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Super delivers 12.2% for year end April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
Returns from super fund default MySuper options dipped to 12.2% for the 12 months to end April but funds are still on track for another solid financial year, according to SelectingSuper's latest performance survey. The SelectingSuper survey of Workplace ...

AMP Capital fundamental equities head retires

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Foundation in London. She has also held positions at ABN AMRO Asset Management, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Ameritech Pension Fund and Richardson Greenshields. "Under Ella's leadership, our fundamental equity products have delivered excellent investment ...

Independence on super boards should be skills based

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
Global investment consultant Mercer has re-entered the debate around superannuation board governance by releasing a report showing an increasing international trend towards assigning independent directors. The report is considered timely as the financial ...

World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests coal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... taking another step in its move to integrate greater ESG analysis among its managers in all asset classes. The giant pension fund will require its managers to identify and articulate ESG in their investment processes. In Australia almost two-thirds (66%) ...

Fight profit shifting, ACTU tells industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... were told that "a remodeling of Infrastructure Australia as Australia's clearing house for attracting international pension fund investment in Australian economic and social infrastructure" creates major opportunities for Australian super funds. Not-for-profit ...

Risk management top worry for asset owners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Risk management becoming more complex is seen as the biggest challenge among global asset owners over the next 12 months according to recent data published by BNP Paribas Securities Services. A risk survey of 177 asset owners from 19 countries, including ...

QIC inks $1bn infrastructure deal with CalPERS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... dialogue over a number of years the two institutions. "We are very pleased to have entered into this partnership with a pension fund of CalPERS' stature and for an investment mandate of this scale," he said. "This commitment to QIC and the Asia-Pacific ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Global institutional investors are unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities. That's according to new investor behaviour research by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which conducted the research in January ...

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The Future Fund ranked worst in managing climate change risk, along with three other top superannuation funds in Australia, an Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) global survey revealed. REST, Telstra Super, Super SA, Asgard and GESB also received ...

Super funds too small for activism

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... have in the US," mainly because "the pools we talk about in North America are at least double the biggest Australian pension fund." Credit Suisse said that American pension funds are "much more likely to have the resources to investigate alternative ...