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Industry fund backs US toll road

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... largely put down to a sale of Moto Hospitality, a chain of service stations in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile Canadian pension funds have flagged their interest in Australian infrastructure.

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension funds have 32% of their ...

Vanguard notches fourth successive year of record inflows

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... believe the trust's long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors - whether pension funds, institutions or individuals - who employ high-fee managers."

Former Mercer consultant launches research platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... junior research analyst. The platform is already receiving interest with a number of unnamed "large US and Australian pension funds" taking trial versions. "DiligenceVault means anyone can be a research house and get access to the underlying data. This ...

Default super should have base ESG standard: RIAA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... want their retirement savings managed," the RIAA paper said. "For similar reasons, the vast majority of European pension funds have in place at least one voluntary exclusion, to reflect the expectations of the beneficiaries." Hosting its annual responsible ...

Global divesting institutions reach 500

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... part of the campaign are faith-based groups, followed by foundations (25%), governmental organisations (13%) and pension funds (13%). For-profit corporations account for 3% of the total. A total of 113 Australian institutions have joined the campaign ...

Pessimistic investment horizon for super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... (GFC). Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) chair Martin Skancke said few asset owners, and particularly pension funds, are engaged about what a good market place looks like even though they are seeing the most fundamental transformation of the ...

Super funds should engage in pub theory

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... people think about retirement. "We got interesting coverage among newspapers nationally. We used to get stories about pension funds being rip-offs but all of a sudden we were getting these positive stories. Tens of thousands of people were also viewing ...

UK regulator targets conflicts in investment consulting

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... competition and conflicts of interest within the asset management industry in its sights. The heads of the UK's largest pension funds have called for stricter oversights in the investment consulting industry amid concerns consultants are increasingly ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
Many pension funds and insurance companies around the world are staring insolvency in the face unless they adopt measures that address an imbalance between assets and liabilities. This is the view of OECD director financial and enterprise affairs, and ...