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Professional Associations Super targets investment risk

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... risk in an effort to explore how risks should be mitigated or exploited. Focusing on exposure to primary risks such as sovereign default and deflation, the fund is aiming to improve investment outcomes in addition to ensuring the fund is ready for APRA's ...

More infra investors going direct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... are also attracting interest but not as intensely given the extra difficulties in project structuring and more complex sovereign risk. Infrastructure investing among Australian superannuation funds and investment managers amounts to an estimated $100 ...

Future Fund builds Aust infra exposure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... transaction, two CP2 clients have a continuing investment in Transurban. CP2 manages money for overseas pension and sovereign wealth funds.

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... about. Just last night, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reminded us of this, declaring that the relative calm over the sovereign debt crisis was just a "phase". "Concerning the development of the crisis, we cannot say today that it is over, we still ...

EU action has done little but buy time: Aberdeen

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
The solutions the EU has implemented to combat the Eurozone sovereign crisis are only magnifying the inherent problems of the union structure, according to Aberdeen Asset Management. Paul Griffiths, global head of fixed income for Aberdeen said many ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... some good economic data and some good performances in the US market, particularly, and also an easing of concerns on sovereign debt issues in Europe," Mr Russell said. "But I think one of the focuses really for Australian markets in the eyes of the international ...

Gonski appointed new chair of Future Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... and transparency" since its inception in 2006, and would remain as the honorary chair of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds until 2013. Along with Gonski Steven Harker was appointed to the Future Fund board for a five year term, replacing ...

Southeastern targets instos with Australian expansion

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... has already attracted local institutional mandates worth A$1.4bn, including a developed market equity mandate from the sovereign Future Fund. "Southeastern focuses on developing relationships with like-minded investors who share our long-term horizon ...

Social infrastructure not suited to pension funds: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... unsuited to pension funds: in-built political risk and limited asset pool size. Political risk refers to legislative and sovereign risk, while limited asset pool size, which in the UK is estimated at about $A200 billion, refers to the market for social ...

Global govt bonds downgrade: Towers Watson

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... easing absorbing a significant share of government bond supply while the stock of safe assets reduced due to the European sovereign debt and US mortgage crises. "Intermediate interest rates have fallen to very low levels. We think they now offer a very ...