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DomaCom enters retail super market with new partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... successful play for the retail superannuation sector last week after its fund was approved for inclusion by an Australian super trustee. The DomaCom Fund will now be available as an investment option for members of Trustee Partners' retail super fund ...

Parametric appoints product manager from Willis Towers Watson

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... hit $250 billion in global assets under management, which it attributed partly to an increased appetite from Australian super funds for the firm's "after-tax and implementation efficiency philosophy." Briant said that super funds "understand that manager ...

Government superannuation bills will stand despite Royal Commission: O'Dwyer

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
The inclusion of superannuation in the Royal Commission into banks and the broader financial services sector will not delay any proposed or announced policy initiatives on super, Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer has confirmed. ...

Superannuation savings reach $2.5 trillion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... with funds", but many Australian companies "still have to go to America to borrow long-term debt." "Over half of Australian super funds is invested in the sharemarket as equities, whereas in some other [developed world] countries super funds only invest ...

Super funds driving PE growth: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
Superannuation funds' appetite for domestic private equity investments has reached new heights not seen since 2007, a new industry report shows. Australian superannuation funds ploughed $676 million of capital in private equity over the 2017 financial ...

Legg Mason appoints insto sales head from Media Super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
Legg Mason has appointed a new institutional sales director. Justin Nunan joins the $962 billion fund manager from Media Super, where he was an investment manager. Prior to that, he held multiple roles at ME Bank, including head of treasury sales, institutional ...

Melbourne boutique shutters under passive pressure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
The rise of passive investment and superannuation fund internalisation has led to a Melbourne-based Australian equities boutique terminating its only fund. In a letter to unitholders, Concise Asset Management said it has reluctantly decided to wind ...

Australian trustee hits top 10 responsible investment list

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
An Australian superannuation trustee is in the top 10 list of the world's most responsible asset allocators, according to a non-partisan US think tank. New America's Bretton Woods II program, which develops analytic tools and advocacy strategies for ...

Active the best way forward for super: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... funds do not invest with the average manager," Peterson said. He said the findings are important to the way that Australian super funds construct their investment portfolios, and hence the returns earned by members. He goes on to explain that past analysis ...

Macquarie wins $50m small cap mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
Macquarie has won a $50 million mandate from an Australian superannuation fund. Australian Catholic Superannuation (ACS) invested in the Macquarie Small Companies Fund, bringing total FUM in the strategy to $150 million. Over the past five years, the ...