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Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

US church pension ramps up Asia-Pac presence

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
The Church Pension fund, a US-based pension fund with $9 billion in assets, opens an office in Hong Kong as it bulks up its portfolio in Asian real estate and private equity assets. According to oversees news reports, the fund has hired Mason - who ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
APRA is continuing plans to ramp up its data collections, in particular to collect performance data on individual investment options. To refine its approaches the regulator has issued another discussion paper on how it should be done, how it should ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
APRA, ASIC and the RBA have released a report that identifies where major fund managers and super funds can improve in terms of how they manage OTC derivatives in the wake of the credit crisis. This month the regulators and the RBA released the findings ...

Cbus CEO competes for UN PRI seat

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
AustralianSuper has nominated Cbus chief executive David Atkin to sit on the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) board. Atkin replaced Sandy Grant as chief executive at Cbus in November 2007. Prior to that position, Atkin worked ...

To Scotland we will go

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009

One in six DB funds in trouble: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
APRA has revealed that last year 15.9 per cent of defined benefit (DB) superannuation funds were in an "unsatisfactory financial position" and that things are now likely to be worse. "APRA's survey of all defined benefit and hybrid superannuation funds ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Ultra high net worth investors in Australia are starting to wade back into the Australian Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) market, according to Merrill Lynch. Chris Selby, head of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management in Australia, has ...

Mercer wins NGS Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The $2.6 billion industry super fund NGS Super has appointed Mercer as its administrator and financial advice provider to its members. Mercer announced yesterday its appointment to oversee the non-Government schools industry fund's member services ...

Aon welcomes insurance transfers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
The $1.6 billion Aon Master Trust is ramping up its insurance initiatives when it recently offered its existing members insurance transfers with no health evidence required. Aon announced it is offering its existing members the chance to transfer their ...