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Member contributions lift super assets to $3.5tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2022
... rising steadily from $194 million in June 2019, when members first began investing in digital assets. Overseas managed investments and residential property assets worth $1.9 billion and $472 million respectively comprised the majority of the SMSF asset ...

Former Spaceship chief executive banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
... AICD assessments on his behalf. The investigation found Paul Kevin Bennetts, who led both Spaceship's managed investments business and super fund for two years, dishonestly obtained his Australian Institute of Company Directors qualification by having ...

Rest hires from Cbus, BT

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
... equities at BT. Singh will be responsible for Rest's equities and fixed income assets, including internally managed investments and those outsourced to external manager. He will also chair the investment selection sub-committee, responsible for portfolio ...

HESTA awards tech mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... to the Investment Book of Record which will allow the investment team to see both internally and externally managed investments, to enhance risk management and asset allocation decisions. SimCorp senior vice president and managing director Oliver Johnson ...

Pension plan sued for expensive, active strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... caught up in a class action that alleges a major pension plan exposed members to risky, expensive actively-managed investments instead of allocating to safer passive options. The complaint, filed against Coca-Cola Consolidated by its former employees ...

Morningstar creates chief ratings officer role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... manager research, overseeing the global manager-research team and ratings-setting on funds, ETFs and other managed investments. Lee Davidson has been promoted to lead global manager of research and quantitative research, expanding on his existing remit. ...

RIAA, AXA IM launch adviser ESG guide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... management are in responsible investments, up 17% from $980 billion in 2018. In addition, 37% of all professionally managed investments are using one or more responsible investment approaches. "RIAA's research shows Australian investors would like to ...

New class action regulations slammed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... view is yes, more regulation is required, but along with many other submissions I've read, I don't think the managed investments scheme or the AFSL would be the most appropriate method to do that, and I don't think regulation for litigation funders is ...

Spaceship Super gets boost from Voyager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
Spaceship chief executive Andrew Moore says its managed investments business has been the "single, strongest" source of growth for its $300 million superannuation fund. Spaceship, which started out as a superannuation fund in 2017, added a managed funds ...

Zenith defends LICs/LITs

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... 2019, which caused some LICs and LITs to increasingly trade away from their underlying value," he said. "Most managed investments transact at their asset value, so having vehicles which can trade at discounts of 30% or more is undoubtedly an easy target ...