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Super inefficiencies coming to the fore

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Blunt messages are being sent to the Productivity Commission as it prepares to conduct its comprehensive review of superannuation's competitiveness and efficiency. Responding to the Commission's recent draft measurement framework, the Australian Centre ...

Parametric keeps value factors in check

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Global asset manager and tax efficiency specialist Parametric is pitching to Australian superannuation funds with a factor-based investment strategy for global equities that targets the value factor. Parametric chief investment officer Paul Bouchey ...

CIPR discussion paper by year's end

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
There are still plenty of policy issues that have to be unpicked around Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement but Treasury says a framework discussion paper will be released by year's end. Treasury retirement income policy division head, Jenny ...

Alpha-beta split allows better asset allocation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
One of Australia's largest superannuation funds says it has strategically split its investment portfolio between alpha and beta to better monitor performance and asset allocation. Although not a new concept, First State Super has moved to an alpha and ...

Under reporting of super fees harming investors: ASIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
ASIC says it is motivated by the fact that inconsistent and under reporting of superannuation fees is harming investors and as a regulator it will not allow this to continue. ASIC has also revealed it recently knocked back industry requests to extend ...

Super funds must harvest farmland

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
A global real assets manager believes there are significant tailwinds for institutional investors placing capital in agriculture over the coming years, provided the approach is diversified and global. TIAA Global Real Assets managing director John Goodreds ...

Negative rates can generate positive returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
QSuper has positioned about one-fifth of its investment portfolio in fixed income with the view it diversifies against equities and prepares for ongoing global monetary policy shifts. The fund's head of investment strategy, Damian Lillicrap, said QSuper ...

Super CIOs say short-termism endemic

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Superannuation fund chief investment officers warn that endemic short-termism across super and the wider asset management industry will hurt member returns and place massive pressure on future investment strategies. A panel of fund executives told the ...

Capital stewards create value on Main Street

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Australia's superannuation system is estimated to reach more than $9.5 trillion in the next 20 years and the role of super funds as capital stewards will remain large, according to industry professionals. Capital stewardship is continually redefined ...

Super investment poorly communicated

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Tom Garcia believes the super industry has done "an extraordinarily bad job" of communicating its investment story to wider Australia. Opening the 2016 Australian Superannuation Investment ...