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Underinsurance gap worsens: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... volumes sales have been reducing, due to a similar reduction in active insurance advisers. The aggregate sum insured held via this distribution channel has been decreasing since the end of 2018. "Although we will see product innovation as insurers respond ...

Treasury expected to release retirement review

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... has previously said it expects comment on the adequacy of the current rate of superannuation contributions, home ownership via superannuation, age pension eligibility criteria, allocation to longevity products, spending patterns and the vehicles for ...

NSW budget boosts TCorp loans

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... will look for opportunities to further increase issuance into these tenors." TCorp aims to establish a 2032 benchmark bond via syndication by the end of June 2021. In October, TCorp issued its third green bond. The $1.3 billion November 2030 green bond ...

Clime to wind up Australian value fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
The 14-year-old fund is headed for the door as asset growth falters. The Clime Australian Value Fund was set up in 2006 (wholesale units followed in 2011) and had $79 million in total assets at June end. It targeted capital growth and a growing level ...

Industry fund slashes admin fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... year, LGIAsuper held 93 seminars and webinars with 2028 attendees (up 138% year on year). It met over 7000 members and guests via its workplace visits program.

Chief economist update: Japan's third wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... below pre-COVID-19 levels. Japan's domestic challenges are being compounded by the second wave in the US and in Europe via their impact on the Japanese yen exchange rate. The resurgence of infections have already prompted both continents to re-impose ...

RC recommendations closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... the hawking of all financial products - insurance products, superannuation, shares and other managed investment schemes - via an unsolicited telephone call or any form of "real-time interaction in the nature of a discussion or conversation". Case studies ...

Perpetual gets green light for acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... Barrow Hanley's investment and management personnel. Perpetual will pay around $465 million for the acquisition, funded via a $265 million equity raise (39.5% of the total cost), a new $284 million debt facility (nearly 50%) and cash (10.6%). Perpetual ...

AustralianSuper backs net-zero emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... to net-zero outcomes by 2050. Since 2013, AustralianSuper has been measuring the carbon intensity of its equity portfolios via external consultant S&P/Trucost, and has made significant progress in reducing its carbon intensity by 44%, director of ESG ...

Pengana launches new Israel equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... of which are cross-listed abroad. More than 27 multinational companies have established research and development facilities via Israel, including Google, Alibaba and Siemens, according to Pengana. Minimum investment size is $250,000. The fees are 1.5% ...