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UK pension funds pushed to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... experiencing similar pressure to that being felt by Australia's super funds, with the pensions regulator asking defined contribution (DC) funds with less than £5 billion in assets being urged to merge. In September last year, the UK pensions regulator ...

State Super rejigs defensives

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... investment grade structured credit. State Super manages about $42 billion in assets, of which about 20% is in defined contribution schemes while 80% is in defined benefit schemes. The defined contribution portfolio of about $8 billion, forgoes defining ...

Super fund advice not useful: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... fintech Smart's The future of global retirement report, looking at how those in the world's most advanced defined contribution pension markets think about and prepare for retirement. The research was commissioned by Smart and conducted by YouGov via ...

WTW launches working group

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... over this period, we are increasingly seeing capital moving away from defined benefit pension schemes into defined contribution, so there is a need to innovate in order to identify a structure that enables a wider investor base to access opportunities," ...

Frontier hires from UK partner

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... (LCP) in the UK. Harry Green was at LCP for five years as lead investment consultant to a range of LCP's defined contribution clients, advising trustees on strategic asset allocation, manager selection and governance matters. He was also a member of ...

Australia sweeps pension market rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
Australia is the most successful pension system among developed countries, according to Wills Towers Watson. The firm's Thinking Ahead Institute 2021 Global Pension Assets Study said Australia's thriving pension system boasts an 11.3% per annum ...

State Super names new chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... Charles Wu has been affirmed in the role, promoted from deputy chief investment officer and general manager, defined contribution investments. Wu joined the government fund in 2015 as head of asset allocation and risk, and was later appointed general ...

Pension plan sued for expensive, active strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... 10,170 participants with assets of about US$784 million. Pension schemes, otherwise known as a 401(k), are defined contribution plans that are the primary form of retirement savings in the US. The lawsuit was filed in the district court in the western ...

CFA Societies adds board members, president

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... Management investment director Ganesh Suntharam. Wu has been deputy chief investment officer and general manager defined contribution investments at State Super since January 2019, prior to which he was general manager, asset allocation. "I am excited ...

State Super appoints acting CIO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... working at Media Super as an investment manager, and at Mercer as an analyst. He is also the general manager of defined contribution investments, where he is responsible for investment strategy to achieve return objectives on a risk-adjusted basis. State ...