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Europe to follow Australian sustainability lead

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
UK investment managers are taking tips from Australian funds on sustainable investing practices, following the launch of the Responsible Investment Academy. Seen as a leader in innovation and leadership in the field of responsible investing, Australia ...

LGS and VFMC join 'green' property movement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... funds and asset managers, representing $1.4 trillion in assets under management, including ATP, Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund, Aviva Investors and Paramount Group. Leading investment industry associations, including the Australian Council for Superannuation ...

Equiti to launch US multifamily property fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... typically a complex of multiple apartments owned by a single entity, be it a wealthy individual, a fund manager or pension fund, is widely acknowledged but it remains a relatively unknown asset class here. Equiti has teamed up with US multifamily housing ...

FSS and Health Super merger on track

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... said. First State Super has won a string of awards in the last five years for having the lowest cost super fund and pension fund, including the Money Magazine Best of the Best award and the Rainmaker SelectingSuper Retirement Fund of the Year - Value ...

Future Fund climbs sovereign league tables

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... assets of US$625 billion, funded by the export of hydrocarbons since 1976. Second largest was Norway's Government Pension Fund - Global, with US$530.6 billion followed by China's SAFE Investment Company with US$347.1 billion. Globally, sovereign wealth ...

PAS mandate review completed

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... PAS has appointed a chief investment officer, Paul Kessell, formerly chief investment officer of $9 billion-plus UK pension fund, the J Sainsbury Pension Scheme. It has also adopted a responsible investing framework and reviewed its fund manager line ...

Inflation fears raise appeal of alternative assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Alternatives are predicted to enjoy a surge of inflows over the next three years as institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds move to protect themselves against inflation. Inflation and its potential effect on institutional investing is gaining ...

Converging techniques give investors more options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
A convergence of investment techniques used by traditional and alternative managers is giving investors more confidence to try asset classes and styles they previously would have avoided, said a visiting European fund expert. "Convergence in techniques ...

Dutch pension tackles longevity risk and ageing population

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... that is not desirable at their stage of life," she said. Setting aside the likely impact on younger generations, a pension fund could look at reduce the investment risk. "In this way there is less risk to share between generations. But less risk also ...

Bank blocks pension gold

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Central bank De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) ordered Dutch pension fund SPVG to reduce its investment in gold from 13 per cent of its portfolio to three per cent or less. SPVG, the pension fund of glassworks company Vereenigde Glasfabrieken, has been given ...