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HESTA chief scoops FEAL award

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
HESTA's chief executive Anne-Marie Corboy bags the prestigious 'Fund Executive of the Year' award from the Fund Executive Association Limited (FEAL), in partnership with AMP Capital Investors. Corboy, who celebrates her tenth year this year at the helm ...

Guild selects Mercer for admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
Guild Group appointed Mercer to provide administration and member services across GuildSuper, GuildPension and the Australian Child Care Superannuation Fund. Mercer started providing administration, call centre and online services to the group's members ...

ESG assets made clear: JPMorgan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... including those in Australia. According to David Braga, JPMorgan head of product worldwide securities services, Australian super funds, asset consultants, and fund managers are increasingly particularly about what's accepted within a portfolio structure ...

Evolution of super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... shall meet but retail fund chief Brian Bissaker from Colonial First State and industry fund chief Ian Silk from Australian Super, shared centre stage to talk about how the industry can best serve financial planners, its members and the merits of a super ...

Swedish pension lessons for Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law, has suggested Australia look to Sweden's nationalised pension system for a model of how to operate a low-cost superannuation system. But is this the right comparison? The centrally ...

PASF recruits UK pension CIO

... lot of potential (PASF's size is a fraction of the pension fund that he previously worked at). Asked how the Australian super fund market differs to the UK pension market, he said, "The funds in Australia have a much broader investment universe and I ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... locking in higher prices and this expectation of rising prices attracts new investors who help bid up prices. Australian super funds are unlikely to be large enough to impact markets like this but US or European pension might be, he said. Regardless ...

Super funds to raise hedge fund weighting

Australian super funds are predicted to increase their investment allocation to hedge funds by $1 billion over the next two to five years with some switching from the popular fund-of-fund strategy to single strategy and multi-strategy hedge funds. The ...

Nicholas Applegate ramps up global strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
US-based investment firm Nicholas-Applegate is banking on its global select, global equity and emerging markets strategies to lure business from Australian clients. The diversified global investment company has confirmed that it is going to focus on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
The Australian share market continued its run higher at midday, as a rise in industrial metals boosted resources and more talk of the Chinese taking a stake in BHP Billiton pushed its share price up to $50 - the highest on record. At 1205 AEST, the ...