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Well over $3m in super savings needed

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
... similar comfort to what politicians and public servants enjoy on an income of $100,000 from a defined benefits pension scheme. Bewley used life expectancy tables from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and ASIC's Moneysmart capital guaranteed indicator ...

UK pensions not fussed about in-housing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
While large Australian institutions such as AustralianSuper and HOSTPLUS are increasingly turning to in-housing of their investment capabilities, the UK pensions industry remains fairly comfortable farming out management of its assets to third-party ...

Standard Life Investments appoints ESG head

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Standard Life Investments has promoted one of its senior fund managers to head of stewardship and ESG investment with Guy Jubb retiring at the end of March. Euan Stirling joined Standard Life Investments' as a UK equity analyst in 2001 from Schroder ...

UK adds SMSF after slashing Australian pension schemes

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has added an Australian pension scheme to its qualified recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) list after slashing the number of Aussie funds from 1,600 to one on July 1. From early September, the P Wyns ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...

UK pension changes to benefit Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... expats to move their British pensions out of the UK and into an HMRC-recognised [Qualified Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme] QROPS, an overseas pension in a secure, low-tax jurisdiction. "Those who transfer their pensions into a QROPS will typically ...

Morningstar names two new analysts

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... manager research." Cheang worked most recently as investment manager, manager selection at the British Telecom Pension Scheme in London for three years, where he was responsible for long-only and fund-of-fund manager selection, portfolio construction ...

Former PwC exec joins Towers Watson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
Towers Watson has appointed former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) executive Paul Taylor to the role of senior investment consultant. At PwC Taylor headed a team providing investment consulting advice to institutional clients in Australia and overseas. ...

TT International adds two to investment team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... the University Superannuation Scheme in the UK where he was a senior portfolio manager focused on Asia for the pension scheme's US$5 billion global emerging market fund. The two new men will work alongside existing partner Jeremy Ip and portfolio manager ...