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Global firm secures $500m mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... class. "The key focus of the PARI strategy is on downside risk protection - with low correlation to equities, bonds and mainstream credit - and an overarching investment philosophy to preserve capital," he said. "It is a good fit with Rest's portfolio. ...

Lifecycle strategies now mainstream: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
Lifecycle strategies hold 40% of MySuper's total $756 billion of assets and are becoming mainstream for superannuation funds, according to new Rainmaker research. Lifecycle MySuper total assets grew 21% in the year to June end, to hit $299 billion. ...

Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... funds have held X as a constant for many years even though times are clearly changing," Rice Warner pointed out. As mainstream funds enjoy a 10-year run of positive returns, the firm said it wondered whether their success had made funds "complacent" ...

Mainstream shelves super admin business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
Mainstream Group Holdings is moving away from providing superannuation administration services to industry and corporate funds to focus instead on growing its public offer super fund. The ASX-listed firm announced today the super admin business will ...

Fidante loses $3.9bn of super fund assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... foundations of our business to drive the next phase of growth. These initiatives support our goal to make annuities a mainstream option in retirement by promoting bottom-up customer demand for our products, and better supporting advisers to write annuities." ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... investment processes to investment solutions". "Sustainable investing is no longer a niche area and has been brought to the mainstream, because of increased access to more granular data, more sophisticated analysis, shifting societal understanding of ...

Responsible investments outperform mainstream

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) shows responsible investment funds outperform most mainstream funds. Using KPMG data, the report shows responsible funds on average deliver higher returns across one, five and 10 year time ...

Magellan renews fund administrator

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
Magellan Asset Management has renewed its fund administration agreement for another five years. Mainstream has provided administration services to Magellan since 2007. Magellan has extended the contract for the next five years with an automatic renewal ...

Insurer to add value via tech

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... into the wellness technology space, given the popularity of wearable technology and wellness technology. "It is now mainstream to measure lifestyle data," Kruip said. Australia has one of the highest rates of tracking lifestyle behaviour, he added, referring ...

Smart beta now mainstream for instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Nearly six in 10 institutional asset owners are now using smart beta strategies in their portfolios, according to a new survey of 178 instos by FTSE Russell. Adoption has doubled what it was five years ago when roughly three in 10 used smart beta. Last ...