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UK regulator targets conflicts in investment consulting

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... competition and conflicts of interest within the asset management industry in its sights. The heads of the UK's largest pension funds have called for stricter oversights in the investment consulting industry amid concerns consultants are increasingly ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
Many pension funds and insurance companies around the world are staring insolvency in the face unless they adopt measures that address an imbalance between assets and liabilities. This is the view of OECD director financial and enterprise affairs, and ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... companies to have a majority of independent directors. This measure, which globally applies to listed companies and pension funds will enhance our super system by boosting trust and confidence that super directors are genuine fiduciaries. The time to ...

First State Super appoints ex-Barclays risk head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... chief risk officer Suzette Thurman. Earlier in September, FSS made the Pensions & Investments/Towers Watson top 100 pension funds list in the 96th place, along with other Australian funds including the Future Fund, AustralianSuper, UniSuper and QSuper. ...

Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... growth rate of 11% per annum - ahead of most other regions in the study. Total assets of the world's largest 300 pension funds grew by more than 3% in 2014 to reach a new high of more than US$15 trillion. Ten years ago total assets at the world's largest ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... superannuation funds should not be worrying about their local counterparts and be more concerned with what international pension funds are doing as competition for assets continues to grow. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ...

Pengana and PanAgora strike new deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... 125 institutional investors worldwide including large sovereign wealth funds as well as government and corporate pension funds. It manages about $2 billion for Australian institutional investors. Pengana currently manages around $1.5 billion in assets ...

ACSI calls for better company disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... companies. ACSI is a collaboration between 29 Australian profit-for-members superannuation funds and six international pension funds. Through ACSI the institutional asset owners exercise their collective ownership rights to improve the management of ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... set up about 30 years ago to create asset allocation solutions for institutional investors. The ISG mainly serves pension funds and insurance companies, and it manages about US$220 billion ($300 billion) globally. Wills sums up his current role at SSGA ...

Advisers to remain at centre of CBA: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... enough job for the 800,000 households who own the Commonwealth Bank and the millions more who own it through their pension funds." He said that as the institution strived to operate at greater and greater scale, for the good of Australia's prosperity ...