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Industry fund hires group executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
A $51 billion superannuation fund has appointed a new group executive as it reshuffles its team. Gemma Kyle has been appointed as the group executive of corporate services, which is one of the six newly-created teams inside Rest. The corporate services ...

Emerging markets must be long-term bet

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... where an element of market timing can creep in for institutional investors, Bilton said. The asset manager's tactical framework (separate to the LTCMA) is more cautious about these economic cycles in the near term, he added. Elsewhere the LTCMA report ...

Nikko Asset Management awards global equities mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... of global equities Peter Rutter said he and his team in London will apply an economic return and corporate lifecycle framework in creating a differentiated portfolio. Nikko AM senior portfolio manager Charl Marais said: "Engaging a differentiated global ...

APRA grilled over superannuation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... superannuation work in the final hours of the Royal Commission's public hearings. The prudential regulator reviewed AMP's trustee framework called a "business monitoring model" in 2017 and branded it as "robust". Then in August this year, it was revealed ...

APRA not clear how to police BEAR breaches

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... bring all ADIs under its purview on July 1, 2019. "There was some work done, we certainly developed what we think is a framework internally if we had to do something tomorrow [July 2]," Byres said. "But given we are undertaking a broader review of approach ...

Super pool ripe for adviser picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... expand the scope of their advice to combat pressures put upon them by regulatory reforms such as the Life Insurance Framework. "This is doubly important because it's only a matter of time before there are renewed calls to ban insurance commissions ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... the Fed's head honcho himself. In his speech before The Economic Club of New York on "The Federal Reserve's Framework for Monitoring Financial Stability," Powell declared: "Interest rates are still low by historical standards, and they remain ...

Super fund offloads harmful holdings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... tobacco, thermal coal and tar sands producers following consultation with members. The super fund's ESG decision-making framework seeks to reduce harm through active ownership of shares, with a decision to divest assets coming when it is clear the harm ...

BEAR should be expanded, ASIC included: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank, she added. "There are concerns that I have when I look at the current operational framework and responsibilities of ASIC. That is why I am of the firm belief that out current structure should move to one whereby ...

Aussie banks underestimated difficulties of advice: Hartzer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... banks made assumptions about the way that they went about that business; thought that it would sit neatly within the framework of banking, and clearly underestimated how much change was going to be required to make that work," Hartzer said. Counsel assisting ...