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Treasury expected to release retirement review

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... Ralston produced the 600-page report. Their job was not to make any recommendations (akin to the Royal Commission or Productivity Commission's final reports) but set the facts on four areas: how the retirement income system supports retirees, the ...

ESG push not going anywhere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... for 83% of private equity firms and 55% of hedge funds in Asia Pacific. Managers are also concerned with employee productivity, deterioration in firm culture and difficulty in training their teams going forward. "There are a number of reasons that diversity ...

AIST pokes holes in Your Super, Your Choice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... such an approach risks making outcomes worse for members that remain in the product, which is out of step with the Productivity Commission's recommendation that APRA take decisive action to oversee or direct a transfer of members to a better fund. And ...

The hits you don't see hurt the most: Aviva

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... question of whether working from home is a short-term trend or the way of the future. In the report, Aviva suggests productivity is the key question. It cites a survey from US software firm TIBCO which found that 80% of people in virtual meetings are ...

RBA measures not solely due to COVID: Treasury

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... relative importance of different structural drivers, it is likely due to some combination of population ageing, the productivity slowdown and lower preferences for risk among investors," Kennedy said. "A number of central banks have suggested that interest ...

Super funds bullish on hiring

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... senior executives." "Some projects had been delayed as a result of staff working from home and home schooling, their productivity was significantly reduced. Now with kids back at school, working parents' productivity has been freed up and we have ...

New super benchmarking flawed: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
... consequences, according to Rice Warner. Rice Warner said the proposed package to implement some of the recommendations by the Productivity Commission (PC) poses some issues in effectively cracking down on fund underperformance. "One of the proposed changes ...

Hostplus invests in vegan meat, sustainability

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... allocation to private equity has invested in Australian farm robotics company Agerris which aims to increase farm productivity, reduce chemical requirements and labour costs through artificial intelligence. US start-up Swift Solar also received a cash ...

Stapling equals accountability: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... of the Age Pension, superannuation and voluntary savings, and does not propose recommendations similar to what the Productivity Commission would do. Hume said that paving the "glide path" between accumulation and decumulation phase was an important consideration ...

Advice reforms to be legislated: Hume

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... your biggest concerns. I'm constantly looking for opportunities for red tape reduction, identifying obstacles to productivity and profitability and reducing the burden on your industry and participants," she said. The single disciplinary body, Hume ...