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Canadian pensions pounce on Aus toll road firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... operator group, Transurban. Australia's super fund infrastructure asset strategy appears to be resonating with overseas pension funds, as Canada Pension Plan and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan approached Transurban with an unsolicited indicative non-binding ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... short-termism, driven by ill-designed performance fees or three-month, one-year and five-year performance benchmarks, when pension funds manage money over decades, said the fund manager. The fund manager warned that whatever the new default model is ...

Canadian pensions stage Q3 recovery

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... billion, returned just over 7 per cent for the quarter ending in September. As result, this means the country's pension funds returned more than 14 per cent for the year to date. The best performing asset class were domestic stocks, rising over 10 per ...

CalPERS reviews US$50m fees to placement agent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... US$50 million-plus success fees - was the template to a new law signed this week in California requiring all public pension funds to fully disclose all fees made by their fund managers to placement agents.

Private equity firms sign PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). The UN PRI is used as a blueprint for pension funds, super funds, investment companies and services partners to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into ...

AMP appoints multi asset group head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... adviser for AllenbridgeEPIC Investment Advisers in the UK - a company of independent investment experts who advise pension funds and investment committees on investment-related issues. Kiddie has held chief investment officer roles at ABN AMRO Asset ...

Revamp member education: Ezra

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... concepts instead of investment theories, said Don Ezra, co-chair, global consulting at Russell Investments. Ezra said pension funds across the world are teaching their members about investment products and theories when most people can't save properly ...

Lucky country

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... than any other country, research shows. The Watson Wyatt and Pensions & Investments research found Asia Pacific pension funds recorded the highest compound annual growth rate of 19 per cent per annum during 2008. While Australia's superannuation and ...

Trust in escrow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... levels, tax position, account receivables are accurate." In the US, J.P. Morgan has provided escrow solutions for pension funds that have set aside performance fees in escrow subject to the fund manager meeting targets and in another case, a capital ...

UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Australian fund managers with international equities expertise should pay attention to three UK pension funds, which are looking to dish out more than $400 million in international shares and index-linked gilts mandates. England's Falkirk Council is ...