers may take note. Rieck suggested ...