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Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... funds (by default options) over the 12 months were Health Super with 8.7 per cent, Catholic Super with 8.2 per cent, Local Super with 8.0 per cent, CBA Officers with 7.8 per cent and HESTA with 7.6 per cent. The top Personal super funds (by balanced ...

AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... property and overseas infrastructure investments, their involvement includes 60 assets worldwide. The push to encourage local super funds to invest in infrastructure is however complicated as even funds that champion the sector, such as AustralianSuper ...

Infrastructure mandates tough for super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... and federal election which Paul hope will yield fresh projects with less debt and better structures that will allow local super funds to hand out mandates with confidence. "I don't think [mandates] are possible unless we have better investment structures ...

Credit Suisse adds to transition team

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... Suisse from Deutsche Bank's portfolio trading and transition management team in Sydney, where he was involved with local super fund and portfolio sales trading for index and quantitative fund managers. Prior to joining Deutsche, Wyse worked at AMP Capital ...

Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... overseas counterparts. Paul Lee, director at Hermes Equity Ownership Service, said at an industry forum yesterday that local super funds are world-class when it comes to seriously tackling ESG risks. The joint survey, for example, ranked AustralianSuper ...

Super funds to gain better risk management

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Super funds could soon gain far more detail on fund manager performance after the launch of a new middle office platform from IT outfit DST Global Solutions. Steve McGovern, global head of the middle office platform at DST Global Solutions, said the ...

... and transparency strategy to benefit Aussie funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... fund manager looking for a slice of CalPERS' $204 billion in funds, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Local super funds meanwhile are watching CalPERS' progress with interest, with some stating that tougher disclosure regimes should be ...

Virgin Super eyes SME market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
Virgin Super has gained more than $300 million in funds since launching four years ago and plans to target financial planners specialising in small to medium enterprises (SME) to gain more inflows. Matt Baxby, chief executive at Virgin Money Australia ...

Mercer urges STP implementation

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Mercer has called for UK defined contribution pension plan trustees to adopt straight through processing (STP) systems or risk significant financial pain. STP involves the automation of communication about investment transactions between administrators ...

Lucky country

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... superannuation and sovereign funds experienced the biggest growth in assets in local currency terms, in US dollar terms, the local super fund industry was second only to Taiwanese pensions funds, which posted more than 14 per cent per annum over a year. ...