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Instos dial up alternatives allocations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... Diversification was the main reason alternative assets look attractive to the majority of institutional investors within pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. The prospect of higher long-term returns ...

Sustainable ETF demand skyrockets

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... market. Asset levels are supported by institutional investors with sustainable mandates, particularly Scandinavian public pension, sovereign wealth, and insurance funds," Morningstar wrote. This is thanks to countries like France making climate-related ...

Super remains grossly inequitable: Per Capita

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... load of domestic labour and care carried by women." According to the findings, 24.2% more women than men receive the Age Pension, with 31.5% more women than men on the full rate and 13% more on a part pension. More than a half a million single women ...

ERS to lead to rising pension costs, higher taxes

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... slammed the government's early release of superannuation scheme, arguing it will significantly increase the long-term Age Pension costs borne by taxpayers. Total retirement incomes will be substantially lower, it said, while a spike in Age Pension expenditure ...

Industry funds triumph July performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... first over five years at 8% and second over seven and 10 years with 9.8%. In the retirement sector, UniSuper balanced pension ranked first over three, five and seven years returning 8.2%, 7.5% and 9.3% respectively. AustralianSuper's balanced choice ...

NPS buffers COVID-19 shocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) has delivered positive results for its members despite the havoc wreaked by the global pandemic in the investing world. In the six months to June NPS posted 0.5%, buoyed by investments in global fixed ...

Industry fund reduces fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... allocation changes, lower fees paid to investment managers, and reduced indirect costs for some investment options. Non-pension members in the following options will see investment fees and the indirect cost ratio decrease: My Ethical Super (from 1% ...

Link suffers in COVID environment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... flow on impact of lower revenue and the high level of operating leverage in this division. Link Group also entered the UK pension market in FY20 through its strategic partnership with Smart Pension. As at 30 June 2020, Link said it administers around ...

Pandemic heightened need for SG increase: ASFA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... system. "ASFA considers that given substantial changes to the taxation of superannuation and the provision of the Age Pension in recent years there should now be a period of consolidation to allow the various changes to be bedded down," it said. "Stability ...

Super contributions rise despite ERS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... caused by the ERS scheme that commenced on 20 April 2020. Lump sum payments totalled $26.8 billion in the quarter while pension payments totalled $10.7 billion. Quarterly net contribution flows to the industry were negative (down $2.3 million) for the ...