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Vontobel expands Australia, New Zealand operations

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
Vontobel Asset Management (Vontobel) has hired a former Russell Investments investment consultant as senior relationship manager to broaden its institutional client coverage in the Australia and New Zealand regions. Prior to Russell, Bobby Bostic was ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... investors of sovereign risk, but the asset class, I think, will continue to persist, and it just goes to show why Australian super funds have to have a much broader perspective than just Australia in regards to that asset class," he said. What this means ...

Vale Mavis Robertson AM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
Mavis Robertson, one of the pioneers of the Australian superannuation sector, has died. Robertson's career spanned more than six decades in the union movement and then in superannuation as fund secretary of BUS (Building Unions Superannuation) and AUST ...

APRA-ABS super surveys to commence Jan 2016

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has written to super fund RSEs advising them that enhanced data reporting by super funds to facilitate the data needs of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will commence in January 2016. APRA ...

MySuper put spotlight on member outcomes: CIFR

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
MySuper has put greater emphasis on the retirement outcomes, focused product providers on the needs of disengaged members and promoted widespread innovation, according to a new report by the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR). Researchers ...

AIST and Mercer launch new super tracker

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015
... "The tracker will be an important tool for the industry to ensure that transparency and fairness underpin the Australian super system. Ultimately we want to make sure the system is working in the best interests for members," he said. Garcia also said ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... arguing that Australian funds were among the most expensive in the world. In response, the industry argued that Australian super funds provide a wider range of benefits than most pension funds globally - and anyway, MySuper hadn't had a chance to work ...

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... generally operate under an equal representation model. While the report acknowledged this fact, it argued that Australian super funds differ from single employer defined benefit schemes. "In defined benefit schemes sponsored by a single employer, equal ...

Hastings appoints new TIF portfolio manager

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
Hastings appointed a new portfolio manager for The Infrastructure Fund (TIF) to replace Peter Siapikoudis, who has moved to the role of portfolio manager, Australian mandates. Jonathan van Rooyen will take over responsibility for the TIF, managing the ...

Super funds out-growing local real estate

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
Australian super funds are fast out-growing the domestic real estate market and the largest will soon join the likes of AustralianSuper and the Future Fund in acquiring large overseas assets directly, according to real estate investment manager TIAA ...