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Minimum service standards for super funds welcomed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... offer services that meet or often surpass community expectations, there have been some areas where some funds have fallen short," Chalmers said. "Better service is especially important during sensitive and vulnerable moments in members' lives." Chalmers ...

Hostplus names deputy CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... Investments, Frontier and Towers Perrin. Orr's appointment surprised some investment professionals, given her relatively short time in the industry. However, they accept that her consulting experience with Hostplus would help a smooth transition ...

Regal FUM hits record high

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... record quarter for the group, Regal said. Despite the investment manager seeing a slight downturn in FUM within it's long/short equities and private markets asset classes, credit and royalites, real and natural assets, and multi-strategies saw substantial ...

VanEck to launch 'next evolution' long short ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
VanEck will list its first Australian equity long short ETF on the ASX, which aims to outperform the S&P/ASX 200. The VanEck Australian Long Short Complex ETF (ASX: ALFA) is an actively managed and high conviction Australian equity portfolio that targets ...

Trump inaugurated as 47th President

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... policies and approaches around the world as governments race to keep up." Geopolitical tensions and tariffs While Trump stopped short of introducing fresh tariffs in his first address, it is widely accepted that he will enact them. Saxo chief macro strategist ...

Grattan Institute renews calls for best-in-show super funds, partial annuitisation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
The Grattan Institute is urging the government to mandate the partial annuitisation of Australians' superannuation and implement the 'best-in-show' list of funds to help simplify a "complex" system and allow retirees to spend their savings ...

Australian Ethical grows FUM to $13.26bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... stop activities which worsen climate change. "Climate change risks and costs affect investors, directly and indirectly, short term and over the long term, and recent extreme weather events illustrate the growing financial as well as human impact of environmental ...

Investors should avoid overvalued US sectors: Talaria

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... opportunity may raise eyebrows, but employing a disciplined approach will help investors resist the temptation to chase short-term gains which carry significant risk." Selby-Smith said the year ahead poses a critical moment for Australian investors to ...

ESG linked to pay in top APAC listed firms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... significant change over the past year," Ganu said. Carbon most unpopular metric ESG metrics are most often used in 64% of short-term incentive plans, while only 30% of companies used them in long-term incentives, with the highest proportion in the industrial ...

Economist's wishlist: Lower tariffs, bond yields settling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... Mousina said that while higher trade tariffs are unavoidable given the incoming US President, she hopes the US will stop short of a trade war. "It is clear that US tariffs on its global trade partners are going to increase in 2025 with the incoming Trump ...