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Global market slide hits NZ Super Fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
The New Zealand Super Fund has released its performance report for January 2016, revealing a negative 3.57% return. The $28 billion sovereign wealth fund attributed this return to its weighting to growth assets - in particular its 65% allocation to ...

Long-term investment under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
Investment managers have gone too far in pandering to the short-term investor according to Capital Group equity portfolio manager Jody Jonsson. Speaking at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) event yesterday, Jonsson said there ...

WA Super appoints J.P. Morgan as custodian

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
J.P. Morgan Investor Services will provide custody for WA Super after recently winning a mandate for the superannuation fund's $2.5 billion investment portfolio. The West Australian based super fund completed a tender and review process that went in ...

BNP becomes First Super custodian

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Industry fund First Super has appointed BNP Paribas Securities Services as custodian, replacing NAB Asset Servicing. The $2 billion fund chose BNP because of its "suite of reporting, risk management and analytics [which will] enable the trust to meet ...

NAS loses another super fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) has lost another super fund client, with TWUSUPER switching custodians to BNP Paribas Securities Services. The $3.9 billion fund is the latest in a string of super funds, including QSuper, Sunsuper and Cbus, to take their business ...

Van Eyk goes into liquidation

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
Van Eyk creditors have voted to put the business into liquidation following a recommendation from administrator Moore Stephens, which has just signed term sheets for the sale of the van Eyk Australia and New Zealand businesses. A Moore Stephens spokesperson ...

Lonsec confirms interest in van Eyk's iRate

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Lonsec Fiscal is "extremely interested" in acquiring van Eyk Research's core research and portfolio construction solution, iRate. "Lonsec Fiscal is extremely interested in acquiring the iRate technology and its clients," a Lonsec spokesperson told Financial ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Yesterday we found out that financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with ...

van Eyk up for sale

ALICE URIBE, MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Van Eyk administrator Trent Hancock of Moore Stephens Sydney Corporate Recovery Group is seeking expressions of interest for the purchase of the business and its associated assets. In a statement administrator Trent Hancock said: "The core business ...

PE firms struggling with data management

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Six out of 10 private equity firms are struggling with document management and disseminating data into market intelligence, according to global research conducted jointly by TABB Group and SunGard. The team behind the research surveyed 119 senior private ...