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Super fund private equity inflows constant

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... (AVCAL) said Asian investors are investing in the local private equity market either through fund-to-fund or direct pension fund investments, while local pension funds remain active. "Australia has remained constant although people are fearful that Australians ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
It's now exactly one hour to midnight in Brussels as I write this and so far all we have is wishing and hoping and praying that all those seated around the negotiating table Yes Virginia, there's still no news out on whether the EU finmins did or didn't ...

AustralianSuper talks scale, further growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... Australian super market, but we are not huge." Curtis said he recently spoke with the chief operating officer of US pension fund CalPERS who said that she didn't expect scale to kick in until they hit $500 billion, saying it was all a state of growth. ...

GM shuts down DB fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
General Motors has bowed to the inevitable and announced it will shut its defined benefit pension fund and move salaried employees into the company's accumulation 401(k) scheme, citing balance sheet risk. The car manufacturing world heavy weight got ...

IFM wins $500m CalSTRS mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
In one of the largest single infrastructure investments by a US fund manager, CalSTRS has awarded a $500 million mandate to Australian manager, IFM, to gain exposure to the global infrastructure market. The California State Teachers' Retirement System ...

Super assets soar with 17% annual growth rate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... allocation towards DC funds has allowed it to avoid impact to its corporate and government balance sheets. Meanwhile, pension fund balance sheets weakened globally during 2011 despite a growth in assets to US$28 trillion, up $2 trillion from 2010. According ...

NAB injects £130 million into UK Pension Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012

MLC cuts PDS down on flagship products

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
In accordance with the Government's June 22 deadline, MLC has cut the PDS for two of its flagship products to the required eight-page short-form after already releasing a short-form PDS for its MLC MasterKey Business Super in November last year. The ...

CFSGAM: REITS are a safe bet

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
Institutional investors are missing out on discounted, transparent and volatility-safer assets by following the traditional investment strategy of bricks and mortar property assets, said one CFSGAM portfolio manager. Antoinette Plater, senior portfolio ...

Women in Super scholarship winner announced

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
Cathy Powell, an employer services representative at BUSS(Q), has won the $10,000 Women in Super 2012 Global Dialogue Scholarship. Selected by a panel of senior Women in Super (WIS) members including Fiona Reynolds from Australian Institute of Superannuation ...