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APRA pushes for super fund consolidation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... funds to be more proactive in considering their options, saying that while COVID-19 will pass, its impact will be felt for far longer and funds will soon run out of excuses. Over the past seven years, the number of APRA-regulated funds has decreased ...

Sydney boutique shutters fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... February], as the coronavirus pandemic spread around the world, the S&P 500 suffered a horrendous -35% decline within a month, by far the steepest drop from an all-time high in the history of the US stock market," it said in a March update. "The VIX ...

Industry fund named top employer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... in the top quartile for all categories, ensuring it performed "over and above" the benchmark for being a Best Employer. So far, the fund is the only Australian organisation to be recognised this year. "We are humbled to have been recognised as a Kincentric ...

The future is fast arriving: BlackRock

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... of inflation, it said. "The overall impact is not yet clear, and the greater risk of higher inflation in the long-run is so far not reflected by market pricing," the Institute said. For this reason, the Institute prefers Treasury inflation-protected ...

FASEA unclear why advisers are quitting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... Financial Advisers (AFA), as well as the SMSF Association among others. There are just over 22,000 financial advisers on the ASIC FAR. About 8000 have so far sat the FASEA exam, Glenfield said. More than 3000 are registered for the June (2200) and August ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... 800/900 bps in sub-investment grade lending with a three to five-year tenor. Wanigasekera said it has been a quite year so far but the team started to rebuild its pipeline of future investments over the past week few weeks. In addition to mid-market ...

FASEA extension en route

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... acting, both industry and consumers would have been spared uncertainty if this common-sense decision could have been made far earlier." Senator Hume saw it differently though, and called on Jones to "stop playing games", and allow the FASEA extension ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... increases the scope for them to come down, notwithstanding some defaults that can come through," he said. Central banks have so far propped up investment grade credit, securitised assets and equity markets - however this has been driven largely by healthcare ...

US pension funds approach point of no return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
A new report ranking US public pension funds by their ability to pay future benefits suggests several will likely go insolvent as a result of COVID-19. The issues facing public pension funds in the US are widely known, and while it's not clear how ...

Rest pays out $1bn, calls for policy certainty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Having now paid out more than $1 billion to members, Rest is calling on the government to implement stable super policy settings, warning uncertainty constrains funds' ability to invest for the long-term. As of this morning, the $53 billion superannuation ...