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Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... need to think about impediments and what can be done to "overcome them and truly be global investors." "What's the pension fund in Toronto doing? What's the sovereign wealth fund in Beijing doing? What's the Central Bank doing in Europe? They're the ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, CREATE-Research chief executive Professor Amin Rajan spoke broadly about pension fund business models and said he was surprised by the ambitions of some Australian funds. "I have met with a number ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...

Pengana and PanAgora strike new deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Global quantitative manager PanAgora Asset Management will bring its institutional funds management capabilities to the Australian retail market through an agreement struck with Pengana Capital. The deal expands Pengana's investment solutions with a ...

ACSI calls for better company disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) believes more progress is needed to embed better anti-corruption and bribery disclosures in major Australian companies. ACSI says while there has been a general improvement in disclosure quality ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... obsession with low fees might be more acute in Australia, investors globally have started to shun hedge funds. Giant US pension fund CalPERS was among the first to enter the space, and the first to leave it in September 2014. At the same time, the Dodd-Frank ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Mark Wills once managed to play rugby, go to university, have a job and meet his future wife within a single year. But after managing to juggle so many activities during the early years of his career, today State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of ...

Islamic super fund sees 245% FUM growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... numbers growing close to tenfold during the year. The fund, founded in 2013, is the world's first private Islamic pension fund and it offers a series of investment options. Its Islamic cash management fund accounts for 29% of funds under management and ...

Advisers to remain at centre of CBA: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has insisted that despite the challenges the bank has faced in its financial advice business and in spite of widespread digitisation, face-to-face planners will remain at the heart of the company's business ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... Platinum Asset Management, led by local star manager Kerr Neilson, was listed as the 19th largest hedge fund manager by pension fund assets under management. The survey shows that the top 10 local alternatives managers by funds under management are ...