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QIC hires senior infrastructure execs

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
QIC has hired two senior infrastructure executives to lead its US and UK/European infrastructure operations. Geoff Chatas will lead the infrastructure business in North America from the firm's New York City office and Giles Tucker will lead the UK and ...

QIC appoints independent investment chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
Paul Costello has been appointed independent chairman of the QIC Global Infrastructure Investment Committee. Previously managing director of the Future Fund and New Zealand Superannuation Fund's first chief executive, Costello began his new role at ...

NZ Super and Infratil buy RetireAustralia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2015
New Zealand Super has joined forces with Infratil to buy major Australian aged care facility operator RetireAustralia. The sovereign wealth fund and the asset manager will take 50% each after entering into a sale and purchase agreement worth $640.2 ...

NZ Super Fund takes big stake in LanzaTech

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSF) has taken a 17% stake in gas-to-liquid company LanzaTech. The stake, purchased for invested $US60 million ($A64.92 million) values the company at about $US400 million and makes the super fund the second-biggest ...

NZ Super terminates AMP Capital mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has terminated AMP Capital's New Zealand active equities mandate, effective from 30 October. The value of the mandate was NZ$257.5 million ($228.8 million). AMP Capital was appointed to the mandate in 2003. The decision ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... from a five year annual rate of 11.9% to 3.7%. Some institutions, like the Future Fund Management Agency and New Zealand Super Fund, have no on-going consultant relationship and instead do the research themselves. Despite this, neither consultants nor ...

NZ Super CEO higher paid than Aussie counterparts

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund pays chief executive Adrian Orr considerably more than many of Australia's highest profile not-for-profit super fund chief executives. In its 2014 annual report, the NZ Super Fund revealed that Orr received NZ$791,462 ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Cbus and the New Zealand Super Fund have joined a number of international investors backing Mercer's new study of the investment risks and returns under climate change scenarios. Mercer said the study would be "framed by several plausible climate scenarios ...

Get ready for activist members, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
Superannuation funds should prepare for an increased scrutiny of their investments from members, regulators and activists, according to New Zealand Superannuation Fund manager for responsible investment Anne-Maree O'Connor. Speaking at the Australian ...

Canadian pension fund buys AMP NZ property portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
One of Canada's largest pension investors, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has bought a complete portfolio of New Zealand properties managed by AMP Capital worth NZ$1 billion. AMP Capital said the sale would allow investors, which include ...