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Hostplus CEO joins ACSI board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia presenting figures around the correlation between a company's market performance and executives' remuneration. Elia replaces the ACSI board position vacated by AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk. Current ...

Direct investment options are not SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... anecdotal evidence suggests the take-up of these direct investment options is slow and a hardly surprising outcome when performance has shown to be below the same funds' standard investment options. An example is Hostplus' member-direct investment option ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... more so given the latest growth figures showing that the economy is growing above trend - and gauging from the recent performance of the world ex-US economies financial markets and economies, most have already adjusted/in the midst of adjusting for its ...

AMP restructures China Fund to reduce discount

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... asset value (NAV) over time. The fund will also provide daily NAV estimates to increase transparency of the fund's performance, and it will clarify the components of the fund's management fee. AMP Capital has appointed a head of investor relations for ...

Retirees should expand asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... equity funds. [Also] rather than taking a constant level of income, retirees could vary their income according to the performance of their investments," Bint said. AllianceBernstein (AB) chief investment officer Australian equities, Roy Maslen also told ...

Star global equity manager to launch in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... annualised 19.64% in the five years to 31 July, comprehensively beating the benchmark's 15.22% per annum. The fund's performance is just as impressive over one, three and seven years and Morningstar has given it a five-star rating in the US. Marsico's ...

Mercer selects customer management platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... manage workflows across customer service, advice and operations. "We can run real time analytics on sales and service performance across the different divisions of the business and we're streamlining our customer service with integrated telephony, workflow ...

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices hails ESG leaders

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... recognition for their sustainability practices." He added, "The CSA is a state of the art, in-depth sustainability performance assessment methodology. Thanks to its broad reach, the results of the CSA are one of the leading sources of information on ...

TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... options across different insurance products. Canstar research manager Mitchell Watson added that "reporting on the performance of the life insurance sector for the period ending 31 December 2014, APRA's figures show that $7.032 billion was paid in death ...

IOOF appoints head of best advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... "composition of governance committees, formalisation of research advice processes and controls, harmonisation of staff key performance indicators, monitoring of adherence to policies and procedures and further strengthening team separation where there ...