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Early release of super numbers revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... financial hardship a week. Last week it received 65,000. Rainmaker head of research Alex Dunnin said the numbers from APRA super funds are lower than some of the more dire initial predictions. "The figures from APRA and super funds on the early access ...

Super funds release $1.3bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
APRA has released the first Early Release Super (ERS) figures, showing $1.3 billion has been paid to members in the first week of the scheme. Under APRA's Early Release Initiative (ERI) data collection, superannuation trustees were asked to submit data ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... contraction should do well compared with other parts of the bond market where yields are already compressed," Innes argues. "Super funds also have the ability to hedge out the embedded duration risk using liquid futures contracts if they so desire, which ...

Super CIOs defend illiquid assets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... and more defended allocations to illiquid assets. Following weeks of scrutiny over potential liquidity issues facing super funds, the chief investments officers from AustralianSuper, First State Super, LGIAsuper, MLC, QSuper, Sunsuper, TelstraSuper and ...

More super funds will merge: QMV

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... restrictions - for example travel, airlines or hospitality. In these industries where so many have been made unemployed, super funds without diversified member bases will face several problems at once - they will lose SG contributions, have fewer new ...

Investment approaches in change phase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... allocation practices, finding that investment approaches were in a phase of change. Asset owners, like Australia's super funds, were evolving their practices into TPA and WTW senior consultant Tim Unger said the COVID-19 crisis is the perfect testing ...

Adviser fears over ASIC relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... advice. Here in lies the problem, with advisers concerned Australians may be driven to accessing compromised advice from super funds. Evalesco Financial Services director Marshall Brentnall says the initiative - taken as a measure designed to accelerate ...

Private asset consultant makes global hire

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... Paris, Geneva and Singapore has made an executive hire, set to boost investment opportunities for local investors and super funds. Flexstone Partners, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has appointed Kristof Van Overloop as a director in its ...

Queensland funds delay merger

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... Understanding to undertake exclusive due diligence to explore the merger. The agreement came around four months after the two super funds first flagged the possibility of a merger, with high-level discussions having taken place since November.

Australians hate complexity, not annuities: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... Business School senior research fellow Teagan Altschwager said. "When we talked to financial advisers and people from super funds and government about annuities, most of them said they thought customers don't like them or understand them, leading ...