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Super fund awards $50m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
EG Funds Management has won a mandate from a $9 billion superannuation fund. The real estate investment manager, with $2.1 billion under management, was awarded a $50 million mandate from Tasplan, which will invest the funds in EG's High Income Sustainable ...

Superannuation Consumer Advocate proposal needs work

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... groups. CHOICE and the Superannuation Consumers' Centre (SCC) welcomed Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's $100,000 pledge on Budget night to establish the Superannuation Consumer Advocate (SCA), but highlighted shortcomings. CHOICE chief executive ...

Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
Uh-OMG-oh! Long-time and loyal readers would have probably noticed my change in tune over the past few weeks - from a mini-me Dr. Doom to a prophet of boom - based on the rationale that the world's major central banks have toned down and/or reversed ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
The "Year of the Pig" is turning out to be what it signifies - prosperity, good fortune and success. This is no truer than from the land the 12 animal signs of the lunar calendar zodiac originated - China. This is against consensus expectations that ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... and Mexico-during this period." No one, including the IMF, countenanced that Trump would follow through on his campaign pledge to "Make America Great Again" by starting a trade war with the world in late March 2018. The impact of which is clearly shown ...

Labor pledges tougher unpaid super penalties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
Labor is promising to crack down on "dodgy" employers that underpay or fail to pay superannuation with tougher penalties if it comes to power. Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen proposed new measures over the weekend in a bid to curb the "enormous issue" ...

Tobacco-free portfolios divide investors: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... following month, several asset owners voiced support for the recently launched United Nations' Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge. BT Financial Group said it is extending its ESG exclusion framework to investment mandates for internally managed investments ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... Regulatory Commission, said his agency encouraged local government-backed funds to help ease pressures created by share-pledge risks. Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, said in an interview posted on the regulator's ...

BTFG expands tobacco divestment

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... fund - which serves health and community services employees - is among 85 founding signatories to the Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge, representing more than $6 trillion in assets under management. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said the fund was proud ...

Colonial First State to cut tobacco by 2020

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... vouched to offload all its tobacco-related investments by 2020, as it signs on to the UN-endorsed Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge. CFS currently has less than 1% of total assets in tobacco-related investments but declined to disclose the actual dollar value. ...