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Challenger to buy industry-fund-owned bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
Challenger will spend $35 million to buy Catholic Super's banking business, in a move that Bell Porter says could have more upside than suggested by the company this morning. Challenger and MyLife MyFinance have entered into an agreement with an expected ...

SuperConcepts appoints interim chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
AMP's SuperConcepts has appointed its chief information officer as the interim chief executive after incumbent Lara Bourguignon resigned earlier this month. Grant Christensen moved into the role on December 18. He joined SuperConcepts in 2006 and has ...

Mantis to take over Copper Rock fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... Management. Clearway has four clients: DSM, Osmosis Investment Management (equities and recently appointed by Commonwealth Super ), Global Evolution (emerging and frontier markets debt) and Shenkman (credit manager).

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... workers in healthcare. But, the industry still played its part in supporting those who were doing it tough. For example, super funds had to implement the government's plan to allow those suffering as a result of the pandemic to access their super ...

Vanguard fund hits US$1trn

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
A Vanguard equities fund ended November with $1.3 trillion in total assets, in an unprecedented feat in funds management. The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has been around since 1992 and follows a passive style of investing, with turnover rate ...

JANA appoints NFP head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... superannuation clients, who face merger pressures and are developing sophisticated internal investment teams. It said non-super clients have been the fastest growing part in the business, with clients tripling in 2020. JANA's NFP team includes Wendy ...

How far are we from a trillion-dollar super fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... population is a member with the fund. AustralianSuper has stayed away from mergers in recent years, dissimilar to Aware Super (formerly First State Super), which currently has about $135 billion in assets after adding scale via mergers with VicSuper ...

UniSuper wins in court judgement on board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
The Victorian Supreme Court on Tuesday decided in favour of the $83 billion industry fund after a union asked the court to decide on its rights in nominating a director for the UniSuper board. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) on September ...

University debt weighs on personal investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
A quarter of the participants in a new survey said their HECS-HELP debt was standing in their way to start investing outside of superannuation. Futurity Investment Group surveyed 1000 Australians who went to university and found university debt impacted ...

WA Super trio launches boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... Chris West and two others have launched a new investment consultancy, following the completion of its merger with Aware Super. Context Capital will provide investment advice to advice businesses, wealth firms and family offices, and already has $1 billion ...