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Challenges abound as super poises for COVID-19 recovery

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... on the industry side or the bank sponsored side," he said. "So I am hopeful that times like pandemics, times like share market crashes... [will] galvanise people together."

Industry fund drops Rio Tinto amid sacred site outcry

HARRISON WORLEY, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... engagement and policies in place are adequate to ensure we do not see a repeat of what has occurred at Juukan Gorge." Market Forces asset management campaigner Will van de Pol also condemned Rio Tinto's actions, and said the Juukan Gorge rock shelters ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... placement financing or bank lending now than we were in the first 10 years of our existence [because] of the change in the market's lending conditions and the change in the people that we manage money for [superannuation funds]," Wanigasekera said. "Our ...

Realigning remuneration expectations

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... increasing interaction with key clients and channels. It says sales compensation has been subsidised for years and 2020-2021 market conditions increase the need. As an example of a firm that needs to cut its incentive fund pool by 30%, the firm says ...

COVID-19 ushers in the future of work

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... Similarly, KPMG national sector leader for real estate & PE, Craig Mennie, said COVID-19 would irreversibly change the office market. "The dynamics of the office market are likely to change following COVID-19 shut downs and the effects on operating models ...

Super funds' dirty, poor performing stocks revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... which super funds have exposure to - that are polluters and haven't performed well this year. Activist group Market Forces released a new report today, titled Out of line out of time, which looks at the 22 ASX listed companies that it says are most ...

Bond fund spreads widen

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... for investors to 0.00%/1.00% from the previous 0.00%/0.00%. "The wider buy/sell spreads are a reflection of the current market liquidity. It is as bad or worse than during the bad periods of the GFC. Back then, bonds were trading on price [instead of ...

Academics protest UniSuper investments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... criticism over its continued investment in fossil fuels, this time directly from its members. Led by advocacy group Market Forces, university academics are today protesting against what they describe as UniSuper's "continued funding of fossil fuel expansion". ...

Bank of Mum and Dad forking out serious dosh

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... of low interest rates and people gearing their investments to the max, locking younger generations out of the property market with high prices. "The need for this is more out of necessity," he said. "We have seen low interest rates that have allowed ...

UniSuper on climate chopping block

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
Market Forces has put UniSuper on the chopping block in a divestment campaign aimed at pressuring the fund to ditch shares in fossil fuel companies. "UniSuper does not have fund-wide exclusions on fossil fuel investments of any kind. Instead, it claims ...