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IFM Investors wins UK pension fund mandates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
IFM Investors have won two infrastructure investment mandates worth $364 million from two UK local government pension funds, Avon Pension Fund and Dorset County Pension Fund. The mandates will be invested in IFM Investors' portfolio of core equity ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Superannuation Corporation, REST, HESTA, Sunsuper, Cbus, ESS Super, Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super. Japan's Government Pension Investment fund once again topped the list with its $1.2 trillion, and was the only fund to break into the trillion. It was ...

Citi wins custody of Norway's Oil Fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... Morgan as custodian to Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the body that manages Norway's $850 billion Government Pension Fund Global. Colloquially known as 'the Oil Fund', according to Towers Watson it is the second largest pension fund in the ...

US retirement assets reach US$23tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... retirement accounts (IRAs) totaled US$6.5 trillion, defined contribution (DC) plans accounted for US$5.9 trillion, government pension plans- including federal, state, and local government plans - accounted for US$5.6 trillion in assets, private-sector ...

Insto investors urged to challenge private equity ethics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... extractive practices that have been associated with the PE industry." Some investors, such as the Norwegian government pension fund, choose not to invest in PE firms given their lack of transparency about what they invest in, the negative effects of ...

Sovereign Wealth Funds surge to $5 trillion

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... 2012-13," Preqin head of hedge fund products Amy Bensted said. The largest sovereign wealth fund globally is Government Pension Fund - Global, based in Norway, with $775.2bn in assets under management; this is an increase of $185bn since 2012. Asia-based ...

NZ Super CEO appointed deputy chair of IFSWF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... the Oil Revenues Stabilization Fund of Mexico, the China Investment Corporation, and Norway's US$ 325 billion Government Pension Fund - aka 'the oil fund'.

Sovereign wealth funds climb to US$5.5tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... global financial crisis (GFC) and that resources continue to be the main sources of SWF capital flows. Norway's Government Pension Fund at US$737 billion was reported as the world's largest SWF followed by UAE Abu Dhabi's Investment Authority with US$627 ...

UK to consider Australia model for small pension fund mergers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Support is gathering for the UK government to follow in Australia's footsteps and merge small local authority pension funds after Financial Times research revealed huge disparities in fees paid to fund managers. According to the UK broadsheet, some ...

Govt could handcuff SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... a total loss of funds through poor and undiversified investments, would see SMSF fund members return to the government pension to fund their retirement. "There is a major risk for the federal government here, in that each fund owns what is effectively ...