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APAC pension funds fastest growing: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
Sixteen of Australia's pension funds are among the world's largest, with the Asia Pacific region clocking the largest rate of growth last year despite COVID-19. New research from the Thinking Ahead Institute and Pensions & Investments shows the assets ...

YFYS spurs half to change asset mix

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
Only half of superannuation funds will be prompted to change their investment profile as a result of the new Your Future, Your Super performance test, an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees survey shows. The poll, conducted at AIST's ...

Wayne Swan to chair Cbus

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
Former treasurer and deputy prime minister Wayne Swan will chair $65 billion industry fund Cbus. The fund announced today that Swan would succeed long-serving chair Steve Bracks next year. Commenting on his appointment, Swan said: "I'm humbled to ...

Communicate risk, defensiveness differently: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
Funds will have to shift the way they communicate risk to members and rethink portfolios as the outlook for defensive assets changes in the coming years. That was the consensus from a panel at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ...

Results out: 13 funds fail YFYS performance test

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
Big names like Colonial First State's FirstChoice, BT Super and Christian Super are among the 13 superannuation funds that failed APRA's inaugural performance test. In all, APRA tested 76 MySuper products in this round, of which 13 failed. This ...

IOOF posts $143.5m loss for FY21

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
IOOF reported an underlying net loss after tax of $143.5 million for FY21, as it cleans out legacy arrangements and integrates recent acquisitions. Revenue for the year was $769.9 million (up 31%), of which $69.1 million came from MLC and $700.8 million ...

Future Fund boasts 22.2% returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
The Future Fund delivered its strongest performance to date, turning in 22.2% per annum at the end of June 2021. In releasing the financial year results this morning, the sovereign wealth fund also saw assets under management reach $196.8 billion. Chief ...

Link profit slips

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
Link Group posted a $163 million net profit loss in its full-year results which it attributed to an impairment charge in its banking and credit management (BCM) division. The administration software business recorded a non-cash impairment charge of ...

Magellan to move to higher tax rate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
Magellan Financial Group will start paying taxes at the full 30% rate from FY24, as the government abolishes laws that allowed it to pay only 10% tax on offshore earnings. MFG paid tax at 21.4% in the year ending June, lower than the 30% tax rate that ...

Frontier hires former Perpetual head of infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021
The asset consultant has hired a former Perpetual and UniSuper head of infrastructure as a principal consultant, investment governance in a six-month contract. Brett Lazarides was NAB Asset Management's head of alternative investments, Perpetual's ...