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Retirement spending declines faster than believed: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... products aimed at retirees that assume their spending will rise in line with CPI. Currently, nearly 59% of all balanced pension funds rank their performance against CPI, Milliman said. It added that any default MyRetirement or comprehensive income product ...

Pension funds must recognise stewardship licence: WTW

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... "perfect number" for an investment committee is five as it allows for cognitive diversity. The study included 11 pension funds and four sovereign wealth funds with about $4 trillion in assets under management. These organisations ranged from 30 full-time ...

US project to end pension politics

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... this issue to the forefront," former Connecticut state treasurer Christopher B. Burnham said. Only 30% of the 6276 pension funds across US are adequately funded using optimistic actuarial assumptions, according to the institute. No pension fund is more ...

Water risk infiltrates agriculture portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... industry has attracted more than $1.6 billion from superannuation funds, and caught the eye of major Canadian and US pension funds which have ploughed more than $1 billion to the sector since 2007. Tim Lee, a partner of the food and agribusiness advisory ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires AGL assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... In September 2017, Whitehelm acquired a petroleum tank storage terminal in the Netherlands on behalf of several pension funds.

CFSGAM prepares IPO, names board candidates

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... Asia Pacific. As at 31 December 2017, CFSGAM managed $219 billion of assets on behalf of institutional investors, pension funds, wholesale distributors, investment platforms, financial advisers and their clients worldwide.

Instos lap up unlisted infrastructure: Preqin

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... correlation to other asset classes," the report said. This increased interest from institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies is raising prices and driving up the competition in the asset class, the researcher said. Institutional ...

Aussie asset manager dives into Spanish water market

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... countries and employs more than 7500 people. IFM Investors was established 22 years ago by a group of not-for-profit pension funds that sought to create an investor-owned fund manager. IFM Investors now represents more than 15 million pension fund members ...

Is climate change a risk to retirement savings?

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
Trustees at the UK's top 25 pension funds have until the end of the month to tell the British parliament what steps are being taken to safeguard $977 billion of retirement money from the impact of climate change. The Environmental Audit Committee's ...

Industry fund appoints Whitehelm as investment consultant

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... In September 2017, Whitehelm acquired a petroleum tank storage terminal in the Netherlands on behalf of several pension funds. Whitehelm agreed to acquire 90% of the shares in Vopak Terminal Eemshaven - a joint venture between Vopak, an independent tank ...