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APRA urged to probe industry funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... advice clients mentioned that 70% of Hostplus's infrastructure investments were managed by an industry-super-owned fund manager IFM Investors. "Such a leak highlights a number of issues: a conflict of interest by the fund, a failure to sufficiently spread ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... get the speed and scalability that comes by leveraging outsourced trading." Outsourced trading can be utilized by a fund manager to fully outsource their trading functions, or alternatively, to supplement in-house trading capabilities with specialist ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
The industry-super-owned fund manager's credit team has about $500 million to deploy in the year ahead, eyeing opportunities in lending to mid-sized companies that will be forced to refinance after the COVID-19 crisis. IFM's credit team manages about ...

Fund managers adapt to market pain

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Aussie equities fund managers steadily improved in performance relative to benchmark from January to March, according to an updated SPIVA Australia Scorecard from S&P. In January, only 21.6% of Australian equities (general category) funds beat the benchmarks ...

Industry funds pulled back to the pack

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
New research predicts industry funds are no longer set to dominate the superannuation industry, as COVID-19 changes the race to the top. KPMG's latest Super Insights report shows industry super funds are no longer on track to takeover SMSFs as the biggest ...

Performance analyst jobs hold steady in COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
Performance analysts and more broadly, investment data professionals have been in strong demand throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Kaizen Recruitment. The role -- with responsibilities including calculating, attributing and benchmarking ...

HESTA awards investment data mandate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
The $56 billion super fund has partnered with a New York-based software company to support its strategic investment decisions and funds management. HESTA has selected GoldenSource Nexus to overhaul its investment data management, set to help the super ...

IFM cuts carbon footprint from Aussie infra assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... and toll roads, cut their carbon footprint by 7.9% in the year ending June 2019. The industry-superannuation-owned fund manager started reporting its infrastructure portfolio's carbon footprint in 2017 and from there, set targets of cutting emissions ...

Investment manager launches income fund

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... active, dynamic strategy to invest in a highly diversified portfolio of credit issuers. It's the first of what the fund manager says will be several products set to launch in the Australian market over the next two years. The fund was developed to meet ...

Pendal's product pipeline for 2020

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... million in total seed capital investments across 14 funds, down 16% from $238.9 million the year before. The ASX-listed fund manager has been seeding 14-16 funds a year for the last five years but the amount it invests in them has gone up from $63.5 ...