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Global investors call for action on climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... worth more than US$24 trillion - including the world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS, and Australia's largest industry super fund AustralianSuper - have signed a statement in which they lay out some ways ...

FEATURE: The new financiers of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
The complex business of financing infrastructure has traditionally been the preserve of banks. But Basel III has changed that. In the newly-restrictive lending environment, banks are approaching things differently, while non-bank investors are finding ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... list with its $1.2 trillion, and was the only fund to break into the trillion. It was followed Norway's Government Pension Fund, with funds under management of $858 billion. The Netherlands' ABP came in third with $415 billion, followed by South Korea's ...

Korean military fund puts $40m in Aussie infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... Fund. As well as being the only non-Australian stakeholder in The Infrastructure Fund, MMAA is also the only non-pension fund. It functions as a welfare-orient credit union, providing savings services and funding for education, healthcare, and disaster ...

Are super funds the new shadow banks?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Superannuation funds are increasingly behaving like shadow banks and should be regulated as such, an economist and pension expert from the UK has warned. Dr Bernard Casey of Warwick University said stricter global capital requirements are seeing new ...

UK annuities policy dubbed 'political schizophrenia'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
The chief executive of a British pension fund industry body has dubbed the UK government's decision to scrap compulsory annuitisation as 'political schizophrenia'. The comments came on the same day the Financial System Inquiry floated the possibility ...

UK has overtaken Australia for platform innovation: Bravura

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... Review, requirements for much greater transactional and fee transparency, and this year's announcement of choice of pension fund. Rather than technology being how wealth groups differentiate themselves in the market, "technology should facilitate their ...

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... investment approaches." The research - which includes data on a diverse range of institutional investor types - shows that pension fund assets represent a third (33%) of the Top 100 alternative managers' assets, followed by wealth managers (18%), insurance ...

Canadian pension fund buys AMP NZ property portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
One of Canada's largest pension investors, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has bought a complete portfolio of New Zealand properties managed by AMP Capital worth NZ$1 billion. AMP Capital said the sale would allow investors, which include ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
Recent regulatory changes have removed some of the barriers the Australian corporate bond market has posed to issuers and investors. But Australia is still some way behind its international peers. Mark Smith finds out what more can be done to improve ...