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Statewide overhauls risk management approach

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... important for everyone to be involved in managing risk at all levels. "Risk training has become a part of employee development plans and can help everyone understand their role within risk," Muir said. "That really helps people become consciously aware ...

Spaceship Super gets boost from Voyager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... the aim of introducing existing clients in either offering to the other. Voyager currently only offers equities funds and plans to stick to it, given the longer-time horizon of its younger-aged investors. Moore says the firm is not contemplating offering ...

Industry funds team up in longevity search

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... working group, which was put together late last year, is expected to present its first findings later this month. It also plans to engage with the Treasury. "Difference to what we are doing is that it is designed by the fund and is something that [funds] ...

Chief economist update: Not easy easing restrictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... Florida, Arizona, California, and Texas. As a result, more than 70% of the country have deferred or reversed further reopening plans, according to Goldman Sachs. This should stall the fledgling recovery at best... and it may already be underway. "Bloomberg ...

Global public debt to reach 101.5% of GDP: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... greater risk of derailing the recovery, with larger future fiscal costs," it said. "Policymakers should prepare contingent plans that can be flexibly scaled to manage the health, economic and fiscal risks from recurrent outbreaks." The fund also said ...

Global infrastructure proves profitable: LGIAsuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... said. Within the ISQ fund, LGIAsuper has an $11.9 million share in Grupo T-Solar, a Spanish solar power producer. T-Solar plans to produce and distribute 127 megawatts of additional power across Spain. Farrar said it was important for LGIAsuper to be ...

Chief economist update: UK plans for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
The United Kingdom has followed the script dictated by the coronavirus pandemic in much of the world. On March 23, the government imposed strict lockdown measures, giving "bobbies" power to fine people leaving their homes for "non-essential" reasons. ...

Chief economist update: A tale of two quarters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... 11.1% in June. So far so good. But the rising cases of infection have prompted some states to defer or rollback re-opening plans - particularly those in western and southern USA. The continued rise and rise in infections in America could force other ...

Super for women under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... 0.30% per annum investment fee. Verve invests through Future Super Investment Services, both Verve and Future Super are sub-plans of Diversa. They share an ethical investing ethos - screening out fossil fuels, tobacco, weapons and more. Hobbs said Verve's ...

Rice Warner questions super return targets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... a proper assessment of risk, perhaps through some stochastic modelling, the targets can be misleading both for members' plans and for peer comparisons," the firm said. "The recent market turbulence provides a good reason for funds to review whether their ...