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QSuper head moves to AMP

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... "AMP has resources and expertise across all areas of wealth management, including investments, super, SMSFs, banking, pensions and platforms. I'm excited to bring this unique breadth of capability together into market leading retirement offers for customers ...

UK pension funds commit to manager diversity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
... signatories, representing $2 trillion in assets under management. This includes Cornwall Pension Fund, The Church of England Pensions Board, Nest, Lothian Pension Fund and West Midlands Pension Fund. The creation of the working group and the charter ...

IOOF advice outflows soar

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
... million net inflows to $48.4 billion and investment management saw net inflows of $90 million to $23.5 billion. Elsewhere, pensions and investments saw $895 million in net outflows which IOOF said is broadly consistent with the outflow profile in previous ...

Advisers overlook home equity release strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... reverse mortgage as a strategy for consideration. The most dominant pieces of advice provided were on superannuation and pensions. For those aged 45 and over, 73% of all SOAs reviewed contained advice on super, drawdowns and pensions. Some 14% for those ...

Retirement Income Covenant paper released

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
... that all superannuation funds must offer a new, hybrid retirement product that goes beyond the standard account-based pensions. These products were required to provide retiring members access to capital while managing the risk that they might outlive ...

DWS Group hires client coverage head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... head of institutional business in North Asia. She spent six years at Citi in Beijing as managing director and head of pensions for Asia Pacific. Prior to this, Wang spent over 15 years at Mercer, starting as a principal consultant and consulting actuary ...

UK pension funds pushed to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
The UK pension sector is experiencing similar pressure to that being felt by Australia's super funds, with the pensions regulator asking defined contribution (DC) funds with less than £5 billion in assets being urged to merge. In September last ...

Maine forces pension funds to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... according to Richard Brooks, climate finance director at Stand.earth, which is coordinating the national Climate Safe Pensions Network. In May, a bill was introduced by New York state legislators to force the New York State Teachers' Retirement System ...

BlackRock wins monumental mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... BlackRock will be the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) for $39.9 billion (£21.5 billion) of British Airways Pensions' assets. The mandate is for the investment management of Airways Pension Scheme (APS) and New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS) ...

Local Government Super rebrands, reduces fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... However, there will be changes to some fees. From July 1, administration fees on accumulation accounts, account-based pensions and retirement accounts will reduce, while the switching fee is being removed. Accumulation members will see a reduction of ...