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US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
US pension funds have issued a rallying call to President Barack Obama and Members of Congress to act immediately on US debt or risk long term damage to the country's retirement savings. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) released ...

Super funds drop fees after merger

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... Funds 2011 in Sydney on Wednesday, said it was one of the conditions of the deal. Taylor told professionals from the pension fund industry attending the conference that the fees of both funds had been reduced. Cuesuper's asset management fee had been ...

Instos go direct as hedge funds industry moves

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
Institutions are seeking direct and customised hedge fund investments in favour of commingled fund of hedge funds, as the alternative asset class attempts to reinvent itself. A new report from State Street, Hedge Funds: Rebuilding on a New Foundation ...

Consultant warns super funds on alternative rush

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... Condon. A recent study by Towers Watson showed that allocations to alternative assets now account for 19% of global pension fund assets, up from 5% in 1996. Australian funds continue to demonstrate a home bias, heavily invested in infrastructure and ...

Super funds chase CPI linked assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... CBD office buildings." According to Towers Watson, allocations to alternative assets now account for 19% of global pension fund assets, up from 5% in 1996. Despite an apparent drop in private equity and hedge fund investments, Barry said there was a ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Super funds modeling their investment strategies on the highly successful Yale Endowment Fund should be careful, warns an academic. The Yale Endowment Fund (YEF) is famous for the high returns it achieves from investment in private equity funds, returns ...

UK Pensions Regulator seeks fee transparency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... schemes. In response to a recent industry discussion paper, the regulator said it had received unanimous support that pension fund costs should be clear, simple and comparable. It called for pension schemes to voluntarily provide a template to be used ...

Investment head concerned by super approach

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... Management's global head of consultant relations, Tim Gardener said that while he was usually buoyed by the Australian pension fund market, there are some obvious factions within it. "The one element that doesn't energise me in Australia is people saying ...

Aust foreign finance subsidiaries worth $71b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... staff, revealed a new ABS finance sector survey. Recording $28 billion in offshore sales in 2009-10, insurance and pension fund services comprised 63% of this total, insurance services 29% and the remaining 8% were auxiliary services to these industries. ...

Funds ignoring foreign exchange risk

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
Australian funds can materially improve their returns over time without taking on extra chunks of risk by taking foreign currency exchange more seriously, the Financial Standard Currency Management Forum heard yesterday. According to Troy Rieck, managing ...