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Mandates will flow to transparency: Survey

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
A survey of institutional investors has found that most expect to place greater emphasis on the importance of transparency when allocating money to fund managers. Global Palladium Fund surveyed 100 institutional investors and wealth managers in the ...

OpenMarkets hires, acquires, preps for IPO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
OpenMarkets has made a series of senior appointments as it prepares for an initial public offering. Naseema Sparks has been appointed chair, Andrew Rutherford and Paul Rayson are new non-executive directors and Bob Alexander is now executive director ...

EISS Super, TWUSUPER explore merger

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
The two industry superannuation funds have signed a memorandum of understanding to weigh a potential merger. If the merger proceeds, the combined fund will have about 130,000 members and $12 billion in funds under management. In a joint statement, the ...

AustralianSuper adds to investment committee

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
AustralianSuper last month added a former Goldman Sachs Australia managing director and partner to its investment committee. Pippa Downes was appointed to AustralianSuper's investment committee by ACTU Super Shareholdings Pty Ltd and the Ai Group last ...

Industry fund awards ESG mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
A $6 billion industry fund has implemented State Street Corporation's ESG Risk Analytics Solution to manage the carbon emissions of its assets. State Street's solution will provide EISS Super with customised ESG performance and risk management with ...

The barriers to limited advice: Licensees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
The increasing cost of delivering financial advice coupled with lack of guidance and strategy documents are the major barriers to limited advice, according to licensees. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) latest consultation ...

Elanor launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
Elanor Investors Group has established a new managed fund, the Burke Street Fund, which will acquire commercial office and healthcare properties. The properties in question are located at 2 Burke Street and 163 Ipswich Road, Wolloongabba in Queensland. ...

Elanor expands healthcare real estate fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
Elanor Investors Group announced it has acquired the Woolloongabba Community Health Centre for $37 million. Elanor said the acquisition was made through its Elanor Healthcare Real Estate Fund reflecting a 6% capitalisation rate. This marks the third ...

MySuper reforms could have downsides

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
The government's proposed reform to MySuper products, which will involve naming and shaming underperforming MySuper products, could actually end up hurting fund performance, according to some critics. Advance Human Solutions managing director Alexandra ...

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 ...