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AustralianSuper, Club Plus to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... great opportunity for our two funds to get to know each other better as we work through the due diligence period." Recent research from KPMG found that ongoing merger activity in Australia's super sector will likely result in just 12 funds managing ...

YFYS incentive to reduce fees: Hume

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... that has a very strong incentive for all funds to look at their fees and their costs," she said. According to Rainmaker research, in 2019/20 about half of MySuper products lowered their total fees. So far, this financial year about 40% of funds have ...

Fidelity hires sustainability director

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
... Wilson-Otto will further integrate sustainability considerations into Fidelity's investment process, working closely with the research unit on proprietary sustainability ratings. Wilson-Otto will also help expand the firm's sustainability-related regulatory ...

Research firm launches, hires Macquarie exec

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
A global fund manager research and benchmarking firm has launched in Australia, appointing a former Macquarie Group executive to lead the business. David Goodman is the new managing director of Inalytics for the Asia Pacific region. Goodman was most ...

Morningstar appoints director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
Morningstar Australasia has appointed a director of manager research ratings, after Aman Ramrakha moved to a different role. Annika Bradley is currently an independent financial services consultant with Lodrino, providing investment consulting and management ...

Housing market reaches new heights

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... April marked the first time the total value of Australian housing broke the $8 trillion dollar mark," CoreLogic head of research Eliza Owen said. "This puts Australian residential property at around four times the size of Australian GDP, and around $1 ...

Super fund advice not useful: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... how those in the world's most advanced defined contribution pension markets think about and prepare for retirement. The research was commissioned by Smart and conducted by YouGov via online interviews. The results are based on 2014 responses from Australia ...

State Street to track Bitcoin

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... corporate, financial and economic media markets and continues to trend higher," State Street head of investor behaviour research Rajeev Bhargava said. "Understandably, institutional investors are increasingly eager to learn how this rising attention ...

WTW launches working group

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... equity that allows asset owners to access and hold these investments in a cost-effective way. WTW head of private equity research Andrew Brown said the model in the private equity space hasn't changed in the last few decades. "Whilst that structure has ...

Research aims to solve cash conundrum

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
With record-low interest rates set to stay in place for some time, Allianz Retire+ has released new research looking at how best to solve the cash conundrum. Term deposit rates have fallen 96% since the Global Financial Crisis high of 8.25% and now ...