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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... was still short of the two-thirds support it needs from retirees to cut pension payouts, raising the prospect its pension fund will be dissolved in step with a bankruptcy filing. Analysts said investor wariness about what would happen had weighed on ...

Future Fund mulls Transurban investment

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
The Future Fund is considering an investment in toll-road operator Transurban and is in preliminary discussions with the Canadian pension funds that proposed to buy the infrastructure group in October. On October 27, the Canada Pension Plan Investment ...

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... million through this investigation for the retirement fund and the state. As these sums return value to the state pension fund, we continue to pursue the critical reforms that are necessary to prevent such rampant abuse from again corrupting the pension ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... Thrift Savings Plan, that uses Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) to deliver total fees of just 0.15 per cent. Thrift is a US pension fund used by four million federal government civilian and uniformed employees. It has $A220 billion under management. With ...

CalSTRS adopts engagement code

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... explain why. CalSTRS has more than $127 billion in funds under management (FUM), representing the second largest pension fund in the US.

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... the due diligence report after they've handed the cheque. Worse, even when the report comes back with bad news, the pension fund don't take their money out. He said pension funds must do it the other way around and get the due diligence report first ...

CalPERS champions placement agent reform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... steps to make sure that their retirement system won't be victimised in any way." CalPERS is the US' largest public pension fund with approximately more than $200 billion in market assets. It provides retirement benefits to more than 1.6 million State ...

Cheap linkers up for grabs: Credit Agricole

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Inflation-linked bonds might still trail nominal bonds by 4 per cent in performance - but the gap is closing. Isabelle Vic-Philippe, head of duration & inflation management team at Credit Agricole Asset Management, told a media briefing yesterday that ...

AMP signs MOU with China Life

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
AMP has become the first foreign financial institution to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for Strategic Cooperation with China Life Insurance Company, the largest insurance group in China and the world's biggest listed life insurance firm. The MOU ...

Canadian pensions pounce on Aus toll road firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
The Canada Pension Plan and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, two of the biggest pension plans in Canada, set its sights on Australian-based toll road owner and operator group, Transurban. Australia's super fund infrastructure asset strategy appears to ...