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New $70bn MLC fund gives retail access to unlisted

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
The scale advantages of the $70 billion merged MLC Super Fund will deliver better returns to members through access to the unlisted space, according to NAB Wealth executive general manager Paul Carter. Speaking on a panel on superannuation fund scale ...

Super funds on track to post positive return this year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... proportion of assets in property and infrastructure have outperformed, whilst funds with a higher proportion in listed assets have tended to underperform in the year.

Super investment pros make top 40

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... super funds. Making the list were Cbus investment manager public markets, Brett Chatfield; HESTA general manager listed assets, James Harman; and Emergency Services and State (ESS) Super head of investments, Matthew Kempton. When asked by the publication ...

QIC expands US operations with new appointment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... infrastructure privatisations over the next three to five years." "Institutional investors are thinking beyond traditional listed assets and expressing growing interest in global infrastructure. Vittorio will be pivotal to deepening our US and European ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
Super funds should not be shy of demanding full holdings disclosure from alternatives managers in order to meet reporting standards, HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. Sicilia said that if the managers refuse to provide the information ...

Ibbotson appoints regional CIO

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... Investors as head of Investment Solutions in the Multi-Asset Group, and before that, head of Investment Specialists, Listed Assets. He previously spent seven years with Russell Investment Group, as director of Consulting - Asia-Pacific and ultimately ...

Stronger Super look-through requirements may erode competitive edge

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
The federal government's comprehensive look-through requirements, due to come in on July 1 2014, may compromise confidentiality agreements and erode members' returns, according to Graeme Miller, Towers Watson's director of investment services Australia. ...

ASIC urged to extend 'wet signatures' exemption

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... small investors such as self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF), often forcing them to limit their investments to listed assets or take more expensive advice related aggregated channels. Eventually Sweeney wants to see greater choice and improved access ...

Government scraps proposed SMSF transfer changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... formal market would need to be independently valued before they could be transferred into an SMSF. The transfer of listed assets would also be required to be executed through existing markets for those securities. Dropping the changes effectively adopts ...

Pricing of unlisted assets call for new model: Northfield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
The risk profiles of unlisted assets can be analysed as if they were equities or Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) by using integrated models that look at risk across all asset classes, an analytics firm said. Northfield Asia Pacific, a US-based firm that ...