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Sunsuper hires investment manager from Mercer

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... Sunsuper chief economist Brian Parker, who noted an increased interest in alternatives, including hedge funds and unlisted assets. He said the diversification benefits of these assets was very attractive, adding: "These assets allow us to construct portfolios ...

Leadership shuffle at State Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... its new executive lineup, promoting several senior staff internally. Joining the fund in August 2015 as head of unlisted assets and alternatives, Richard Hedley becomes chief investment officer. With more than 20 years' experience in investment management ...

Infrastructure critical for super returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... foundation for strong member returns. The report confirms there is a growing interest from industry funds for unlisted assets, but ISA believes more can be done to identify a pipeline for appropriate, 'investment-ready' infrastructure projects. "In an ...

Under reporting of super fees harming investors: ASIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... transaction costs among the indirect costs that need to be disclosed for super products, in particular around unlisted assets. "We recognise this is a new requirement as part of the Stronger Super reforms from the Cooper review. Now there's some and ...

New $70bn MLC fund gives retail access to unlisted

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... "Having a big fund with positive cash flow delivers significant benefits. Obviously it gives us better access to unlisted assets, but even in the listed space, we have focused on reducing investment management fees for our members through large manda ...

MTAA Super bolsters investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... majority of our alternative assets. Property, infrastructure and some smaller private equity holdings make up our unlisted assets and particularly in the infrastructure space we had strong results," Turner said. "The Brexit impacted everybody and the ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... industry super funds comes down to its business model and its not-for-profit status, as well as a championing of unlisted assets in investment portfolios - particularly in physical assets such as infrastructure, and property. "Currently the industry ...

HESTA investment analyst collects ESG award

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... about 200 delegates at the ACSI annual conference in Melbourne yesterday, this year's award was presented to HESTA unlisted assets investment analyst Josephine Toral. As part of Toral's award she will be funded by CareSuper to attend the PRI in Person ...

Rice Warner consultant criticises MySuper fee disclosure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... option," he noted. "Rice Warner would expect higher fees from higher levels of: growth assets; active management; unlisted assets." He added that some funds provide life-cycle products which decrease exposure to growth assets as retirement approaches ...

Getting SMSFs into infra not worth the effort

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... SMSFs come into infrastructure so badly if they're not going to have the efficient scale to be able to go into unlisted assets?" Lyon asked during a panel session on infrastructure investment at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...