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Macquarie tops mandate league tables

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... management mandates in the year to March end and Macquarie had the most wins, latest league tables from Rainmaker show. Superannuation funds, investment managers (via sub-advisory relationships) and asset consultants (via multi-manager services) appointed ...

FSU secures super pay increases

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
The Financial Sector Union (FSU) has confirmed employees at a number of super funds will receive pay increases in a deal that followed 12 months of negotiation. The FSU said it was pleased to have reached decisions with a number of super funds including ...

APRA funds can learn from SMSFs: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... fund and tax structure, financial advice and investments. "The key advantage of SMSFs is that they pool family superannuation - more than 85% of these funds have been set up for couples," Rice Warner said. "A couple at retirement often requires four ...

LGS certified carbon neutral

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
Local Government Super (LGS) announced it has been certified carbon neutral through Climate Active. LGS said the certification means it is one of only five Australian super funds to achieve carbon neutral status. The fund said it was awarded the certification ...

Cbus, Media Super start due diligence

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
The $54 billion Cbus Super and $6 billion Media Super have signed a memorandum of understanding and will commence due diligence. The two industry funds are aiming for the joint agreement to be in operation in 2021, conditional on due diligence to establish ...

Private equity weathers COVID-19 crisis: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... working arrangements. Willis Towers Watson director of manager research Dania Zinurova said that with only 4.6% of superannuation fund assets invested in unlisted equity (according to APRA data from March 2020), there was clearly more room for allocation. ...

First State to dump $40m of thermal coal holdings

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
The $120 billion industry super fund has announced it will divest $40 million of its equity portfolio, including its indexed exposures, from thermal coal miners from October and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its listed equities exposures by ...

ATO can make cost of advice cheaper: Asher

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... Australians. "It seems clear that more direct government intervention may be required - just like the introduction of the Superannuation Guarantee, MySuper and even Account Based Pensions," Asher said in the recently-published dialogue paper titled ...

New partner at Stanford Brown

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... of experience in both financial advice and accounting to our clients. "In addition to his detailed knowledge of superannuation and tax law, he has built some extremely close relationships with his clients over time. We are thrilled that he has decided ...

AustralianSuper appoints head of financial crime

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
The country's largest superannuation fund has appointed a head of financial crime, security and resilience, reporting to its chief risk officer Paul Schroder. Tom Garcia is moving into the role after serving as AustralianSuper's head of product from ...