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APAC pension funds fastest growing: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
... under management of those world's top 300 pension funds grew by 11.5% to total US$21.7 trillion in 2020. Again, 16 funds made the list with one new name - TelstraSuper - appearing in the top 300 for the first time. The funds, by ranking, are AustralianSuper ...

MLC bolsters private equity team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
MLC Asset Management has made three appointments to its New York-based private equity team. Laura Hotaling joined as portfolio manager from New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS) where she was chief risk officer. She previously spent eight ...

IFM Investors sets 2030 emissions target

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
... investment decisions. "We are absolutely focussed on scope one and two for this time, that's what we committed to when we made our 2050 announcement," he said. "Scope three is critical for us as an investor, scope three is a huge influence over the transition ...

Gauging the Future Fund's MySuper potential

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
... He proposed the Future Fund become the default option for workers, while others looked at the fund's historic returns and made claims of it outperforming MySuper. "The Future Fund is a professional and high performing investment fund, but to say it's ...

AustralianSuper to shutter property option

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2021
... product. A spokesperson said the decision stems from "declining member demand" for the single-asset class option, which has made it increasingly unsustainable. "The number of members investing in the property option has declined dramatically in recent ...

ERS re-contributions won't be taxed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2021
... the COVID-19 ERS program without them counting towards their non-concessional contributions cap. These contributions can be made between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2030. The ATO clarified: "COVID-19 re-contribution amounts are not a new type of contribution. ...

Time to weed out dud funds: Delaney

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... performance test Delaney agreed with many in the industry that it is imperfect in its measurement of performance. However, he made it clear that funds with poor performance are not serving members and workers should be moved to funds that make the most ...

New investment model for affordable housing proposed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... negative tax liability RTOs provide for cash payment from the Australian Tax Office. In this case, the payments would be made by Treasury. While it would be a new program in Australia, Hamilton cautioned that "the boost is not innovative", she argued ...

Aware Super to offload farm assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... deliver for its owners and community for decades to come, Kilter Rural chief executive Cullen Gunn said. "The investment made in the portfolio to date, coupled with the quality management team, has allowed us to attract sophisticated, global customers ...

Should super funds consider crypto assets?

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... It's not that the assets do not come with a speculative nature and hype, but there are also some serious investments being made. "This new technology [that's only about] a decade old is the next generation digital infrastructure for a global ...