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Pension fund head gets jail sentence

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
The former head of a Swiss teachers' pension fund has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after being convicted of a string of offences including fraud and embezzlement. UK-based publication online publication IPE.com reported Ignace Rey, the ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Asset consultant Frontier, which has $91 billion in funds under advice, has sent a letter last week to all the external fund managers of its super fund clients to consider charging flat dollar fees, instead of asset-based fees, on their investment mandates. ...

Canadian pensions stage Q3 recovery

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Canadian pensions have bounced back in the third quarter of this year, with local bonds and global shares the major contributors to the recovery. According to a RBC Dexia Investor Services survey, which monitors Canadian pension plans and money managers ...

CalPERS reviews US$50m fees to placement agent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
The largest public pension fund in the US, CalPERS, is to investigate "success fees" paid to placement agents by its external fund managers after a disclosure report found more than US$50 million in fees were paid to a placement agency ran by a former ...

Private equity firms sign PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
In a sign of the times, two of the country's leading private equity firms, Ironbridge Capital Australia and CHAMP Private Equity have signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). The UN PRI is used as a blueprint for pension ...

AMP appoints multi asset group head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
AMP Capital Investors has appointed David Kiddie in a new role as head of the Multi Asset Group. Kiddie will report to AMP Capital Investors managing director Stephen Dunne, effective 4 November 2009. Kiddie has 25 years experience in the investment ...

Agriculture wins pension fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Australian superannuation funds are 18 months behind their UK counterparts which are increasingly awarding mandates to agriculture investments, said an industry expert. Charlie Blomfield, managing director of Carthona Agriculture, said increasing mandates ...

Revamp member education: Ezra

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... members on how to use credit cards, how to save money and borrowing appropriately. Citing US research, Ezra said pension fund members that choose their own investment portfolio underperform the default fund with the same investment risk by around 1 per ...

Lucky country

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... 13 per cent in US dollar terms during 2008 to $12 trillion. The US remains the country with the largest share of pension fund assets in the world, accounting for 41 per cent, down from 43 per cent last year.

Trust in escrow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Local instos are busily combing the market for bargain investments following the GFC - but with the threat of counterparty risk looming larger today than in any other point of the current economic cycle, many are snubbing standard contracts in favour ...