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APRA proposes new remuneration standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... incentivise behaviour that supports the long-term interests of their entities. "We recognise that some aspects of this proposal are far-reaching and will require major changes to industry practices. APRA will listen closely to feedback from impacted ...

QSuper names investments chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
QSuper will welcome its new chief investment officer in September as it farewells Brad Holzberger. Charles Woodhouse has been promoted to investments chief after serving as the QSuper's head of funds management since 2009. During that period, he ...

Irish pension funds reduce equity exposure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... diversify and attempt to deliver better returns. Mercer head of investment consulting Olivier Santamaria said: "While 2019 has so far been marked by cautious optimism, investors need to remain vigilant in an ever-evolving macro-economic and political ...

Impact investing under threat

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
Advocates of impact investing are in fear for the future of the movement, issuing warnings about the dangers of impact-washing. A recent analysis of green themed funds around the globe found 85% make unsubstantiated and misleading impact-related claims ...

Grattan Institute chief retires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... chief executive is not what is achieved while you are there, but how you set up the organisation to develop afterwards. "So far I have been a lawyer, a policy adviser, an academic, a management consultant, a banker, a stockbroker, and the founding chief ...

JP Morgan-linked ship in US $1bn drug bust

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... and it is run through Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping Company, CNN said. JP Morgan hasn't issued a statement so far. On June 17, federal, state and local law enforcement agents boarded the ship when it was parked at a terminal in Philadelphia ...

Super fund to reduce admin costs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
A $12 billion super fund has moved to significantly reduce the cost of its administration in future years. LGIA super has selected global business process specialist Tech Mahindra to take over and operate its back-office administrative platform. The ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... the first half of the year. However, investors showed a preference for passive and smart beta products over active ETFs so far in this half. Passive ETFs attracted 82% of the net inflows, an increase from their 78% share of the net inflows for last year. ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
The Bloomberg US Dollar Spot index was trading at 96.7680 on the day Trump tweeted the below: "China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being ...

Grattan SG claims slammed by industry bodies

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia have called out the research house, with ASFA chief executive Martin Fahy going as far as to label the institute "tedious." Fahy said the institute's latest "missive" on retirement funding continued its ...