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Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Australia's pension system is the second best in the world, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index. With a score of 79.9%, Australia outperformed the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden in the index, and was just behind Denmark ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
Sixteen Australian super funds, including first-timer HOSTPLUS, have made it into Towers Watson's list of the 300 largest global pension funds, which was released today. However, the weakening Australian dollar saw most of the Australian funds fall ...

S&P, ABN Amro appeals rejected in landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
Standard & Poor's, ABN AMRO (now RBS) and Local Government Financial Services (LGFS) will not be allowed to appeal a Federal Court ruling in favour of 12 local councils who suffered losses on investments they administered in the wake of the financial ...

Former BlackRock exec joins Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
Robeco has appointed Matthew Young as regional manager retail business development in Sydney. He will lead the development of the Netherlands-based asset manager's relationships with financial advisers and promote Robeco's investment strategies, including ...

ATO closing in on undisclosed offshore income

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is mining data to track down people with undisclosed offshore income and assets. The ATO is examining information from a range of sources including: data from overseas tax authorities on Australians with offshore ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Drugs, prostitution, arms dealing, people trafficking and contraband are usually the scourge of politicians. But new European Union (EU) rules mean these illicit industries could provide European politicians with the wiggle room they need to increase ...

AMP targets Asian investors with new UCITS funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
AMP Capital has made UCITS versions of its Global Listed Infrastructure Fund and Global Real Estate Securities Fund available to institutional investors in Asia. AMP launched its new Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS platform in April 2014 with US$156 million ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Australia is home to around 195,000 millionaire households, putting the country 14th in the global league tables, just ahead of India. The figure comes from the latest private wealth survey from management consultant, the Boston Consulting Group. Leading ...

Future Fund appoints head of ESG risk management

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
The Future Fund has appointed a new head of environmental, social and governance risk management. Joel Posters will relocate from The Netherlands to take up the role and is expected to start in August 2014. Until recently Posters was global head of ...

OMFG! Australia could lose an A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
We're in trouble now Virginia... you, I and Irene! That credit ratings agency - Standard & Poor's has waded in into the Federal Budget and put us, Australians all, on notice. Just read S&P's sovereign analyst Craig Michael's lips: "If it looked as though ...