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New accounting standards put pressure on life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
Australian life insurers are unprepared for two new major accounting standards that will shake up the way profit is reported, a KPMG survey shows. The global survey of 160 life and health insurers, and reinsurers included Australian companies. It gauged ...

AustralianSuper secures WestConnex stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
AustralianSuper's infrastructure investment portfolio now exceeds $13 billion following its joint acquisition of WestConnex in New South Wales. AustralianSuper members are now part owners in a $9.26 billion integrated transport project that will ...

Industry fund awards fixed income ESG mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... returns for our members while actively managing the environmental, social and governance risks across our investment portfolio," Turnbull said. About 15% of the mandate will be invested in green bonds. The new mandate doesn't change the fund's ...

Cromwell operating profit up 3pct, trims distributions

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... $0.2 million to $2.2 million, due to the Northpoint Tower project management fee. Its $2.5 billion property investment portfolio reported an operating profit of $115 million which is down 7.7% over the prior year. This was mainly due to sale of assets ...

Funds SA appoints chair, director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
The $30 billion public fund manager has chosen a former UniSuper head of public markets to chair its board, while another investment veteran is joining the board as a director. Both spots opened up when former South Australia Deputy Premier and Treasurer ...

Boutique fund manager eyes second LIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... FY18 results, including after-tax profit of $41.2 million (up 12%%), chairman Karl Siegling said the LIC's investment portfolio performed well over the past year. "[It delivered] strong risk adjusted returns for our investors...outperforming the All ...

VanEck adds two to Australian team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... International. In her new role, she will be responsible for supporting funds operations and management of VanEck's investment portfolio. She will also liaise with counterparties and custodians for settlements of trades and assisting with investments ...

US investment giant acquires global fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
One of the largest investment managers in the US now owns a 60% interest in a global ESG-focused fund manager with operations in Australia. Federated Investors, a $534 billion fund manager and SMA provider, has paid $440 million for a majority stake ...

Class streamlines investment solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
Class has made a new functionality available to financial planners to directly access specific information about investments. Under Class' partnership with data and analytics provider Simply Wall St, investors and financial planners can use the functionality ...

Global fund manager creates executive role

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
A $14 billion global fund manager gaining ground in the Australian market has appointed a director of investor relations for Asia Pacific to a newly created role. Mark Yetman joins Capital Fund Management (CFM) after 13 years with Dimensional Fund Advisors ...