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Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... largely from the yield on a physical asset. Meanwhile, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest pension fund in the US with more than $220 billion in assets, also has its own definition of the asset class. The pension fund's Alternative ...

Sign Say on Pay: CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... improved accountability to investors and the creation of long-term share value." CalPERS is the largest U.S. public pension fund with approximately more than $200 billion in assets. It administers retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million active ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... your weekly expenses but also how your pension savings are being invested. According to Towers Watson, a typical pension fund in France invests 33 per cent of retirement savings in equities and a higher 46 per cent in bonds. By contrast, a typical pension ...

Norwegian pension excludes tobacco firms

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance is excluding the $518 billion Government Pension Fund Global from investing in 17 tobacco companies including British American Tobacco, Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco. The Ministry of Finance drafted rules states the ...

Property funds under green watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Three European pension funds with more than $500 billion in assets are using their investment muscle to force property companies and fund managers to stay on top of their environmental policies, following the release of a new green property benchmark. ...

Macquarie wins mandate from Mexico

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
Macquarie Group is eyeing Mexican infrastructure this new year, following the launch of a new infrastructure fund and winning $294 million in mandates from seven Mexican pension funds. In a press statement released late last week, Macquarie announced ...

... and transparency strategy to benefit Aussie funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... Retirement System, one of the US' biggest funds, has released more than 600 placement agent disclosures obtained by the pension fund from its external investment managers. Amid this information are details on mandates and fees on proposed new investments ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
The largest US pension fund responds to mounting concerns about the true nature of the pension fund-placement agent-fund manager relationship by revealing the details of more than 600 placement agent disclosures to the public. The disclosures - received ...

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 ...