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Australian infrastructure supply must lift: report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... enough projects on offer domestically. Surveying 20 global and domestic investors - including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, fund managers, developers, banks and insurance companies controlling more than $110 billion in infrastructure investments ...

AMP Capital infrastructure fund ESG leader

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... compelling prospect for infrastructure investors in Australia and also Asia where the fund is attracting interest from pension funds and other institutional investors," Cummings said. ADIT was established in 1995 and holds a diversified portfolio of ...

Tobacco and super funds must split

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... this treaty are not allowed to invest in tobacco by any means, including through sovereign wealth funds or public pension funds, though only Australia, New Zealand and Norway have implemented that provision. King cited reputational risk as an incentive ...

Aussie bonds attractive to global investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
The Commonwealth Bank is seeing an increase in global pension funds and central banks attending its events and seeking expertise to better understand the Australian bond market. Addressing the bank's ninth Annual Global Markets Conference in Sydney ...

Fidelity names Australian MD

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
... Trinity College Dublin. Fidelity International currently invests US$272 billion globally for clients ranging from pension funds, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private ...

Aussie government bond flaunts confidence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... bond market investor base by attracting investors with an appetite for very long dated maturities, for example, pension funds, life insurance companies and fund managers." He added another positive outcome from extending the yield curve is that it provides ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... on 10-year US Treasuries at 1.7% and then there are the negative interest rates that are now punishing savers and pension funds and banks. While the grace of central banks has become a boon for stock markets the world over, the growth in the real economy ...

Top pension funds slide for first time since GFC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Total assets of the 300 largest pension funds worldwide fell for the first time since the beginning of the global financial crisis, according to Willis Towers Watson research. The P&I/Willis Towers Watson global 300 report shows that in 2015, total ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... UBS expects to have the metrics in place by the end of 2017 and Bertocci says there is already interest from other pension funds in adopting them. Research provider Morningstar has recently expanded its own sustainability ratings of listed companies ...

Aussie pension pros most confident about valuations

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... 400 pension fund professionals across 20 countries, State Street found increasing life expectancy is undermining pension funds' confidence in their liability valuations, while growing allocations to alternative assets are making it harder to value investment ...