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Fund managers lag on ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... executive level by 2020. As its ESG negatives, Pendal did not disclose employee pay metrics, undertook a gender pay gap analysis but did not report it, and lack of disclosure around absolute levels of employee engagement which was reported only as a ...

HUB24 defends cash accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... maintains that all of its clients "are receiving a positive interest rate on their cash account". Citing a Macquarie analysis, the article highlighted how a Hub Super client would earn -0.06% on a cash investment after the rate cut. HUB24 would negotiate ...

Reforms see super fees in flux

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... members, and we have never charged members for insurance that they never asked for." The move comes despite Rainmaker analysis of APRA data revealing Future Super has one of the highest proportions of members under the age of 25, at 19%. While not specifically ...

Superannuation fund cuts fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... fees and costs. In fact, most big industry funds seem to be increasing their fees in response to the reforms." Rainmaker analysis of APRA data shows more than 60% of Future Super's members had an account balance lower than $25,000 in 2018, while ...

Pension giant awards $1bn in mandates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... diversification and apply analytical rigour in incorporating environmental, social and governance factors into fundamental analysis while maintaining a long-term investment horizon, she added. "This is the culmination of a thorough and rigorous selection ...

Pendal appoints machine learning expert

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... investment process. In his new role, Feldman will use machine learning algorithms to provide a layer of filtering and analysis over the investment manager's current suite of quantitative models. Feldman is a data scientist and joins Pendal from Advantage ...

Group life premiums topple benefits paid: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... group insurers charge have outweighed benefit payments by a whopping $21 billion over the last five years, Rainmaker analysis reveals. Using APRA data of industry and retail superannuation funds and their respective life insurers, Rainmaker research ...

Asset manager eyes Australian market

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... default rates in line with developed markets. "Our investment philosophy is based on fundamental, long term and bottom-up analysis of companies across the region. We have been able to take advantage of credit opportunities in Latin America over the past ...

Industry funds could solve energy crisis: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... purpose, and the capital, to work with the Government to develop a long-term solution as investment partners." Rainmaker analysis of APRA data shows around $100 billion of Australia's $2.7 trillion super system is invested in infrastructure. Not-for-profit ...

ASIC FAR, advice industry contract

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... Register in less than six months. As of this month, there are 27,108 active financial advisers in Australia, Rainmaker analysis of latest ASIC FAR data shows. At its height in January 2019, there were 28,863 advisers registered with ASIC. The figures ...