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New role for Cbus' Robbie Campo

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... is an advocate for the benefits of integrated reporting, a form of reporting that is only currently used by a few super funds in Australia. Cbus was the first super fund in Australia to follow the International Integrated Reporting Council's integrated ...

Industry super funds launch fresh campaign

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... five million Australians are in an industry fund. The campaign will generate greater community awareness of industry super funds, ISA said, with independent research showing 80% of Australians already recognise the symbol. The research also shows that ...

QIC, Sunsuper acquire NZ healthcare asset

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... large surgeon cohort with over 300 surgeons performing more than 57,000 procedures across the portfolio in FY21. The super funds together are looking to put money toward what they describe as a mega-trend for healthcare demand stemming from an aging ...

Super funds lambasted over nuclear holdings

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... landmines and cluster munitions as undeniably 'controversial weapons'), the report suggests that these Australian super funds have had ample time to divest from nuclear weapons investments, and revise their definitions of controversial weapons ...

Half of all super products cut fees: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... despite other research showing institutional investment fees in Australia to be dropping fast to record lows, these super funds are increasing theirs," the research states. "Indeed, for the funds that raised fees, 90% of these involved investment fees ...

The dark side of super switching: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... January 2019 to 31 March 2021. It found there was a near tripling of members switching investment options within their super funds during the COVID-19 induced market downturn at the beginning of 2020. This tripling meant 18% of the average member base ...

Super funds attracting more women to investment work

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
Australian super funds growing their in-house asset management teams is having a positive impact on gender equality in investment management, with more women wanting to work with profit-to-member funds than other funds management firms. According to ...

AvSuper hunts merger partner, launches EOI process

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
AvSuper today advised it has invited a select number of super funds to discuss a potential merger, having determined it would be in the best interests of members to do so. The launch of an Expression of Interest process comes after AvSuper's MySuper ...

Top investment products, super fund revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... investment options, Rainmaker executive director Alex Dunnin said. "It must be said that 2020-21 was a remarkable year for super funds as they experienced their best returns in 34 years. It led to quite a changing of the guard for Australia's best ...

Retirement Income Covenant hits parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2021
... make the most of their retirement income," he said. However, O'Halloran criticised the exclusion of self-managed super funds and their one million members under the legislation runs counter to the the Retirement Income Review's finding that there ...