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No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
The largest pension fund in the US, CalPERS, will not pay the pensions of certain City of Bell staff following investigations into salary corruption among some of the city's top officials. The California Public Employees' Retirement System said it would ...

CalPERS deploys US$500m into ESG, OTPP buys Chunnel link

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
North American pension funds have been actively pursuing investment opportunities this week, and in typically unconventional fashion. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested $500 million into a new internally managed ...

Gen Yers want advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
If you think the majority of people who seek insurance and consolidation advice are older Australians, then think again - new research shows fund members aged 25 and below are the primary seekers of single issue advice. John McMurtrie, chief executive ...

GVI hires new joint MD

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... senior portfolio manager at Pictet Asset Management, and investment roles with Salomon Smith Barney and Abbey National Pension Fund. GVI head of investments, managing director Roy Chen said Cullens would bring significant investment experience to the ...

Toll roads lead global $50bn M&A activity

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
Infrastructure investments worldwide are due to attract at least $50 billion from pension and sovereign funds over the next two years with toll roads at the top of the buy list. According to the latest UBS report, there are a number of major takeover ...

Hungary private pension breakdown

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... ABP, a $327 billion civil service scheme, recorded a 5.7 per cent investment return while $198 billion healthcare pension fund PFZW reported a return of 6.9 per cent with a decline in funding by 1 per cent.

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Despite having the world's fourth largest investment market to source funding from, Australian fund managers have once again failed to crack the world's top 100, new figures show. According to a study conducted by Towers Watson and Pension & Investments ...

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board upgrades tech

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... outsourced to a third party. The $130 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the world's 12th largest pension fund according to Towers Watson, has gone live with SimCorp Dimension, as it undergoes the process of internalising portfolio ...

CalPERS shifts $1bn to GID

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
US pension fund CalPERS has consolidated its $1.1 billion core multifamily apartment portfolio to long-term partner GID Investment Advisers LLC (GID). The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said that it made the decision to advance ...

Commercial property sales rebound: CBRE

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Commercial property transactions above $5 million rebounded to $2.6 billion in the third quarter, up 268 per cent sequentially and up 75 per cent on last year, according to figures released by CB Richard Ellis. And while Australian super funds are dipping ...