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Industry fund dips toes in private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
An $8.6 billion industry superannuation fund is gearing up its first private equity play in almost half a decade, as it readies for an environment of lower returns. Australian Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund chief investment officer Michael ...

Industry fund fined over independent advice claims

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
A major industry superannuation fund has been forced to remove "independent" from its financial advice messaging and consequently slapped with a financial penalty issued by the corporate regulator. ASIC alleged Hostplus provided misleading claims to ...

MAX Awards 2019: Get voting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... across 22 categories. Some of the big awards finalists are vying for include Sales Team of the Year (wholesale and institutional); Marketing Team of the Year; Executive of the Year - Distribution; and Executive of the Year - Marketing. "We are delighted ...

Pension fund giant cuts BHP

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
BHP Group is among several companies a $106 billion international pension fund has excluded from its investment universe as it aims to rid its portfolio of coal. Norway's Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP) took the decision to divest almost $520,000 ...

Communication fails to keep member interests at heart

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
Many superannuation fund members are feeling confused after receiving communication from trustees attempting to explain the new Protecting Your Superannuation Package laws. Some super funds however, are outshining others. APRA wrote to trustees today ...

ACSI calls for ESG, stronger stewardship

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... review of the regulatory framework for stewardship, which would consider a stewardship code that could apply to all institutional investors. This comes after ACSI developed the Australian Asset Owner Stewardship Code in 2018, which it says many investors ...

Should super funds segregate pension assets?

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
With 2.8 million super accounts slated to enter pension phase over the next decade, is it time superannuation funds follow QSuper's lead and start segregating their pension assets? That's a question a new research paper by Parametric managing ...

Janus Henderson EM team crumbles

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... equities, multi-asset and alternatives. Most of its AUM is raised through the intermediary channel (43%), followed by institutional (39%) and self-directed (18%). Key metrics fell in the first quarter of the year. Total revenue was down 5% as compared ...

The state of the banks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
The big accounting firms have released their analysis of the big banks' half year results, noting a continued decline in cash profits for the first half of 2019. The major Australian banks reported a combined cash profit after tax from continuing operations ...

SUPER Recruiters adds executive director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... Partnership, a specialist financial services executive search firm. Her other sales experience includes working as head of institutional sales at La Trobe Financial Services; a director of ASF Balmoral; regional sales manager at Macquarie Bank; and business ...