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CFSGAM aims for top quartile UN PRI performance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... they want to improve that. The first three principles refer to investment decisions, engagement and invested company disclosure. The final three principles recommend promoting the UN PRI within the investment community and working with the industry to ...

Cooper recommends info dashboard for members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... products and choice investment options. The Cooper report said consultation would hopefully lead to a standardised disclosure format that contains gross investment returns, costs and investment returns net of all costs for one, five and 10-year time ...

Cooper Review wants bigger role for APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... governance practices and structures is key to improving member outcomes." How this would affect ASIC's role as the consumer disclosure regulator is, at this point, unclear. The sub-recommendation to develop a Code of Trustee Governance could consequently ...

APRA dictates investment option labels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... This figure was based on ASIC guidelines that detailed which investment option should be used within each fund's fee disclosure template. By contrast, regulators and not-for-profit funds did not recognise this interpretation of the regulations because ...

Short form PDS gets green light

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
Super fund members can look forward to an eight-page product disclosure statement (PDS) rather than 80, as new laws announced this week kick in. The new regulations are an important step forward to a new era in disclosure for fund members, said super ...

Aussie quant funds stay ahead with proprietary data

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... "Historically a lot of fund managers have shared their IP with the market but that will change and there will be a lack of disclosure to protect that IP in the future. It's already happened in the hedge fund space," she said. Gorman said quantitative ...

APRA concedes on life ins data, slaps down friendlies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
After taking on and beating the super funds industry on public disclosure of fund level data, the regulator APRA has bowed to life insurance industry concerns and agreed to not disclose group wide performance metrics. In November 2009 APRA released ...

New performance reporting standards for retail funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... format can be interpreted as a shift back to a wholesale style reporting that reverses nearly a decade of consumer disclosure reforms that pushed super funds to disclosing returns after all fees. But IFSA have rejected this criticism saying that consumers ...

CalPERS reprimands board member

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... position as chair of the fund's health benefits committee along with her travel privileges after failing to file financial disclosure statements. According to a press release, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration ...

Macquarie Life releases flexible insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... Although Macquarie Life Active includes different parts of a traditional policy under the one product, the product disclosure statement (PDS) is 68 pages long, 10 of which are medical definitions. Macquarie Life is also providing two versions of the ...