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UniSuper develops personalised retirement benchmark

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... adequacy index to gain a better understanding of how members are tracking towards their retirement goals. While superannuation funds have traditionally relied on the ASFA retirement standard to benchmark how members are tracking, UniSuper's retirement ...

Half of SMSFs set for super change slug

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
If the government's proposed changes to superannuation go through, keeping any excess funds over the $1.6 million cap in accumulation is likely to be more beneficial than withdrawing it from superannuation altogether. That's according to modelling by ...

Henderson insto flows turn positive

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... relationships and growing brand recognition remain the key drivers of future growth," Formica said. He added that Henderson's funds had provided consistently strong investment performance with 77% of funds outperforming relevant metrics over three years ...

Sustainable office trust attracts major new investor

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... Parker said. The CEFC has already made a cornerstone $125 million equity commitment to HISOT. Real estate fund manager, EG Funds Management, is the HISOT manager and is targeting a $400 million portfolio. HISOT is designed to refurbish up to a dozen ...

Retirement system needs work: Actuaries

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... came from actuaries Plan For Life and was sponsored by the Actuaries Institute. It compiled data supplied by 15 large super funds, accounting for more than $12 billion of assets in the drawdown phase in each year of the study. The second study was based ...

Voters opt to shut down AMP Capital China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... The AMP Capital China Growth Fund (AGF) will be wound up following the vote at today's EGM. Opening the EGM, AMP Capital Funds Management chair Adam Tindall said that "a lot has changed" since the fund's establishment in 2006. "Markets move on, regulations ...

Centuria's Macquarie strategy pays off

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... combined $101 million. The property fund manager purchased the properties in 2000 for $24 million. Centuria Unlisted Property Funds chief executive Jason Huljich said the group's strategy to invest in an area that would benefit from planned infrastructure ...

ASIC hands down multiple bans

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... sign a blank Authority to Provider Information (ATPI) document which was photocopied before the names of superannuation funds and other details were entered; altered an ATPI document after it had been signed by a client and created two versions of a ...

Calastone expands NZ presence

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... signed Custodian Public Trust and administrator MMC which represents a number of New Zealand's fund managers including: Devon Funds Management, Craigs Investment Partners, Mint Asset Management and Pathfinder Asset management. Calastone Australia and ...

Advisers need to leverage enormous ETF winds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... client investment portfolios, according to a leading industry executive. Speaking at the Financial Standard Exchange Traded Funds Best Practice Forum in Sydney yesterday, iShares head Jon Howie said there were several trends shaping how ETFs can play ...