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80% of instos find sustainability difficult

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... with reforms like Your Future Your Super and other regulatory and industry pressures like super fund mergers, it's no surprise that more than half of respondents (51%) claim their primary driver to invest sustainably is due to pressure from members ...

Super fee squeeze continues

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... 60% decreased ICR (up from 40% last quarter). Dunnin said the 16 products increasing their fee during the period were a surprise. "In today's superannuation policy environment, trustees that increase their fees are brave indeed and should expect a lot ...

Chief economist update: Recovery flashing hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021
... inflation since this index began nearly 22 years ago." It's only in Japan where the PMI survey showed weaker inflation (surprise, surprise). The question now is whether or not these are only transient inflationary pressures - as proclaimed by most ...

The secret to looking good in the media: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
The Comms Department managing director Bec Brown explained that one of the worst mistakes financial services companies and super funds can make when it comes to media relations is having a fear of journalists. "You will still hear examples of company ...

Chief economist update: Confidently sustaining the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... from 15 in March and 10 in April. With business conditions like these, the jump in business confidence hardly comes as a surprise. Business confidence surged to a record high reading of 26 in April from the already above long term average readings of ...

Pengana appoints manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... Pengana International Fund - Ethical Opportunity. The two manager changes follow J ordan Cvetanovski and Steven Glass's surprise walkout from the business in March. The duo co-founded Pengana's international equities business in 2015 left the firm ...

Pengana appoints manager for global equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... has appointed a US-based fund manager to its global equities assets, after Jordan Cvetanovski and Steven Glass's surprise walkout in March. Connecticut-based Axiom Investors will manage the two funds: Pengana International Ethical Fund and Pengana ...

"Financial" in BFID is no big deal: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
A UNSW academic says subjecting superannuation funds to "best financial interest duty" instead of just "best interest duty" is not material, but BFID's flow-on effects will be concerning for trustees. University of New South Wales director for centre ...

TelstraSuper expands membership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... consistently shows us that the fund rates particularly highly when it comes to trust and quality service, so it's no surprise our members want to share us with their friends as well as family," "Expanding the membership to include friends enables this ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... per month and of agency mortgage-backed securities by at least $40 billion per month," the Fed said. This really is no surprise, especially if one's been paying heed to chair Jerome Powell's words uttered over the past weeks. Now put on paper ...