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Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
Pension funds are loading up on alternative investments in response to declining asset returns according to an annual report from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Pension funds in the UK and US are reported to be driving the shift with the ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... OECD, World Bank, G20 and B20, is currently being presented by Industry Super Australia to international regulators, pension funds and representatives from leading global economic forums in the United States and UK who are also seeking financing solutions ...

Infrastructure allocations up 14% in two years

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... reach $9 trillion by 2025. The Preqin research also shows that the commonest type of investor in the top 100 is pension funds - which, as discussed in the latest issue of Financial Standard, are typically the only institutions large enough to deploy ...

Super delivers 12.2% for year end April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Personal funds by their balanced options were HostPlus, Fiducian, Aust Ethical, Equip Super and Intrust. The top 5 pension funds by their balanced options were HESTA, UniSuper, Qsuper, Sunsuper, and HOSTPLUS and MTAA Super. While super funds are performing ...

Independence on super boards should be skills based

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... towards prescription of minimum qualifications for directors. This is based around an analysis of the extent to which pension funds require structural independence on their boards. The research also provides a comparison with Australian superannuation ...

Risk management top worry for asset owners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... perspectives in the current low yield environment. About one quarter of the global asset owners (23%) - which included pension funds, insurance companies and other financial services institutions - listed risk management becoming more complex as the ...

QIC inks $1bn infrastructure deal with CalPERS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... infrastructure partnership with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the United States. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source, create and manage a portfolio of Asia-Pacific ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... 420 chief executive officers, chief investment officers, portfolio managers and directors at private and public pension funds, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds in America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... divestment and negative screens in certain sectors. The AODP surveyed the world's 500 largest asset owners, including pension funds, insurance funds, sovereign funds, foundations and endowment funds across five categories: transparency, risk management ...

Super funds too small for activism

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... about in North America are at least double the biggest Australian pension fund." Credit Suisse said that American pension funds are "much more likely to have the resources to investigate alternative strategies like activism." But the paper noted that ...