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Fintech to take on super with new hire

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... new executive hire. Stake announced the appointment of Kris Kitto as head of product - super, a superannuation expert with close to 20 years of industry experience. Prior to taking the role at Stake, Kitto worked as an SMSF specialist at Intello, Solutions ...

Climate change reporting is cheap talk: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... change to the status quo, in which companies can voluntarily report their emissions forcing third-party data providers to close the data-availability gap with estimated data." The solution potentially lies in introducing an international body that regulates ...

Australians drain $35bn from super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... been removed from Australians retirement savings as the governments' early release of super (ERS) scheme edges towards its close. Having opened in April this year in response to the immediate effects of the COVID-19 lockdown, close to five million Australians ...

Club Plus announces insurance changes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
The $3 billion industry fund for club workers has announced significant changes to its insurance offering with group insurer OnePath. From 1 January 2021, members will see premiums on death, total and permanent disability and income protection cover ...

Chief economist update: Japan's third wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
More infections equals more monetary policy easing and more fiscal spending. Like the Fed and the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) also kept monetary policy unchanged - target rate at -0.1% and target for the 10-year Japanese government ...

Ironbark to wind up emerging markets fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Ironbark Asset Management has terminated an emerging markets small caps fund, after the underlying manager decided to close. The Ironbark Copper Rock Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund aimed to beat the MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index (in AUD) ...

Link hires from QSuper, NAB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... executive, superannuation solutions Dee McGrath. McCormack joins from QSuper where he held the lead growth strategy role for close to four years. Prior to that he was executive director, consulting and strategic partnerships at Commonwealth Bank. In ...

RC recommendations closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
A slew of regulation recommended by the Hayne Royal Commission to tighten the reigns in the superannuation industry will come into force with the introduction of a new bill. Introduced in Parliament on November 12, the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne ...

ESG push not going anywhere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Close to 90% of investors globally are asking their fund manager for environmental, social and governance (ESG) products, according to the 2020 EY Global Alternative Fund Survey. According to the survey, allocators are increasingly focused on ESG products ...

Invesco advances active non-transparent ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
Invesco is closer to launching a new ETF model in the US that hides the fund's investment strategy and some of its holdings. The global investment manager is in the final regulatory stage of having its active non-transparent ETF model approved. ...