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Foreign investment bound for South Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
The South Australian government is continuing to promote its $21 billion agriculture industry to foreign investors via an innovative online portal and through wider budget initiatives. The portal, AgInsight South Australia, was launched in August 2015 ...

Fees still an issue for alternatives: WTW

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... of hedge funds (FoHF) (6% and $222 billion), infrastructure (5%) and illiquid credit (5%). The research found that pension fund assets represent a third (34%) of the top 100 alternative managers' assets, followed by wealth managers (19%), insurance companies ...

Fidante manager closes $400m industrial water fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
... Limited has received $400m in commitments from six institutional investors, including the First Swedish National Pension Fund (AP1) and BAE Systems' pension fund's investment manager. It is the first institutional fund to exclusively target industrial ...

Chinese and Dutch investment giants explore long-term alliance

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... China's largest asset managers and the in-house investment manager for the Netherlands' $500 billion National Civil Pension Fund (ABP) are in discussions to form a long-term strategic alliance. APG manages assets for ABP, which is the Netherlands' pension ...

CalPERS increasing emerging manager exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
One of the world's largest pension funds is aiming to have US$11 billion ($15 billion) dedicated to emerging and transition investment managers by 2020. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) told the Global Entrepreneurship Summit ...

Instos begin litigation against Volkswagen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... controls, governance and oversight by the board. This action seeks to recover not only CalSTRS economic losses to the pension fund, but, ultimately, to implement much needed corporate governance reforms going forward at VW." CalSTRS pointed out that ...

Former CalPERS CEO jailed

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... CalPERS board member, the late Alfred Villalobos. It was reported Villalobos provided the bribes as an attempt to steer pension fund investments to the private equity firms he represented. CalPERS issued a statement about the sentencing of its former ...

Investment committees must consider culture

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... between board representation and competency. "Representation is a very powerful force in the super industry and the pension fund industry worldwide. Representation creates a lot of diligence and creates a lot of alignment. On the other hand you're not ...

Equities out, alternatives in for pension funds

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
Large pension funds, including superannuation and sovereign wealth funds, are increasing their exposure to alternatives to preserve or improve return, according to the OECD 2015 Large Pension Funds Survey. The report noted that pension funds in general ...

Good asset owners benchmarked at $30bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... highly-diversified, portfolio using sophisticated factor-type strategies on an ETF platform today at a lower cost than the average pension fund does globally. That's disruptive when you think about it that way - what's the shape of our industry going ...