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US bond investors fund Australian wind farm

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015

Global dividend growers suit retirement income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
Adding a global equity income investment strategy to retirees' existing income strategies would add diversification and help address concentration risk in many portfolios, according to global active fund manager Capital Group. The investment giant ...

Future Fund fills head of infra vacancy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
The Future Fund has filled the head of infrastructure and timberland role left vacant by Dr Raphael Arndt when he was made chief investment officer in September 2014. Following a global search process, Wendy Norris has been promoted from within the ...

Aon appoints director to super board

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
Aon Hewitt has appointed a former KPMG partner to be an independent director to the board of its superannuation business. Trevor Allen became chair of the audit sub-committee as well as a director to the Aon Superannuation trustee board on 1 January. ...

Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
Former Platinum deputy chief investment officer Jacob Mitchell has launched a new high conviction global equity boutique called Antipodes Global Investment Partners, three months after resigning from star manager Kerr Neilson's firm. Mitchell and his ...

Marketing key to $480bn post-retirement opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
A high proportion of those in or near retirement have little idea what to do when it comes to choosing a post-retirement product and that uncertainty could be costing the superannuation industry as much as $480 billion. That's the conclusion of a recently ...

Legg Mason Brandywine fund awarded top rating

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
The Legg Mason Brandywine Global Opportunistic Fixed Income Trust has been awarded a 'Highly Recommended' rating from research house Zenith. The product was the only one to achieve the top rating in Zenith's 2015 sector review of global fixed income ...

Super performs well in board gender diversity index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
The superannuation sector was one of the top performers in the latest rebalance of the Boardroom Diversity Index. Along with Sport, ASX100 companies and Cooperative Research Centres, Super was one of only four sectors to show gains of more than 5% in ...

PIMCO brings distribution in-house

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
PIMCO has internalised the distribution operations of its Australian fund business. Equity Trustees, which previously handled fund distribution, will transfer responsibility over to PIMCO over the coming months, though it will continue to act as the ...

How to get private equity returns from listed stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... offers. In their research paper, 'The Components of Private Equity Performance: Implications for Portfolio Choice', Windham's Mark Kritzman and State Street's William Kinlaw and Jason Mao argue that investors can capture the asset class alpha of private ...