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Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The $63 billion Future Fund's overweight allocation to cash has paid off in the first quarter of this year - losing a mere 1.81 per cent when many funds suffered double-digit losses over the same period. This result, combined with the 2007/08 year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... general meetings. Empire Oil & Gas NL holds a general meeting. Mercer will host a briefing on sovereign wealth funds by Future Fund chairman David Murray. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations releases its skilled vacancies ...

Aussie super funds lead pension growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Australia's retirement funds including State Super, Australian Super, UniSuper and the Future Fund are some of the fastest growing in the world, rising at an average compound annual growth rate of 17 per cent. The Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt ...

Future Fund is $652m richer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
Despite the credit crisis, the Future Fund comes out on top making $652 million in the year to June - but the returns may be due to prudence rather than skill. The Future Fund, excluding returns from its Telstra stake, gained 1.54 per cent or $652 million ...

US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... their securities lending program". Paul Cutts, the local managing director for Northern Trust, the custodian of the Future Fund, declined to comment as the company is yet to offer its securities lending services in Australia. But this year, the chairman ...

Future Fund still on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
The $61.5 billion government Future Fund is looking to appoint three new team members to boost its operations and investment teams. Last week, the fund advertised for a senior analyst - infrastructure to assist in the development of the fund's global ...

Northern Trust gains $1bn custody mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... extreme market events. Northern Trust was chosen to provide custody services to the Australian government's $61 billion Future Fund in May last year. The firm has more than $4 trillion in assets under custody and over $790 billion in assets under investment ...

Future Fund to release quarterly public reports

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
With the Future Fund's investment strategy falling into place, it has advised parliament that in the new financial year it will be begin releasing quarterly public reports. The Future Fund was recently criticised by the Washington-based Peterson Institute ...

Northern Trust expands reporting tools

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... governance reporting tools. The overseas custodian, better known locally as the custodian for the $60-billion plus Future Fund, has enhanced its reporting tools to cover changes in corporate governance, financial disclosure and regulation reporting requirements ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... Education Investment Fund and $10 billion in a new Health and Hospitals Fund. All three funds will be managed by the Future Fund Management Agency which will explode out of blocks to more than $100 billion in assets under management, propelling it to ...