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Climate change reporting is cheap talk: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... Carbon Emissions Data Enable Investors to Mitigate Climate Change? reads. To help mitigate climate change, investors tend to switch investments from "brown to green companies" and engage in activist measures - but this all depends on available greenhouse ...

First strike at Pengana LIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
Pengana International Equities (PIA) faced a first strike against its remuneration report, as about 49.9% of votes went against it. Unitholders of the LIC had two resolutions before them at the October 28 Annual General Meeting: THE reelection of David ...

Evans and Partners looks to delist LITs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
Evans and Partners is seeking the nod from shareholders to convert its LITs to open-ended funds and to switch to Perpetual as responsible entity. The largest of these is the $279 million Evans & Partners Global Disruption Fund (EGD), followed by the ...

ASX delays CHESS replacement again

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... much higher processing levels and sooner, is now a Day 1 requirement." This is the second time the ASX has delayed the switch to distributed ledger technology (DLT), which was originally slated to go live in April 2021 and then pushed back to April 2022. ...

Aware Super in-houses fund administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... includes fund administration, and communication and engagement with members -- which will all be done in-house after the switch. Aware already has a telephone contact centre in Melbourne while Mercer has provided certain communication services to some ...

Super fund execs accused of quasi-insider trading

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... conflicts management policy. Staff members that are aware of sensitive information are subject to blackout periods and cannot switch options until the information is also available to members. "I believe this is UniSuper, who have admitted that one member ...

AustralianSuper ratings slide at Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
AustralianSuper is the latest casualty in Morningstar's ratings rejig, as three options with nearly 86% of its total $180 billion slide to the lowest analyst rating of "bronze". The superannuation fund's $135 billion balanced option, $13.5 billion high ...

Industry fund launches new passive options

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
A $6 billion industry superannuation fund has introduced a range of low-cost, indexed investment options for members as it closes two other options. LUCRF Super has made changes to its range of investment options to offer members a wider range of low ...

Hostplus freezes premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
As life insurance premiums continue to soar, industry fund Hostplus has managed to negotiate a premium freeze for members. The $48 billion super fund has secured a three-year freeze, which will maintain the current rate of death and total and permanent ...

MySuper reforms could have downsides

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... Institute also demonstrates that how funds choose external investment managers to allocate mandates to and how they choose to switch mandates is not necessarily a straightforward matter. The research by Deniz Yavuz, Sunil Wahal and Amit Goyal looked ...