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Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... report more than $1 billion in inflows since the first quarter of last year from global insto investors including pension funds and insurance companies. Last month alone, the fund manager received mandates from pension funds in Germany. Pension plans ...

BNY Mellon boutiques win mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... Management. GPIF has investible assets of approximately $1.9 trillion, and is one of the world's largest public pension funds.

UK budget cuts HNW pension relief

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... example, ISAs especially following the increased savings allowances. The reform will also add administrative costs for pension funds when they are already battling to keep costs down in the current challenging market, she said.

Australian equities need more PR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
Listed Australian companies can do more to convince overseas fund managers and pension funds to invest in the local market, with some prospective investors complaining of inadequate company websites and substandard investor relations. Local fund managers ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
UK pension funds are increasingly diversifying into hedge funds, global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) and active currency strategies, according to a Mercer survey. The firm's European Asset Allocation Survey found UK pension fund allocations to equity ...

Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... traditionally uncorrelated markets such as fixed income and equities are starting to behave like each other. International pension funds such as CalPERS have also entered the commodities game and last February announced it intended to increase its commodities ...

Vision Super banking goes live

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
Members of the $4.2 billion Vision Super can now access their allocated pension funds directly through ATMs and Visa Debit cards with its recently launched banking service. Vision Super teamed up with Cuscal last year to provide the super fund's members ...

Irish pensions suffer 25pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... its value in 2008 - losing nearly $38 billion to December last year. According to the latest Irish Association of Pension Funds' annual asset allocation survey, the assets of pension schemes in the country fell $38 billion to $126 billion - nearly a ...

Mexican super funds shut doors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
Pension funds in Mexico are snubbing international investments this year as they invest all of their fund inflows into the local market to boost the country's economy. According to Asociacion Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos, an organisation that ...

Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... Bracken. Bracken heads the macro strategies team at BT and has worked for four years at ABP, one of the largest pension funds in the world with over $240 billion in assets under management. He is in charge of four other absolute return strategy funds ...