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Results out: 13 funds fail YFYS performance test

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... MySuper, ASGARD Employee MySuper, Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund's LifeTime One, AvSuper Growth, BOC MySuper, Christian Super's My Ethical Super, Colonial First State's FirstChoice, Commonwealth Bank Group Super's ...

CBA offloads general insurance arm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
Commonwealth Bank has announced the sale of CommInsure General Insurance to the Hollard Group after divesting CommInsure Life and BoCommLife. Announced this morning, the sale agreement includes a 15-year strategic alliance that provides Hollard with ...

Catholic, Equip SFT to see Fairley exit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... Superannuation Fund, the Pitcher Retirement Plan, the Dow Australia Superannuation Fund and, most recently, Toyota Super and BOC Super. Fairley was first appointed chair of Equip in 2009 when the fund had less than $4 billion in funds under management. ...

Chief economist: Of capital gains taxes, COVID-19 and climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... earnings beating consensus expectations, strengthening recovery in global economic growth - so much so that the Bank of Canada (BOC) even made headlines as it became the first central bank in the world to taper - the surge in vaccinations in Europe while ...

Chief economist update: Bank of Canada walks the talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... walked their talks - preferring to wait for days better than the optimistic ones they anticipate. Not the Bank of Canada (BOC). It decided to taper QE at the conclusion of its April 21 meeting, to wit: "The Bank of Canada today held its target for the ...

Equipsuper in another merger

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... another successor fund transfer with an 83-year-old corporate superannuation fund that has more than $680 million of assets. BOC Super will merge into the $16 billion superannuation fund after its trustee determined that the decline in member numbers ...

CBA provides BoCommLife update

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has made progress on exiting life insurance after the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission approved the sale of its stake in BoCommLife. The bank will divest its 37.5% stake in BoCommLife to MS&AD Insurance ...

CBA progresses with divestment to AIA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
Commonwealth Bank has received another payment furthering the divestment of its life insurance business to AIA Group. CBA has received a payment of approximately $450 million for the sale of CommInsure Life with the proceeds resulting in a pro forma ...

Northern Trust launches ESG capability

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
Global custodian Northern Trust announced it has redeveloped its environmental, social and governance analytics capabilities to now include key environmental data categories. Northern Trust's clients, many of which are asset owners such as pension and ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
The fast-growing custodian is pitching a new ESG analytics tools to local superannuation funds and asset managers to track, compare and benchmark their ESG score. Northern Trust, which is best known in Australia as custodian to a number of public sector ...