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Aware Super joins forces with Dutch pension fund

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
Recently rebranded Aware Super has entered into a partnership with the largest pension provider in the Netherlands, APG, to expand a serviced apartment chain across major European capital cities. The asset owners announced the agreement with City ID ...

Fees should reflect investor skill: AB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... which have only been re-affirmed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The focus needs to be on long-term investing goals. For pension plans that mean generating cash flows in excess of the inflation rate and not investing against short term downturns in the ...

Super fund gets ahead of CIPR obscurity

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... later years, which on average is a 52-year-old female school teacher with a nest egg of up to $300,000. The account-based pension was recognised as a product of innovation by the Australian Business Awards. Drew told the recent AIST's superannuation ...

MS sufferer fights CommInsure definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... so many other organisations have recognised her MS but one insurer has not. "I have NDIS help, I'm on a disability pension but CommInsure are arguing whether I have MS? They want to see lesions in the spine and the brain? It doesn't make sense. ...

BlackRock wins $7.1bn mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
BlackRock has secured a $7.1 billion (£4bn) mandate from a UK pension scheme. The investment manager will provide asset allocation and manager-selection decisions across all asset classes for the Civil Aviation Authority Pension Scheme (CAAPS), a defined ...

Aussie super funds climb ranks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
Total assets held by Australia's super funds rose almost 20% in 2019, with 16 now sitting within the top 300 pension funds worldwide, new analysis shows. In stark contrast to this year, Aussie super funds enjoyed an extremely positive 2019, according ...

Adviser demands answers from Media Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... edge," Johns said. "She is very vulnerable and Centrelink acknowledged that and approved her for the disability support pension. To get that pension is a much harder test than a TPD claim." He added that the fund has already essentially admitted that ...

Funds services firm expands offerings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... into Australian real assets by both local and international fund managers, institutional investors and superannuation and pension funds in the years ahead," Cannane said. Intertrust's existing offerings in Australia include accounting and reporting ...

Industry funds pledge $33bn for economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... between 2020 and 2023. ISA added that investments save the Federal budget $2.7 billion through higher tax receipts, lower pension payments and lower interest costs alone. The report expands on an earlier 2016 report and examines new areas that recognise ...

UK pensions to factor in climate change risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
UK pension funds may soon be required by law to report on the risks climate change could have on their members' investments, becoming the first major economy to do so. Speaking last week, the UK's work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey proposed ...