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Future Fund posts modest growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... still remains significantly below the levels of 12 months ago." Costello said the board remains focused on long-term performance which has returned nearly 9% per annum over 10 years. "The global economy has begun to rebound and is showing signs of consolidating. ...

ClearView seeks to raise at least $40m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... economic shutdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decline in profitability was driven by poor underlying claims performance in its life insurance segment, reflecting a loss of around $12.5 million. ClearView said the result should be viewed ...

Invesco winds down fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... underlying strategy had $27.5 billion in total assets at September end. The closure also comes at a time lackluster performance. It returned -21.15% in the year to September end, for the A class set up in March 2005. Since inception, the class returned ...

Future Fund slashes fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... costs for the Future Fund Management Agency staff. Look-through costs on the other hand, are investment management and performance fee costs incurred indirectly through "investment vehicles or where the fund is part of a comingled group of funds". Over ...

Sunsuper cops rating downgrades

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... Now Morningstar puts greater emphasis on fees and its existing five-pillar rating process (people, process, parent, performance and price). Previously the first three pillars were rated on a three-point scale - positive, negative and neutral but the ...

Australia among strongest on governance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... risks and shareholder rights, across 8500 companies in 72 countries to see how governance materially impacts financial performance. It found that the impact governance factors had on corporate financial performance differed depending on the strengths ...

LaSalle joins 2050 club

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... doing right by its clients, its people and the planet. "When we invest in ESG best practices, we are enhancing the performance of our clients' investments, and bettering the communities we live, work and invest in," Jacobson said. "We are proud to stand ...

UBS, Insight IM win Future Fund mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... financial year, reducing some of its exposure to international growth and buyout managers following a period of strong performance. "Although we have actively reduced the size of our unlisted property portfolio as we have neared the end of the property ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... no-reward risk came from, among other factors, underlying portfolio holdings cancelling each other out and hurting performance. "While the concept of the cancellation effect at a stock level is nothing new, the frequency of underlying holdings, style ...

Super fund chief to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... November 2007. MIESF chair Chris White described McRobert as the driving force behind the fund's competitive "investment performance, very low costs and personalised service to members" despite challenges facing smaller super funds. "The fact that MIESF ...