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LGS certified carbon neutral

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
Local Government Super (LGS) announced it has been certified carbon neutral through Climate Active. LGS said the certification means it is one of only five Australian super funds to achieve carbon neutral status. The fund said it was awarded the certification ...

Generation gap opens up in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... overall and discretionary spend. But, consumers still expressed optimism with more than two-thirds either confident or neutral to the prospects of a recovery over the next six months. "Super funds do need to increase engagement with members - the survey ...

AMP closes ethical option to super members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... The funds' investments in growth assets were "significantly impacted by the pandemic" and returns from fixed income were neutral to negative. "The virus all but erased the returns generated in 2019," the update said. The exclusion of Woolworths from ...

Pension fund in divestment hoax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
Global climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion has come under fire after it posed as Sweden's largest pension fund and claimed it was divesting from all companies with operations in fossil fuels. On June 29 a website purporting to be that ...

Calls for index industry disruption

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... 2012, asset managers opting to self-index, and Morningstar launching the open indexes project. "The benefits of using a neutral third-party benchmark are clear: Independence matters when it comes to benchmarking," Lefkovitz said. "But what's important ...

The secret to neutralising sequencing risk

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
A Melbourne-based investment management firm says the key to avoiding sequencing risk is to build an "all weather" portfolio. Absolute-return fund Cor Capital said pre-retirees and retirees in particular need to pay attention to sequencing risk to avoid ...

Plato fund to shutter

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... strategy meanwhile. Plato has three other strategies: Australian shares income, global shares income and global market neutral.

The future is fast arriving: BlackRock

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... Treasury inflation-protected securities in strategic portfolios over developed market government bonds, however it is neutral on these over the next 12 months. However, the think-tank does like Chinese government bonds. "They offer higher expected returns ...

Pendal awards registry mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... recent registry change, Regal Funds Management notified investors in four funds (Atlantic Absolute Return, Tasman Market Neutral, Small Companies and Long Short Equity) that it was changing its registry provider from HSBC Fund Services to Boardroom Pty ...

Morningstar downgrades two Vanguard funds to neutral

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Shares Fund and the $2 billion Vanguard High Yield Australian Shares Fund were moved to a Morningstar analyst rating of neutral yesterday. The first fund, which has been running since 1998, tracks the S&P/ASX 300 Index and over five and 10 years to March ...