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Global and Asian mandates up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... by becoming admitted bodies. The scheme is administered for participating employers locally through 99 regional pension funds.

Ambassador wins Copper Rock mandate in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... Australia and New Zealand. Copper Rock, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, provides growth equity strategies for pension funds and other institutional investors, specialising in the small cap sector. In Australia and New Zealand, Ambassador is representing ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... about its safety procedures and strategies when disasters occur. Separately, the UK-based National Association of Pension Funds, which represents more than $1.3 trillion in retirement assets, found most UK pension fund would have an approximate 1.5 per ...

US pension funds get $800m from class action

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Three Ohio pension funds have won a $840 million settlement from AIG after the insurer agreed to settle claims of accounting violations and stock price manipulation, in the tenth-largest securities class action settlement in U.S. history. Ohio Attorney ...

Super-sized super powers up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... for their pension fund clients, which includes the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP). It is among the largest pension funds in Canada with assets of $140 billion - more than treble the size of the biggest super fund in the country (the Cooper Review ...

The disappearing act of lose-lose funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... one section of wealth management (e.g. fund managers) but is across the entire investment chain - fund managers, pension funds and asset allocators. Among the highlights of the survey was the rising number of fund managers that plan to move away from ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... New York fund is not the only institutional investor hurt by BP's plummeting share price and continuing woes. UK pension funds have a multi-billion dollar exposure to oil giant BP's share price, which has plummeted more than 36 per cent since the oil ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
An academic paper that warns five US pension funds could run out of money in less than 10 years due to chronic underfunding and poor returns serves as a precautionary tale for local investors. In a paper published last August titled 'The Liabilities ...

DiNapoli slams raid rumours

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... State taxpayers, from the irresponsibility that has left New Jersey, Illinois, California and dozens of other public pension funds across the nation dangerously under-funded. "I will fight any raids on the New York State Common Retirement Fund," he wrote. ...

HESTA hires Hermes for intl ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... EOS to assist them with voting, engagement and public policy in their equity investments. Globally, BAE Systems pension funds, Marks & Spencer pension fund, Unipension and Highland Good Steward have appointed Hermes EOS for ESG engagement. Hermes EOS ...