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China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
... from the sheer number of its working population and because it doesn't have the same legacy issues facing local pension funds. "China will probably get there quicker than Australia did because of starting with that knowledge. And if they get it right ...

Alt assets boom in uncertain times

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... growth, low borrowing rates and an improvement in market fundamentals. Infrastructure has particular resonance with pension funds in particular, the report stated, with due to the class' long life, steady cash flow with an inflation hedge and low return ...

Euro PE due for bull run: Adveq

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... billion of assets for its clients. These clients consist mostly of international institutional investors including pension funds, insurance companies, family offices and other financial services providers.

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... to mention the opportunity and implementation costs to boot,'' he said. Inalytics provides analysis software for pension funds, asset managers, brokers and regulators to improve performance and increase transparency. The company's quantitative analysis ...

Canadian fund slams investment restrictions

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... Retirement System (OMERS) has called for the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions to remove rules that restrict how much pension funds can invest in certain assets. The fund claimed the rules cost them billions of dollars of lost investment income and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... that," Ms Trinh said. But the Australian dollar had rallied since, she said, on the back of interest from Japanese pension funds looking to invest overseas. "It's a big reversal from this morning's chaos following the Northern Rock news," she said. "The ...

Aussie super funds leap into top 300

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
... currency terms over a three-year period, while US funds grew at only 9 per cent per annum in the same period. Large pension funds in the 'other - developed world' category grew at 32 per cent. The eight funds were NSW State Super (ranked 119), AustralianSuper ...

Governance key to improving returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... down to good corporate governance and risk management. Referring to a separate survey by the ICPM of 88 individual pension funds across the world, including four per cent from Australia, he said there was a statistically positive relationship those organisations ...

UK alternative weightings quadruple

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
UK pension funds now have record low weightings to domestic equities and record high weightings to international equities while weightings to alternative assets have quadrupled in four years, according to a survey by Pension Funds Online, the UK directory ...

More money on money

The continuing globalisation of investments is driving more pension funds to adopt savvier currency strategies, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). SSgA has enjoyed a more than doubling of its currency assets globally to $115 billion (US$100 ...