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Funds resist SG "me too" pension scheme

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
Majority of pension funds in the UK and Europe said that a contribution rate of 8 per cent on a proposed national pension scheme will not really help workers in the low to middle income groups, a new survey found. The Penrose Financial survey conducted ...

CalPERS buys Macquarie property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
One of the US' largest pension funds, CalPERS, has forked out $550 million for a 60 per cent slice of a Macquarie CountryWide Trust's portfolio of shopping centers. The $224 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System closed the half a billion ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
UK pension funds and fund managers risk falling foul of their regulators if they don't "mandate" the companies they invest in to focus on long-term shareholder value, according to the Walker Review. The review, an independent audit of corporate governance ...

Instos allocate $980m to catastrophe bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... year from institutional investors targeting catastrophe reinsurance funds. Greg Hagood, the fund's co-founder, said pension funds, hedge funds and fund of funds are actively seeking non-correlated investments such catastrophe bonds and other insurance ...

GFC spurs DB plans commitment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
If you think the GFC had pushed pension funds away from defined benefit plans, think again - more than 70 per cent of fund executives have no intention of changing their DB plan structures. A new survey by Towers Perrin and SCO noted that while the ...

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... boardroom. But how do you do that? When do you know? That's a big call." Ralph also predicts this push from super or pension funds on investment managers to become more active shareholders, will soon turn 360 degrees. "Investment managers are now saying ...

Local funds won't follow CalPERS lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
One of the US' biggest pension funds, the $223 billion CalPERS, has filed a lawsuit against three of the world's most powerful rating agencies to claw back some of its losses from the GFC, but local super funds look unlikely to follow suit. CalPERS ...

Look past asset classes: Weaven

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... spite of the strong performance [of direct investments], it's going to get [tough] for funding and that's because pension funds are looking to rebuild strategic positions in their asset [classes]. "[They might also] be a bit more cautious this time. ...

US fundie expands into Japanese pensions

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... appointed by Nikko Asset Management as a sub-adviser to provide a customised international equities strategy to Japanese pension funds. INTECH will provide the firm's Kokusai Strategy which uses the MSCI Kokusai Index as a benchmark and aims to achieve ...

UK pensions demand more face time with fundies

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
A survey of UK workplace pension funds representing $400 billion in assets found pension funds are putting more fund managers on a "regular performance review". The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which 1,200 pension funds and $1.6 trillion ...