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Toll roads lead global $50bn M&A activity

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... pension funds. "All they (UBS) are taking account of is the existing players in infrastructure, but that's ignoring big pensions funds like CalPERS and CalSTRS," said Meaney, adding that the $200bn CalPERS said it intends to invest into infrastructure. ...

Workers to wear SG rise: Shorten

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... increase will not be funded by employers but by employees. Speaking yesterday at the OECD/IOPS Global Forum on Private Pensions, Shorten said he believes the SG increase should be paid out of wages and not profits, meaning they could operate as de facto ...

UK fast tracks pension reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... on the streets of France, as students joined workers in protesting President Sarkozy's plans to reform the country's pensions system and raise the retirement age to 62.

European pension systems under review

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... the future solvency regime for pension funds will involve. The paper, as part of a four-month consultation on European pensions, will discuss pension fund reforms and the value of existing pensions. It will also look at pension sustainability and the ...

Real return to balance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... concerns over peer and objective risks to achieve better client outcomes, which he says is currently underway in the US as pensions funds there move towards smarter asset allocation. Since its launch in October 2008, the Schroder Real Return Fund has ...

Unions threaten strikes with BBC pension reforms looming

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010

Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super join top 300

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... cent in 2009, the fastest rate of growth in the developed world, according to the report by Towers Watson and US based Pensions & Investments. In the five years to the December 2009, in US dollar terms. Brazilian funds grew 24 per cent, followed by Australian ...

Thousands rally against Sarkozy

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... that he will not back down on the proposed changes, as it will avoid the potential deficit of US$70 billion due to the pensions systems by 2020.

SEC charges New Jersey with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... its budget. As a result, investors were not provided adequate information to evaluate the state's ability to fund the pensions or assess their impact on the state's financial condition. "New Jersey agreed to settle the case without admitting or denying ...

Mercer global CIO joins AXA IM

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... investment officer since 2008 and prior to this global head of investment consulting. He has extensive experience in the pensions and investment consulting business having spent 33 years in several roles at Mercer (including at Duncan C. Fraser bought ...