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Hostplus, Intrust merger now official

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
The two funds have confirmed they have signed a successor fund transfer deed to chase a merger, as first revealed by Financial Standard on May 21. Hostplus and Intrust Super are targeting a completion of the merger by November 26. It is understood that ...

Citi names head of research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... Australia and New Zealand's research team is consistently ranked and highly regarded in diversified financials, insurance, small caps, technology and retail, and considered a thought-leader in the growing ESG sector."

GROW wins new super fund client

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
A Queensland superannuation fund has picked GROW Inc to replace Mercer as its administrator. The $1.4 billion Mercy Super will soon swap to GROW, after using Mercer for seven years. The transition was initially slated for a June 1 start but was delayed. ...

AFA defends industry against Labor attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... advisers always work in the best interests of their clients. The entire profession should not be judged based on what a very small minority have done in the past. Other professions are not judged because of what their worst do," he said. Since the Hayne ...

AFCA names human resources lead from ME Bank

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... Autoliv. Emma Curtis recently joined AFCA as lead ombudsman for insurance, while Suanne Russell joined as lead ombudsman for small business.

Catholic, Equip SFT to see Fairley exit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
With Catholic Super and Equipsuper set to officially merge at the end of the month, chair Andrew Fairley will hand over the reins - but he has "no interest in going home to mow the lawns". After more than 12 years at the helm of Equip, two of which ...

Perennial to launch fund, hires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
Perennial will launch its third private company investment fund for wholesale investors on July 14 and has hired an investment head from Investec. The Perennial Private to Public Opportunities Fund No. 3 has a minimum raising target of $50 million ...

HESTA managers improve on gender diversity

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... is further to go. The biggest improvers were unlisted managers, which went up from 17% to 24%. Listed managers showed a small improvement (16% to 17%) while investment committees went backwards marginally (13% to 12%). Sawtell-Rickson attributed the ...

Macquarie sweeps Investment Leadership Awards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... Advisors and Vanguard. It also won the following categories: Australian Equities - Index/Enhanced; Australian Equities - Small Cap; Fixed Income - Aggregate Bonds; Multi-Asset - Capital Stable; and Multi-Asset - Balanced. Now in its fourth year, the ...

CFAs not immune to pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... and chief investment officers (19%) and risk managers or analysts (also 19%). The survey found pay cuts were relatively small and temporary. Almost half of those affected got a pay cut of 10% or less, 53% expected their pay reduction to not go beyond ...