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Man wins $1.08 billion mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
Man Investments has won a $1.08 billion managed account mandate from one of the biggest pension funds in the UK, the $46 billion Universities Superannuation Scheme. The mandate will be managed from Man's UK headquarters and investment team, said Kit ...

Credit Suisse adds to transition team

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Credit Suisse has appointed Tom Wyse to the firm's pension strategies and transition management division. Wyse joins Credit Suisse from Deutsche Bank's portfolio trading and transition management team in Sydney, where he was involved with local super ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
A US retirement assembly has backed a bill treating placement agents as "lobbyists", in a bid to help protect the integrity of the nation's two largest public pension funds. Assembly member Ed Hernandez, who helped author the bill, said the vote meant ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
A UK pension fund association that represents more than $1 trillion has put the world's fund managers on notice and demanded they take their role as shareholders far more seriously. Lindsay Tomlinson, chair at the National Association of Pension Funds ...

Transurban deal off Future Fund table

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
The $66 billion Future Fund has terminated discussions with two Canadian pension funds on buying Transurban. The Future Fund Board of Guardians released a statement yesterday, stating it has "terminated discussions with the Canada Pension Plan Investment ...

Perennial gains intl insto mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
Perennial Investment Partners is attracting more investment mandates from offshore clients into its global property fund. Brian Thomas, head of retail funds management at Perennial, said the fund manager has focused on gaining more international investors ...

State Street continues British Airways mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... State Street has won a mandate to continue servicing the British Airways Pension Trustees's 14 (A$23) billion UK pension fund. State Street will provide British Airways with custody, accounting, performance measurement, securities lending, trade matching ...

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... investment strategy and portfolio updates. The institute has modeled the index' principles on the Norway's Government Pension Fund-Global, which it said is one of the best examples of transparency in the world. The Future Fund scored nine out of a possible ...

Russell in hiring spree, Elkins departs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
Russell Investments has announced more than 20 new specialist appointments to its Australian team and appointed Steve Schubert as managing director of superannuation, replacing current head Linda Elkins. Among the key appointments is Steve Schubert ...

Pensions fail to direct manager voting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
The majority of investment managers say they vote most of their pension fund clients' proxies at their own discretion - without instructions or guidance from their clients. New research from the Shareholder Association for Research and Education showed ...