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Vanguard unveils positive impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
... needs, healthcare and quality of life, and lifting at is generically call the base of the pyramid - the needs of those poorer communities and lower socio-economic brackets." Baillie Gifford actively manages the portfolio of typically 25 to 50 global ...

Proxy advice reforms defeated

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... manager external affairs, policy and advocacy Jane Rennie welcomed the vote and said that the reforms would have resulted in poorer transparency of investee companies' practices and performance. "Just like company directors, lawmakers must be held ...

Government fails to prioritise $450 threshold

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
... a month. Hume acknowledged at the time of introducing the bill that this created structural inequality, contributing to poorer outcomes for women in retirement. According to Women in Super, there are approximately 300,000 workers in Australia currently ...

APRA to weed out underperforming choice products

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... Margaret Cole said historically, the choice sector's complexity, variety and sheer volume of options have helped to shield poorer performers from scrutiny. "By shining a light on choice products that are failing to deliver quality, value-for-money ...

Super system "frayed": Hume

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... " She identified these points as the main drivers of inefficiency and structural inequality within the system, driving poorer outcomes in retirement for many Australians. "For the past few years, this government has been chipping away at theses weaknesses ...

Greater scrutiny of choice products needed: Scheerlinck

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... billion in assets - are exempt from performance testing. The choice sector has been described by APRA as being at the "poorer-performing end of the spectrum", Scheerlinck noted. "While it's important to be performance testing MySuper funds, we need ...

Consumer group slams super self-assessments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
... and 48% identified at least one way to improve a product. "Funds with poor investment performance also tended to produce poorer quality reports than their better-performing counterparts. They were more likely to distract from poor performance with self-serving ...

More super tax concessions on table

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... ISA, the new legislation could cost Australian workers $230,000 in retirement savings by stapling them to a product with poorer performance. "Senators that vote to shackle workers to the worst performing funds will punch a huge hole in the savings of ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... others - caused by mutations of the virus, problems with the supply and slow distribution of the vaccine (especially among poorer nations) and most recently, anxiety over the linkage between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots (which has prompted ...

Zero rates causing risky business: Pengana

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... Capital equity analyst Ryan Fisher said near zero-interest rates is perpetuating the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. "The zero-interest rate policy was absolutely the appropriate thing for central banks to do in the wake of COVID-19 ...