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APRA reviews priorities in super

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
Unlisted asset valuations, early release of superannuation and heatmaps are some of the key areas APRA will prioritise over the next 12-18 months. COVID-19 has forced APRA to reassess the urgency of a number of key initiatives affecting superannuation ...

Australian Ethical benefits from seismic cultural shift

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... said. "So, if you can invest this way and make this kind of impact, then why wouldn't you?" Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that Australian Ethical had been awarded a significant mandate by Catholic Super in July 2020. This ...

Boutique launches multi-asset fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... also worked at Merrill Lynch and was JBWere's head of debt capital markets. The new fund draws on strategy of the NZ version, which Milford says is the largest multi-asset fund in New Zealand and has been running since April, 2010. Its current benchmark ...

SG increase will be deferred: Knox

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... need to seriously consider pre-testing eligibility." Editor's note: This article was updated at 4.25pm. An earlier version of this article incorrectly implied that Cbus was in favour of delaying an increase to the superannuation guarantee.

Magellan to restructure retail global equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
Magellan is seeking unitholder approval to create a mega fund of $15 billion that would combine the investment pools of the unlisted, ETF and LIT versions of the Magellan Global Fund. Magellan will create a single trust and issue two unit classes - ...

Watchdog warns of celebrity-endorsed bitcoin scams

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... watchdog said. "When an investor clicks on the article or ad, they are often sent to a 'mirror site' - a fake version of a legitimate news site such as ABC News." The fake trading website will also typically reference margin FX trading or contracts ...

Chief economist update: Haste makes Budget waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
Would Australia be experiencing a second wave - and therefore, a reimposition of lockdown restrictions - had it not rushed to reopen and followed its original prescription for a six-month lockdown? Not only that, in the haste to reopen, the Victorian ...

CFS drops fees on external fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
A UK systematic manager has dropped the fees on a managed futures fund for Australian investors distributed by Colonial First State. The Aspect Diversified Futures Fund (class A), which had $614 million in total assets at June end, was reduced from ...

Disgraced lobbyist charged

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... evasion, has now been charged with conducting a fraudulent, unregistered offering of what he claimed was a new and improved version of bitcoin. Abramoff only served 43 months in jail for his prior sentence, during which he wrote an autobiographical book ...

Investment scams pry $126m from Aussie hands

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
Australians lost $126 million to investment scams in 2019, with many fraudsters using 'celebrity' endorsements to rort investors. According to the latest figures coming out of the ACCC's Targeting Scams report, Australians were defrauded ...