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Aussie funds fail transparency test

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... found, with financial advisers caught between client commitments and secretive funds. Managed funds in Australia and New Zealand do not have to publish portfolio holdings, considered to be very a basic disclosure requirement by international standards ...

Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... Australian corporate debt sector found airlines the most affected, with potential ratings implications for Qantas and Air New Zealand. A high oil price also hits the profit line. Jet fuel was 27 per cent of airline operating costs in 2007 when at an ...

Fund, Insurers unafraid of Japan quake cost

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... any direct losses from the Japan earthquake tragedy. Paul Gregory, head of communications for New Zealand Superannuation Fund, said its catastrophe bond exposures are not considered likely to be triggered by the earthquake, and the company would remain ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... have been slow to take them up. Australian and New Zealand entities involved in cat bonds include New Zealand Superannuation Fund which Evans said invested $300 million in the sector last year. He also said boutique fund manager Secquaero had partnered ...

VicSuper wins sustainability award

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... practices according to the judges. The awards, from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in Australia and New Zealand (ACCA), are based on the level of on transparency in environmental, social and sustainability reporting and how well they ...

J.P. Morgan makes fresh moves in sec lending

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... portfolio of securities as collateral in a highly automated environment. The platform is built for Australian and New Zealand institutional requirements and is ideal for organisations with long assets, said Jane Perry, chief executive officer for Treasury ...

AMP unveils $6.34 per share bid for AXA

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... to fund the deal. In an ASX statement, AMP said that, as widely expected, it proposes to merge AXA's Australian and New Zealand businesses, and divest its Asian business back to AXA SA, the company's French parent and current major shareholder. The deal ...

Northern Trust launches accounting platform

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... global technology and operations architecture," said Paul Cutts, Northern Trust's managing director for Australia and New Zealand. The platform offers clients immediate access to fund accounting, net asset values, fund administration and regulatory reporting. ...

Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... rental market," he explained. Richard Adams, director of client service and marketing for the firm in Australia and New Zealand, said investment in US real estate could provide super funds with diversification from the increasingly scarce pool of quality ...

Cashed up AustralianSuper ready to pounce

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... invest in an unlisted debt portfolio, which holds a combination of property and private equity debt in Australia and New Zealand. In April, Australian Super allocated $500 million to QIC - an investment that makes up 15.2 per cent of the super fund's ...