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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 ...

IFM director wins prestigious award

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
Industry Funds Management (IFM) executive director Michael Hanna won the 2010 Hugh DT Williamson Performance scholarship for 2010. The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) chose Hanna over five other finalists due to his 'ability to ...

Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Fund managers are casting their nets wider into the Asia Pacific region to deliver 'alpha', shunning China and India to boost their portfolio returns, a survey found. The RBC Capital Markets survey reported high levels of confidence in Asian equity ...

CalPERS returns 12.5pc in 2010

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the US, achieved a 12.5 percent net return on investments for the 2010 calendar year, pushing its assets under management to US$225.7 billion. While the returns mark the second straight calendar year of double-digit ...

Asian Giants lands in China

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... commitments, of which approximately 20 per cent is invested. Recently, the fund secured its first UK public authority pension fund client and a Japanese pension fund investor, with commitments of approximately US$66 million in total. AMP expects to close ...

Aussies embrace US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
After a tumultuous few years, US real estate could be set for gains next year, and Australia's largest super funds are becoming alert to the opportunities. According to Principal Real Estate Investors, despite uncertainty over the macroeconomic situation ...