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NZ Super and Infratil buy RetireAustralia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2015
... Zealand Super has joined forces with Infratil to buy major Australian aged care facility operator RetireAustralia. The sovereign wealth fund and the asset manager will take 50% each after entering into a sale and purchase agreement worth $640.2 million. ...

MTAA Super awards $200m global credit mandate

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... service invests primarily in investment-grade credits and takes opportunistic positions in convertible securities, the sovereign debt of developed nations, agency bonds, asset-backed securities and high-yield and emerging-market debt, where permitted ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... purchase programme to work and make outright QE not necessary. This, or as we've witnessed at the height of the European sovereign debt crisis, the ECB won't move until it sees the whites in the eyes of 'em financial markets. That's the time when it ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... 9.0% in Q3 2008 to 6.8% in Q4 2008 to 6.6% in Q1 2009) and asset and credit markets were collapsing - or the European sovereign debt crisis, there's no reason for Australia not to survive this "income recession". Yes, Australia's in recession... a recession ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... bonds, but not until 2015. The Frankfurt-based ECB will be able to gauge early 2015 whether it needs to start buying sovereign bonds to stimulate the eurozone economy, its deputy president Vitor Constancio said. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index shed ...

The Future Fund is not a super fund: Costello

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... current Future Fund chair said that, far from being a super fund with specific obligations to specific members, it is a sovereign wealth fund whose fiduciary duty is solely to the government. "There are many people who think the Future Fund is some kind ...

Nikko AM adds senior executives to global team

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... and has over 40 years' experience in the financial industry, mainly in developing relationships with central banks and sovereign wealth funds. Ian Lewis has been appointed head of global consultant relations and will be based in Singapore. Lewis has ...

Bond experts reiterate need for flexible duration strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... bond portfolios be managed? "We believe that a rise in interest rates in the short term is unlikely. The overhang of sovereign debt in the financial system - which helped prop up economies after the financial crisis - is too large relative to GDP to ...

Vanguard appoints APAC senior economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining Vanguard, Wang worked on macro research and strategic development at a sovereign wealth fund based in Asia. Before that she worked an economist and head of Greater China research at JP Morgan. She holds a ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... order to raise its balance sheet to its targeted a,-1 trillion without pushing up their prices. The solution: Purchase sovereign bonds - aka QE. The Fed's success in cutting clean out of QE could be the answer Super Mario is seeking to convince frau ...