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Superannuation

CAAM capitalises on crisis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) is steering its alternative investment strategies towards credit markets to capitalise on mispricing within the sector.

Even Macquarie has to pay for funding

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Macquarie Group chief financial officer Greg Ward reported yesterday that the group has been paying between 15 and 30 basis points more for funding since the credit market liquidity crisis hit in July.

Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
The Rudd Labor Government has called on senior government officials to form the Financial Services Working Group, aimed at dealing with financial services advice and disclosure issues.

QIC tops up Pengana mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
QIC has boosted its mandate to Pengana Capital's Global Volatility Fund by $111.5 million, three months after it gave the fund an initial $167 million fund injection.

ASSET switches to Integrity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
ASSET Super has granted a $75 million Australian equities mandate to Integrity Investment Management, a deal that ends the super fund's four-year relationship with Concord Capital.

AustralianSuper and Mercer now a tag team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
One of the country's largest superannuation funds, AustralianSuper, has recruited global consulting firm, Mercer, as its specialist service provider for its $1.6 billion corporate division.

Equity Trustees super six times bigger

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Equity Trustees Limited has increased its superannuation business by $542 million over a four-year period thanks to the cumulative power of minor acquisitions.

Member protection costs will hurt: AUSfund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
Super fund managers should consider placing inactive members into eligible rollover funds to reduce member protection costs, according to AUSfund.

Industry funds target HNW

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Industry Fund Financial Planning (IFFP) is set to provide its high net worth clients an extended financial planning service covering a range of products including direct equities and margin lending.

English FX specialist turns local

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Uk-based foreign exchange and payments specialist, Caxton FX, has made the leap into the Australian forex market - throwing a fresh challenge to banking institutions that have traditionally been the dominant players in the forex sector.