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Super funds adopting insurers' investment strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... the added benefit of liquidity using a 55% and 45% split between real and listed assets. Hurt added in the last 20 years, not-for-profit industry funds in Melbourne have been huge allocators to REITs and forecasts these will only continue to incorporate ...

Top super chief executive named ACSI president

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... and executive awareness of ESG issues. "Building retirement savings pools for members requires strong returns over decades, not just years, putting ESG issues - including strong corporate governance, climate change, other environmental issues, health ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... showed that employment increased by less than the expected 37,400 heads in April - expectations were for a 50,000 addition. Not only that, all of the gains in April employment was due to the 49,000 increase in part time jobs; full-time employment declined ...

BGL releases CGT capability for SMSFs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... allow Simple Fund 360 users to analyse the assets of the fund, select which assets to reset the cost base, select whether or not the capital gains are to be deferred and generate the necessary CGT Transactions all in one process. "We have tried to make ...

Default retirement products not good enough: Milliman

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... options won't be good enough with CIPRs. "While a 'safe harbour' is proposed to protect trustees from claims that a CIPR was not in the best interest of an individual member, the reputational damage could be more extreme," Gebler said in a recent paper. ...

Big banks pay $60m in advice refunds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... Westpac have to-date repaid $60 million out of an estimated $204 million for charging clients for financial advice that was not provided. This news follows the October 2016 release of ASIC's report into the advice businesses of Australia's largest financial ...

Global equities boutique wins super fund mandate

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... long-term sustainable competitive advantage. Intermede aims to buy these companies when they believe their stock prices do not fully reflect long-term potential. TWUSUPER chief investment officer Andrew Killen said the fund is "very pleased" to be adding ...

Macquarie to pay $2m following ASIC probe

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... to third parties, and spot FX traders traded in such a way that could have caused the trigger price to trade when it might not have otherwise. The regulator said this was evidence that Macquarie had put insufficient supervision and controls in place ...

Perennial micro-cap fund gets Lonsec tick

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... their investments being aligned, the managers will close the Trust to new investors when funds exceed $150 million. It is not in anyone's interest to have funds grow too large in the microcap sector, and the ability to remain nimble and move in and out ...

Rising yields benefit active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... this environment, active bond managers have the opportunity to enhance portfolio returns and protect their capital in ways not typically available to passive managers. The US Federal Reserve lifted interest rates twice in just three months to 1%, and ...