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Hunter Hall divests from fossil fuels

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
Ethical investor Hunter Hall has become the second fund in two days to announce it will introduce fossil fuel screening into its investment criteria, following a similar announcement by AMP Capital on Wednesday. However, while AMP Capital's screen focuses ...

NZ Super Fund named world's most innovative

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... the 2012 aiCIO Industry Innovation Awards in New York. The other finalists were the Australian Future Fund; Singaporean fund GIC; Norges Bank Investment Management and the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan. Chairman Gavin Walker said the award recognised ...

RBA says its ok

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
"At today's meeting, with prices data slightly higher than expected and recent information on the world economy slightly more positive, the Board judged that the stance of monetary policy was appropriate for the time being." This was how the Reserve ...

Super funds evolve towards direct property: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... investment solutions. Judd said the offshore market was broken into two components with the large sovereign funds such as GIC that are trending away from investing widely held vehicles and creating their own direct real estate portfolios but there are ...

Vanguard appoints senior portfolio manager, fixed income

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... experience in the bond markets having worked as a fixed income portfolio manager for an inflation-linked bond portfolio at GIC Asset Management, a subsidiary of Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. She also worked as a director of fixed income research ...

GIC pockets $1.8 billion from Citi sale

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC has sold half of its 9 per cent stake in Citigroup - a deal that plumped up GIC's coffers with a $1.8 billion (US$1.6 billion) profit. A press statement from GIC, which has over $100 billion in funds under management ...

GIC eyes US and European investments

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
The $120 billion Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is expanding its investment scope, appointing a company president based in America and also Europe. Lim Chow Kiat was appointed president of the corporation's European office based ...

Investors flock to listed property ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... August this year. The listed property sector has recovered since its lows early in 2009. The S&P/ASX 300 - Property Trusts (GIC) Accumulation Index returned more than 16 per cent in the three months to June this year. The index still lost over 42 per ...

GIC reshuffles top management

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
Singapore-based investment management firm GIC, which has over $100 billion in FUM, has appointed Lim Siong Guan as group president and Tony Tan as chairman of its real estate arm. Richard Hu will retire as chairman of GIC Real Estate Private Limited ...

Sovereign funds lose out after bank bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... shares with voting rights. Aite Group senior analyst Denise Valentine said that the Government of Singapore Investment Corp. (GIC) could face a dilemma if banks such as Citi, believed to be in discussion with US officials on such a deal, become part-owned ...