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• Funds forced to consider inflation hedging: Watson Wyatt

  Created: Tuesday, 01 December 2009 00:00 Author: Philippa Yelland

  Volatile inflation post-GFC will force funds to consider hedging, said Watson Wyatt’s Robert Brown, chair of its global investment committee. ...

• How many super funds is the right number?

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 12:02 Author: Greg Bright

  There hasn’t been a good political stoush in the superannuation industry for some time. The main game in recent years has been adequacy, with debate involving not whether we should be saving more but, rather, how we go about it. Enter Jeremy Cooper, dra...

• Truth in transition management

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 11:58 Author: Michael Bailey

  Well, I’ve done it. In researching this month’s cover story, I’ve spoken to every single transition manager currently offering their services in Australia. I’d like to be able to report, with apologies to Jeremy Cooper, that the super fund dog is ...

• Why Cbus needs its Government man

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Chief executive of the $13 billion Cbus, David Atkin, has outlined the specific causes on which the industry fund's new executive manager of policy and government will aim to provide value to members. ...

• Superpartners winds down Syncsoft relationship

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Superpartners is in negotiations with the provider of its new administration platform, Synchronised Software, which are expected to result in the administrator taking greater control of the platform's further development, while the revelation that Superpa...

• How sweet it is: JP Morgan gets to flick NAB

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:00 Author: Greg Bright

  Laurence Bailey is a patient person. He first expressed interest in buying ANZ Custody, on behalf of the then Chase Manhattan Bank, about nine years ago. Last year he put in what would probably have been a winning bid only to see the ANZ business withdr...

• TWU Super buys more hedge fund-of-fund exposure

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  The $2 billion TWU Super has reinforced its commitment to hedge funds by investing a further $100 million in the strategies, and flagging further mandates in 2010. ...

• Solaris nets $100m for starters with FirstChoice

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Solaris Investment Management gained an up-front $100 million mandate for being grouped into a multi-manager product on the Colonial First State (CFS) FirstChoice platform, as a growth boutique was ousted in the manager swap. ...

• BlackRock's ex-marketer lands new job

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Jean-Luc Ambrosi, the former head of marketing at BlackRock, will soon begin work at another funds management giant. ...

• Fortis foregone: Insto clean sweep for BNP Paribas Investment Partners

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The chief executive of Fortis Investments Australia, and his two insto sales lieutenants, have failed to secure ongoing positions following the merger with BNP Paribas Investment Partners Australia, part of the global sale of Fortis Bank to BNP Paribas. ...

• Emerging markets for the long term: go for liquidity, capacity and low costs

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Sonia Han

  It is not too late to get on board the big theme of a shift in world growth away from the developed and towards the developing world, but super funds should be aware of costs and risks in some investment sectors of emerging markets, according to Watson Wy...

• Reports of hedge fund-of-funds' death greatly exaggerated

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The hedge fund-of-fund manager for the Amcor corporate superannuation fund has raised $500 million globally in the past year, which it claims is payback for its unleveraged investment style and refusal to impose redemption gates even as its FUM was halved...

• AMP demonstrates importance of Asia despite AXA proposal

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Sonia Han

  AMP has become the first foreign institution to sign a memorandum of understanding for a strategic alliance in asset management and pensions with China Life Insurance, the biggest insurer in China. ...

• Financial types, and Deni Hines, get behind Oasis Africa

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Greg Bright

  Oasis Africa’s annual fund raising, with strong support from the financial services sector, has secured singer Deni Hines as an ambassador and to entertain attendees on the night – December 2, at Blue Hotel, Woolloomooloo.   ...

• ANZ Custody back on the block

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Greg Bright

  The business of ANZ Custody is back on the market, but with a big ING-flavoured sweetener for prospective buyers. ...

• New small caps challenger from the ranks of Paradice, Mouatt

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Michael Glennon, who worked with Peter Mouatt at small-caps boutique Adam Smith Asset Management, has launched a new venture after splitting from the business. ...

• Hazel McNeilage gets big QIC job

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Hazel McNeilage, the former head of asset consulting at Towers Perrin who was instrumental in its Total Risk Management purchase, will return to Australia and the public sector super milieu after spending six years offshore with Principal Global Investors...

• NSW State Super brings investment strategy, research all-rounder on board

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  The $38 billion NSW State Super has appointed a new investment analyst to its internal team. ...

• Credit Suisse Sydney team pulls off regional first

  Created: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  A large pension fund has ploughed $80 million into the Asia-Pacific region's first life settlements swap,  in a deal organised by Credit Suisse's Sydney-based fixed interest investment banking team. ...

• AllianceBernstein business to be chopped

  Created: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:00 Author: David Chaplin

  AllianceBernstein’s New Zealand NZ$4 billion funds management unit has been placed under review with staff this week considering options for the business. ...