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BT un-aligns group insurance, awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
Westpac's BT super has awarded a group insurance mandate, switching members away from Westpac Life Insurance Services. AIA Australia has been appointed as the new group insurer, with the change coming into effect from 1 July 2020. The change will impact ...

HSBC hit with $2.3bn suit over Disney investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... opportunity to back films like Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and Confessions of a Shopaholic. UK law firm Edwin Coe is representing a group of Eclipse Film Partnership investors who paid "significant sums" into the schemes and entered into loan agreements ...

PrimeWest acquires asset manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
The ASX-listed property fund manager has paid $10 million to acquire a farmland asset manager as it looks to build a presence in A-REITs. PrimeWest will now own 100% of GoFARM Asset Management which is the manager to the REIT Vitalharvest Freehold Trust ...

Report reveals superficiality of ESG pledges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... AustralianSuper, Cbus, BT, Russell Investments, First State Super, UniSuper and AMP. The Investor Group on Climate Change is a group of 74 institutional investors and other parties concerned about the impact of climate change on their investments. To ...

Super withdrawals being misused

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... 64%, appears to have been spent on discretionary items such as clothing, furniture, restaurants and alcohol. "There's a group of people out there living very large on pizza and beer courtesy of tax-free super. These are the most expensive pizzas they ...

Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Although the last two months have been marked by increased volatility and disruption, small caps have largely outperformed. During March, small caps performed broadly in line with their larger counterparts, with the ASX Small Ordinaries Index dropping ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
With global markets rocking one way and the other in the last two months, it's not too far a stretch to imagine investors are feeling a little seasick, or at the least dumbfounded. Despite a recession knocking on the world's door, investors ...

CBA Group Super posts -7.7% returns for March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
CBA Group Super's balanced option returned -7.7% in March quarter amid COVID-19 volatility, pushing its one-year returns into the negative territory while longer-term remain buoyant. The average not-for-profit superannuation fund's posted -9% ...

Future Fund board members reappointed

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
The government has reappointed two members of the $168 billion sovereign wealth fund's board of guardians. Carolyn Kay and Jane Wilson, who were both appointed for a five-year term in 2015, have had their appointments extended by three years and a year ...

No exclusions for frontline workers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... the commitment comes on behalf of participating life insurance FSC member companies. "Frontline healthcare workers are a group who could be exposed to contracting COVID-19 and to this end, participating life insurers are making a commitment that their ...