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Professionalise sustainability within funds: Panel

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... she explained. She said this positive result is due to investor demand. "Major funders of the shipping industry are big banks around the world, they all have to demonstrate who they are lending money to and what those shipping companies are doing to ...

Aware Super restructures investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... director on the board of Oak Tree Group in Brisbane, City ID in Amsterdam, Vivenio Residencial in Madrid and a former board member of Bankstown and Camden Airports in Sydney. For his part, Hector oversees Aware Super's global infrastructure and real ...

Women-led super funds outperform over medium, long run

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... long-run impact," Antil said. Assuming a base average return of 5%, modelling of the 0.3 percentage point outperformance for a member from age 25 through to 67 sees $43,000 added to their super balance, or about 7% more. If the base average return is ...

Super fund advice needs more guardrails: Conference

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... Australia chief executive Sarah Abood, who also sat on the panel, pointed to a straightforward example of advice - when a member in accumulation phase wants advice on the best investment option. Where it becomes more complicated, however, is when members ...

"A lawyer's picnic": QAR report slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... advice being only accessible to those who can afford it. Those who cannot "will be left with the conflicted advice of the banks and super funds." Among her proposals, and as anticipated, Levy suggested amending the Corporations Act to allow for all financial ...

More alpha gains through ops

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022
... managers who have long run a full in-house operations team, super funds have historically run operations predominantly on the member side of the business. The introduction of internalisation to a business that is already exposed to heightened complexity ...

Expand access to financial services: AUSTRAC

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
AUSTRAC has released guidance to banks and superannuation funds on helping those without access to traditional identification documents access financial services. The guidance aims to support people from diverse backgrounds and in challenging circumstances ...

Trustees must improve IDR processes: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... information it already had on hand for the trustees. They also represented a range of sectors and held a collective 5.1 million member accounts and $361 billion in assets, as at 30 June 2021.

Super assets decline despite contributions surge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... quarterly ROR, as investment markets have suffered losses predominantly due to tightening monetary policy by many central banks globally, continuing uncertainty largely related to the conflict in Ukraine, pressures from disrupted supply chains and weaker ...

Industrial property ensures big wins for TelstraSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2022
... internal financial planning professionals. Also, TelstraSuper has a high engagement rate allowing it to personalise the member experience based on the knowledge of members. When TelstraSuper members visit the website and their online account, what they ...