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Legalsuper seeks hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... fund recently pumped $20 million into existing Australian equities mandates, and a further $20 million to international equities as part of its asset allocation rebalancing process. However, investment mandates are not the only aspects of the fund that ...

Military Super revamps strategic asset allocation

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... fund's existing 20 per cent allocation. Exposure to debt will be reduced from 50 to 28 per cent, while international equities investments will also be decreased from 9 to 6 per cent. In its balanced option, exposure to Australian equities will be pumped ...

Maritime awards $155m to equities managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Maritime Super's review of its Australian and international equities managers has resulted in Northcape Capital, T. Rowe Price and Ironbridge picking up investment mandates - but two existing fund managers have been dropped. The $2.4 billion fund's ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... improved returns for members," he said. Earlier this year in June, Asset Super made sweeping changes to its international equities and bonds mandates, dropping seven out of eight international equities fund managers and appointing nine new mandates across ...

UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Australian fund managers with international equities expertise should pay attention to three UK pension funds, which are looking to dish out more than $400 million in international shares and index-linked gilts mandates. England's Falkirk Council is ...

Bigger doesn't always mean better

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... portfolio. McMenigall said for instance Aberdeen currently employs six "regional teams" to work on its international equities fund, which are US, UK, Europe, Asia, Japan and Germany. "Each of these regional teams are putting in place an unconstrained ...

Vision and Quadrant to co-invest

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... coming months. "We're [reviewing] equities at the moment, and in the last two weeks we've been [looking at international equities]," said Davy. Davy said Quadrant was in the midst of scrutinising its fund manager line-up along with Vision Super's, and ...

SMSFs miss Asian equities boom

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... date, but research shows they are missing out on the Asian equities boom with their negligible exposure to international equities. Ralf Zurbrugg, a professor at the University of Adelaide, revealed at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia ...

ESSSuper reviews Aussie eq, eyes alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... International shares will receive a ten per cent boost to its allocation, thanks to the cut to Aussie equities. International equities will now make up 60 per cent of ESSSuper's allocation to shares. According to a media statement, the changes to listed ...

TGM wins Asset Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... Management has been awarded a mandate to manage the $1.1 billion Asset Super's currency overlay for its international equities and alternatives portfolios. Asset Super had previously employed State Street Global Advisors to manage the overlay of its ...