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TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... contrarian investor Marc Faber and one of Singapore's most successful fund managers, Teng Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom Report" and adviser to the TAAM New Asia Fund, is perhaps most famous for ...

Future Fund rebounds

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... deployed into a range of strategies consistent with our long term objective," said David Murray, chair of the Future Fund board of guardians. Alternative investments and global equities were the chief beneficiaries of the fund's changing asset allocation. ...

Super back in the spotlight

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... see super stay on the agenda of the parliament and we want to see the increase to 12 per cent SG implemented across the board," Reynolds said. Reynolds' sentiments were echoed by Pauline Vamos of the Association of Super Funds, Australia (ASFA). "Without ...

Dob in a fraud: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... enterprise are critical to our effectiveness today and tomorrow," said George Diehr, who served as acting president of the board at the pension fund's September Board meeting, in a statement. Diehr said the tools are part of the fund's strategy to restore ...

Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
The time is ripe for super funds trustees and boards to re-assess the competence and skills of their consultants when it comes to socially responsible investing strategies given the breadth and depth of the sector today, said an expert. Matthew Kiernan ...

Costello to leave Future Fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... end of the year "to facilitate a smooth transition to the new leadership of the agency', the statement said. The fund's board of guardians said it would be considering candidates from within Australia and overseas as a replacement.

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board." Makes me think that perhaps he had been busily buying stocks to add to his collection while "everybody was fearful" and now ...

More governance needed on remuneration

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Super funds can do more to exert their influence on remuneration policies after new research suggests CEO pay packages barely changed despite the GFC. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) in its CEO Pay in the Top 100 Companies ...

Aviva appoints senior roles in Asia Pacific

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... McDonald is joining Aviva from Cushman and Wakefield where he was an executive director, while also having experience as board member and managing director at Macquarie Goodman Asia and managing director at Shanghai, CB Richard Ellis Asia. Reporting ...

LICs versus ETFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... higher ability to be benchmarked. Over recent years LICs have received mix reports based on several issues with who is on the board with there being cases where directors may have common interests with external fund managers. "Investors should always ...