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Hume scrutinises super fund spend

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... ASX-listed company, super funds are now required to disclose the remuneration of key executives and "highly paid investment managers, in the same way that we expect ASX-listed companies to disclose this information to shareholders", she said. Providing ...

Channel Capital in management buyout

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... long time." In expanding overseas, Channel sees opportunity to offer infrastructure and services to other investment managers, with distribution potentially down the line - similar to how it started in 2013. "What we want to do with overseas markets ...

Rest climate case dismissed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
The Federal Court case brought by Mark McVeigh against the $57 billion industry super fund has been dismissed. The case was scheduled to be heard today but Justice Perram ordered that by consent the case was to be dismissed. McVeigh and Rest have been ...

AustralianSuper ratings slide at Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... pointed to the turnover in internal investment teams (with investors leaving for other superannuation funds or investment managers), illiquid assets and capacity in Australian equities. "Our enhanced ratings approach emphasises benchmark-relative performance ...

Industry fund updates investment fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... sectors and resulted in a higher investment fee due to the payment of performance based fees to some of our investment managers. "For example, buying shares and credit at lower prices in March/April 2020 have had a positive impact on fund performance." ...

Future Fund slashes fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... more passive investment strategies. During the last financial year, the fund paid $224.7 million to external investment managers, nearly a quarter (23%) less than the total payout in FY18 of $291 million. In terms of direct and look-through costs, these ...

UBS, Insight IM win Future Fund mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... won an Aussie equities, developed-market equities and emerging-market equities mandate, joining a stable of investment managers. The Future Fund also appointed Insight Investment Management to help manage the developed-market and emerging-market equities ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... partially or completely, and the magnitude of the impact on active risk, was surprising. This is the result of investment managers within a portfolio taking opposing positions, essentially offsetting one another," it said. As an example it cited, one ...

RIAA, AXA IM launch adviser ESG guide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... products become available to investors, it is integral that advisers become familiar with them, according to AXA Investment Managers and Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). RIAA and AXA IM have launched a free publication - The Financial ...

MySuper reforms could have downsides

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... reason behind that underperformance. This will be an incentive for funds to identify underperforming external investment managers or in-house investment team members and fire them. However, this incentive could actually put super funds at odds with ratings ...