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UK pension funds required to warn consumers

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to chief executive officers of pension providers to outline government plans to introduce additional protection for retirees wishing to access their defined contribution pension pot from April this ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Superannuation fund boards should comprise a majority of independent directors including an independent chair, David Murray has recommended in the Financial System Inquiry final report. If the government implements this recommendation, it would represent ...

Big changes on way for pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... State Street. The survey, called 'Pension Funds DIY: A Hands-on Future for Asset Owners', interviewed 134 senior pension fund executives from 15 countries and was commissioned by State Street and conducted in conjunction with The Economist magazine's ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... provider Vanguard to declare Buffett its best salesman. Active managers have also copped flak from the largest public pension fund in the US. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) ditched its hedge fund allocation "as part of an ...

Super funds out-growing local real estate

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... decision." The appetite for overseas real estate assets is being driven by the sheer force of growth in the domestic pension fund market. Evans said there simply aren't enough blue-chip assets in Australia to accommodate the demand. The real estate expert ...

IFM Investors wins UK pension fund mandates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... have won two infrastructure investment mandates worth $364 million from two UK local government pension funds, Avon Pension Fund and Dorset County Pension Fund. The mandates will be invested in IFM Investors' portfolio of core equity infrastructure ...

IFM has 'concerns' over infra prices

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
IFM Investors' head of European infrastructure debt David Cooper has stopped short of saying there is an infrastructure bubble, but raised 'concerns' about the prices institutional investors are paying for infrastructure. When asked to comment on whether ...

Australian Catholic Super names new CIO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... is Michael Block, the current chief investment officer at Nambawan Super Limited, Papua New Guinea's public sector pension fund. Block has previously worked at FuturePlus Financial Services, WorkCover NSW and the University of New South Wales endowment ...

Infra posts 18 pct returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Unlisted infrastructure returned 18% post fees in the 12 months to end September, outperforming all other asset classes except for global equities and so demonstrated its countercyclical credentials. The results are contained in a new index released ...