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Rollover easier at Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
The $11.6 billion Sunsuper has unveilled a new online rollover fund tool in an effort to encourage members to consolidate their super. The online rollover tool allows members to transfer their super from another fund to Sunsuper in five to ten minutes. ...

China's SWF on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
The world's ninth largest sovereign wealth fund, the $240 billion China Investment Corporation, is embarking on a recruitment spree to boost its investment teams. A statement released yesterday on the CIC website noted that they were seeking "qualified ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

Equities jackpot for HNWs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Over 90 per cent of wealth manager clients will demand direct equity investments in the next two years, new figures show. A survey by Datamonitor shows that wealth managers, who serve the financial needs of HNW individuals, expect that over 90 per cent ...

CalPERS ploughs more into private equity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
The $231 billion CalPERS is putting more funds into private equity and global fixed income, but is raising its cash targets. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said it is increasing the target allocation for its Alternative ...

Seven in 10 investors are bullish: ML

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Around 70 per cent of investors are bullish that the economy will improve in the next 12 months, according to the latest Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers. Portfolio managers are picking themselves up slowly from last year's markets debris and starting ...

Asset Super completes intl mandates review

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Asset Super has 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 both asset classes. Asset Super has discontinued mandates ...

Insurance and finance cos hedge against risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
More than 30 per cent of insurance and finance companies are looking to boost their information technology systems to better manage risk, notes a new KPMG survey. Out of 315 respondents across the globe, 35 per cent say they would invest in information ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
BlackRock has signed a purchase agreement to buy Barclays Global Investors including its ETF platform, iShares, to create a $3.3 trillion (US$2.7 trillion) asset management giant. According to a media statement released this morning, the deal will see ...

Blame the banks for the crisis

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
The banks are to blame for the global recession, says 83 per cent of the UK population. A new survey from Datamonitor shows 83 per cent of 300 respondents point their fingers at the banks for perpetrating the credit crunch and economic downturn sweeping ...