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JANA awarded mandate for $2bn construction leave scheme

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024
JANA Investment Advisers will now provide asset consulting services for LeavePlus, a $2 billion portable long service leave scheme for Victorian construction industry workers. Formerly known as CoINVEST, LeavePlus administers the scheme for 280,000 ...

Nest plans retirement income play

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
Nest, the UK's largest defined contribution workplace pension scheme by members, will work with WTW and Hymans Robertson to develop a retirement offering. It's estimated that in the coming years one in three UK workers will have pension savings with ...

Australia's best-performing super fund says no to crypto

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
Colonial First State (CFS), the best-performing super fund of the last financial year, has ruled out the idea of adding crypto to its investment portfolio. Despite its popularity, with nearly five million Australians owning crypto, CFS chief investment ...

Former Mercer Super chair named Actuary of the Year

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
The Actuaries Institute has named Jan Swinhoe the Actuary of the Year for 2024. Swinhoe has an extensive background in financial services, having worked across insurance, institutional banking, and superannuation. She is currently a non-executive director ...

More financially secure women seek advice: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
Financially secure women in the second half of their lives prioritise living comfortably in retirement and travelling as their key goals and seek financial advice to maintain a level of prosperity, a new survey from Perpetual Private found. Canvassing ...

Super to be paid on parental leave from July 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... the workforce to care for children has 12% less income in retirement than a person who has no career break." Meantime, the ACTU welcomed the bill's passage, with president Michele O'Neil saying: "Today is a great day for hundreds of thousands of parents. ...

Megatrends impacting portfolio construction: Mercer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
Mercer portfolios solutions leader Rebecca Jacques outlined some of the major trends investors need to take into consideration when building clients' portfolios at the Financial Standard Managed Accounts Forum. Jacques said there are several structural ...

Advisers reveal hurdles preventing SMA adoption

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of model portfolios EMEA and APAC Kathleen Gallagher revealed the main concerns financial advisers have with employing managed accounts in their business, at the 2024 Financial Standard Managed Accounts Forum. ...

Payday Super penalties ramped up ahead of legislation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... lobby group said. The Australian Council of Trade Unions also urged the government to introduce legislation swiftly, with ACTU president Michele O'Neil saying: "Every dollar in workers' super accounts is essential to ensuring that they can afford ...

AMP BOLR litigants face lengthy payout process

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Despite the Federal Court greenlighting the AMP Buyer of Last Resort (BOLR) lawsuit settlement amount, there is still a long way to go before financial advisers can have peace of mind with the payout process to potentially draw out to mid-2025. This ...