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Industry fund drops Rio Tinto amid sacred site outcry

HARRISON WORLEY, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Rio Tinto has been excluded from two portfolio options of a major industry superannuation fund following its destruction of 46,000 year old Indigenous heritage sites at Juukan Gorge last month. First State Super has dropped Rio Tinto from the diversified ...

Industry funds continue risk-adjusted domination

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Industry superannuation funds have continued to dominate Rainmaker's league tables for risk-adjusted MySuper returns, despite an ethical retail fund muscling its way into the top 10. Industry super funds took all but one of the top 10 positions ...

RealIndex taps former RF Capital executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
First Sentier's systematic equities manager Realindex added a former RF Capital head of research to its investment team, as it continues to grow. Realindex has appointed Ron Guido as a senior qualitative portfolio manager. Guido's role is newly created ...

Hold super accountable for miners' actions: Future Super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
Ethical superannuation fund Future Super has urged Australians to hold super funds accountable for investing in companies which have destroyed sites of cultural significance to Indigenous Australians. Future Super co-founder and managing director Kirstin ...

VicSuper disputes fee hike claim

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
The $23 billion industry superannuation fund has responded to a claim its members will face increased financial advice fees upon its mega-fund merger with First State Super. Following reports in the Australian Financial Review that internal documents ...

Is a market turning point around the corner?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
Antipodes Partners investment boss Jacob Mitchell believes less popular stocks might soon outperform the market's current winners. Current market cap concentration, and market breadth in the S&P500 might signal a turning point for less popular, lower ...

Research firm bolsters executive leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
A former Australian Unity Investments head of distribution has been appointed to the executive leadership of a funds management research house. Active fund information source Australian Fund Monitors has appointed Damen Purcell as chief operating officer ...

Labor calls for end to war on super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
The Labor Party is calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to finally put an end to the war on superannuation waged by government backbenchers, in an effort to ensure Australia rebounds from COVID-19 "faster and better". Financial Standard has obtained ...

Super consolidation to slash 60% of funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Within the next decade, the number of superannuation funds serving Australians will drop by 60%, according to a new KPMG report. New KPMG research shows the 217 APRA-regulated superannuation funds will shrink to 138 within the next five years, with ...

Hundreds of billions ripped from super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
For a moment, Australia's superannuation system was beyond the magic $3 trillion mark. But, COVID-19 momentarily set the sector back, according to new data. Latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows the super sector was smashed to the tune of ...