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Industry fund awards emerging markets mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
An investment manager fast approaching US$10 billion in assets under management and advice recently won an emerging markets equities mandate from an industry superannuation fund. ClariVest Asset Management will manage the $75 million mandate from the ...

Mercer wins super admin mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
The global asset consultant has won a mandate with an industry super fund managing more than $14 billion. Mercer has been appointed by CareSuper as the fund's administration partner, taking responsibility of customer and fund support services from next ...

ASIC and FPA submit recommendations to RC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
ASIC and the FPA have made several recommendations to the Royal Commission, including eliminating the practice of grandfathered advice commissions. In its second round submission to the Commission, ASIC said it was concerned ongoing advice arrangements ...

AMP to fight class actions, prioritise performance

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
AMP confirmed it will vigorously defend two class action lawsuits brought against it by shareholders in the wake of the Financial Services Royal Commission. In an ASX announcement on the morning of its AGM, AMP stated it had been served with two class ...

Insto investment committees step away from status quo

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
QSuper and TCorp believe sequential investment models at large asset owners are past their used-by date and investment committees must be delegating day-to-day investment decisions. The two institutional investors use what is known as the total portfolio ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
What better to focus the minds of the Australian Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer than a general election coming to a theatre near us - no later than May next year. This time is not different. The government of the day is going out here, there and ...

Blue Sky chair steps down amid business restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
Blue Sky Alternative Investments' chair will step down at the annual general meeting and the group chief investment officer role will be made redundant as part of an overhaul of the company's business model and structure. Any executive directors other ...

Chief economist update: Talking trade tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
After the US-China "my tariffs are broader and bigger than yours" tit-for-tat, it's time for talks to bargain, hassle, negotiate and compromise. It's been nearly a month since America and China have exchanged tariff threats amounting to US$50 billion ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
The US Federal Reserve's 1-2 May FOMC meeting was both expected and a non-event - it kept the fed funds rate target at 1.5%-1.75% and more or less cut and pasted the FOMC Statement at its 20-21 March meeting. Well, maybe less, for May's statement was ...

Pension funds must recognise stewardship licence: WTW

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
There's an investment management view that too little is being spent globally on asset owner stewardship. An expert in the area says the world's largest pension and sovereign wealth funds must see corporate sustainability from the viewpoint that it's ...