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Super funds blend ETFs into investment strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... investment strategies, high fees are becomingly increasingly difficult to justify." HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia said that the fund does not invest through ETFs. "We are not going to be going down that path because we want to beat the ...

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... the 2014 Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Awards held in Melbourne last night. When Sam Sicilia's name was announced as this year's recipient of the annual Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Award, the audience broke into ...

Highest paid execs in super revealed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... Delaney earned $971,114; and First State Super's Richard Brandweiner earned $812,000. HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia, however, earned just over $500,000, considerably less than his chief executive officer David Elia, who earned $683,265. ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... super fund clients see any signs that the role of investment advisers will diminish. HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia, whose fund has an internal investment team, said he's seen the death of asset consultants predicted a number of times. ...

Get ready for activist members, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... session, which included Perpetual portfolio manager Nathan Parkin, was chaired by HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia. Sicilia said that larger super funds are having the role of active investor thrust upon them, simply because of their size. ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... holdings disclosure from alternatives managers in order to meet reporting standards, HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. Sicilia said that if the managers refuse to provide the information the super fund should "be prepared to terminate ...

HOSTPLUS nearly ready for SMSF infra investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... pending the approval of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the fund's chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. The option will allow SMSF investors to take advantage of HOSTPLUS' scale as an institutional investor to access ...

HOSTPLUS targets SMSFs with direct infra option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... those members who want to have exposure to infrastructure assets to invest directly in that investment option." But Sam Sicilia, HOSTPLUS' chief investment officer, said the option was targeted more specifically at investment from SMSFs. "When we thought ...

Club Plus climbs aboard DI bandwagon

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... Fund." But not everyone in the industry has expressed such enthusiasm. Recently HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia said he did not think direct investment was in the interest of many members. However, he conceded that the development of direct ...

Fund manager dismisses super fund fee demands

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... that those managers make up a very small part of the universe," Miller continued. HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia is a firm believer in getting the best possible price for fund managers' services but said no super fund chief investment ...