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Credit Suisse adds to transition team

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... Suisse's transition management business throughout Asia Pacific, focusing sovereign wealth funds (SWF) and super and pension funds.

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... treating placement agents as "lobbyists", in a bid to help protect the integrity of the nation's two largest public pension funds. Assembly member Ed Hernandez, who helped author the bill, said the vote meant they "are one step closer to restoring people's ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... they take their role as shareholders far more seriously. Lindsay Tomlinson, chair at the National Association of Pension Funds, said local and international fund managers should publicise how they monitor companies they invest in to improve corporate ...

Transurban deal off Future Fund table

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
The $66 billion Future Fund has terminated discussions with two Canadian pension funds on buying Transurban. The Future Fund Board of Guardians released a statement yesterday, stating it has "terminated discussions with the Canada Pension Plan Investment ...

Perennial gains intl insto mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... an investment mandate from an Irish institution. "[Global property] was the darling asset class in 2006, the big pension funds started allocating to global property back then," he said. "That slowed down during the financial crisis as people waited for ...

State Street continues British Airways mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... management and investment servicing for more than $4.8 trillion in pension assets, including 10 of the world's 20 largest pension funds. With $18.8 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.9 trillion in assets under management at December ...

Russell in hiring spree, Elkins departs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... implementation of portfolio strategies becomes increasingly acknowledged as a must-have among competitive superannuation and pension funds. - Retail - five new roles as demand from SMSF segment grows: Russell also announced a series of changes to its ...

Pensions fail to direct manager voting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... director of law and policy, Laura O'Neill in a statement. "This suggests that more institutional investors, including pension funds, let their manager decide how their proxies should be voted. "The lack of direction is cause for concern," she said. SHARE's ...

AMG buys Pantheon Ventures

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... account programs. The firm currently manages approximately $25 (US$22) billion for over 300 global clients, including pension funds, endowments, government bodies and insurance companies. According to the press statement, Pantheon has a team of 63 investment ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... 'defined benefits' (fixed payments come retirement) factor in the balance sheet. This is why defined benefit-driven pension funds like France, Germany and Japan invests a large part of their portfolio in bonds while defined contributions (DC) pension ...