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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... 16,413.76 - its highest since November 2007 - with buying further boosted by a report that country's vast national pension fund would double its domestic equities holdings. The index is now in positive territory for the year to date. Sydney closed up ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Former Liberal leader John Hewson has said that over-investment by banks and pension funds in carbon-exposed industries could lead to a global financial crisis that dwarfs the 2008 crash. Hewson was speaking in his capacity as chairman of the Asset ...

Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Australia's pension system is the second best in the world, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index. With a score of 79.9%, Australia outperformed the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden in the index, and was just behind Denmark ...

Scale drove CalPERS hedge fund move

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... abandon the sector, not the inability of hedge funds to perform Last month the US$300 billion California public sector pension fund rattled global hedge fund managers when they announced they were cashing out of the sector. A statement released by the ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... and society as a whole," Signatories included the world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS, and Australia's largest industry super fund AustralianSuper. Commonwealth Bank, AMP and Westpac all signed, as did ...

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 ...