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• Sunsuper snaps up secondary property deal

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Sunsuper was one of many investors that bought into a $500 million direct property secondaries offering from another domestic institution in the past week and a half. ...

• We take it all back: Russell re-insources super admin from IBM

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Russell Investments has dramatically reversed its 2006 decision to outsource administration of its 220,000 super member accounts to IBM. ...

• Bonds back on the menu for Aussie funds

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Australian super funds' relatively low exposure to bonds is set to rise, as funds including HESTA reassess the role that assets like hedge fund-of-funds have previously played in their 'defensive' portfolios. ...

• One down, one to go for NAB in Queensland

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Greg Bright

  NAB Asset Servicing faces its second big Queensland tender decision within a month now, following its appointment as QSuper’s first master custodian. ...

• IE Group names panel banks for super cash service

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The four major banks, as well as the super funds-owned ME Bank and fund manager Goldman Sachs JBWere’s cash trust, have been appointed to the initial panel of the investment efficiency management firm IE Group. ...

• Prime Super reviews admin, eyes asset consulting

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Prime Super, the $1 billion, 150,000-member super fund for rural workers, will review its member administration arrangements, and is also making some fundamental changes to the 'two portfolio' approach championed by its asset consultant, Access Capital Ad...

• Aust Unity hires new insto sales head from rival manager

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has recruited from a competing boutique manager, Bennelong Funds Management, for its new head of institutional sales. ...

• Giant corporate fund gets first CIO

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The $6 billion Officers Superannuation Fund for Commonwealth Bank employees has appointed its first chief investment officer, as chairperson Neal Cochrane continues his search for an inaugral chief executive officer at the 64,000-member fund. ...

• One in five Aussies can't name their super fund

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Only around 16 per cent of Australians are actively involved in the management of their super, and more than one in five can't even name a super fund of which they're a member, according to national research commissioned by GESB, the WA public sector fund...

• Vision Super CEO to retire on merger eve

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The chief executive officer of Vision Super intends to officially retire the day before the fund merges with Equipsuper, an event scheduled for July 1, 2013. ...

• JANA rounds out long/short fund with Tribeca mandate

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Greg Bright

  JANA Investment Consulting has appointed the alpha extension fund of Tribeca Investment Partners to one of its implemented consulting multi-manager funds, with a mandate of more than $100 million. ...

• New master for State Super Financial Services' $8bn

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  State Super Financial Services, which advises on $8.3 billion predominantly on behalf of retired NSW public servants, has drawn from the senior ranks of an asset consultant for its new chief investment officer. ...

• Series' pan-Asia boutique staffs up for debt strategy

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Eight Investment Partners, the pan-Asia boutique, has appointed an executive director to implement a credit capability to be run alongside Kerry Series’ equity strategy. ...

• Rice Warner to revise clearing house report

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Philippa Yelland

  Rice Warner Actuaries is revising its report to private clearing house SuperChoice on Medicare’s clearing house for small employers, due to concerns about data and incorrect conclusions. ...

• Funds tell Feds to get it together on SG

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Philippa Yelland

  Bipartisan support is needed for the Superannuation Guarantee to increase to 12 per cent, according to the super industry’s five peak bodies, who competed with the aggrieved mining sector for airtime in Canberra yesterday. ...

• Scottish coup prompts new emerging markets fund

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Greg Bright

  Martin Currie Investment Management will bring forward its plans to launch an Australia-domiciled emerging markets fund following a coup in which the Edinburgh-based firm lured a team of specialists from a local rival. ...

• Zenith to move into insto advice with alternatives expansion

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Greg Bright

  Zenith Investment Partners has recruited an experienced hedge fund researcher to spearhead a move into institutional asset consulting. ...

• MTAA Super trustee owners seek transparency

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The owners of five of the 11 units in MTAA Super's trustee company will demand details on its direct employment of staff for the $6 billion fund, following the severance of a contract with Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA Ltd) to provide the se...

• Big seed mandate for ex-Alliance growth boutique

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Greg Bright

  A $200 million seed mandate and backoffice support are understood to have lured AllianceBernstein's growth equities team into boutiquedom. ...

• Colonial First State GAM set for Kiwi injection

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: David Chaplin and Michael Bailey

  First it was Crowded House, then Russell Crowe, now NZ$5 billion could be headed over the Tasman as the investment arm of the Auckland Savings Bank is wound down, at the behest of its owner, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). ...