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MUFG Pension & Market Services awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
MUFG Pension & Market Services (MPMS) has awarded Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) a mandate to help transform its retirement solutions business. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in the new partnership, outlines joint initiatives in product development ...

One in five pension funds face liquidity risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Nearly one in five pension funds face liquidity risks particularly as they increase allocations to private assets, a new survey shows. The study of pension funds from the UK, US, Netherlands, Canada, and the Nordics by Ortec Finance reveals many are ...

How to simplify super to get better retirement outcomes: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... income. The report said from age 75, the opt-in basis would no longer apply, and income would be automatically provided from pension products - mirroring the requirement in the US, where required minimum distributions must commence at age 73. Mercer ...

Perpetual awards mandate to Equity Trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2025
... Trustees Superannuation will takeover trustee duties on 1 March 2025 from Perpetual for the Select Super Plan and Select Pension Plan. This is still subject to the parties finalising legal agreements. Perpetual said its decision to retire as trustee ...

Goodman Group welcomes Norwegian investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... sovereign wealth fund - as an investment partner in the Goodman North American Partnership (GNAP). NBIM has acquired Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's (CPP Investments) 45% interest in GNAP. In addition, Goodman Group acquired a portfolio of primarily ...

Macquarie AM puts money in Aussie real estate investment firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... series, following the Asia-Pacific opportunistic real estate partnership (MREP Asia 1). The fund has a strong focus on pension and sovereign wealth funds across Australia, Canada and the Middle East and targets "strong structural macroeconomic drivers" ...

AI can improve super fund value chain: CFA Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Superannuation funds and the broader global pension system can benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) in every corner of the value chain to ultimately provide efficient, personalised services to members, new research from the CFA Institute found. ...

Australian Retirement Trust takes stake in Pattern Energy Group

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) and Dutch pension fund ABP will acquire Riverstone Holdings' equity stake in US-based renewable energy and transmission infrastructure company Pattern Energy Group. Pattern Energy Group was founded by Riverstone Holdings ...

AMP defies super fund herd with Bitcoin bet

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
... quashed any notion of allowing members to have voluntary exposure to bitcoin. He also swatted down suggestions that other pension funds are investing in bitcoin. "... we're not seeing much evidence of that at all. What you're seeing is retail ...

FSCP reprimands two advisers for sloppy tax advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... adviser failed to obtain or consider the client's superannuation assets in the Public Sector Superannuation Scheme (PSS) pension fund. Consequently, the client needed to withdraw $120,735 from the super account and pay a tax bill on the associated earnings ...