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SMSFA, FSC call for infrastructure investment access

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
The SMSF Association and the Financial Services Council (FSC) are calling for self-managed super funds to have access to unitised, liquid infrastructure investments as a way of generating economic growth. The two organisations, which represent more ...

Aussie investors unhappy with pandemic performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
Australian investors are considerably more dissatisfied with portfolio performance than their global peers, according to bfinance's mid-year Asset Owner Survey. Over 40% of super fund respondents in Australia have been dissatisfied with the performance ...

Boutique appoints chief operating officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
A Melbourne boutique has hired a new chief operating officer, who has previously worked in similar roles at Perennial and Prodigy. Lewis Bearman is joining Blue Orbit Asset Management in the newly-created role effective August 4. Bearman was most recently ...

AustralianSuper partners with greenhouse gas giants

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
Australia's largest superannuation fund has partnered with the country's major greenhouse gas emitters in a new initiative which will see them work towards a decarbonised future. AustralianSuper, joined by NAB and Schneider Electric, has partnered ...

Hume calls out ERS fake news

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
At the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Summit Senator Jane Hume has said "fake news" about consumers losing life insurance due to the early release of super has irritated her. Hume said consumers would not lose life insurance policies held ...

Calls for broad default life insurance system

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
There have been renewed calls from the country's major life insurers and adviser groups for a reset of the life insurance sector to allow for greater access. The Choice and Assess to Life Insurance (CALI) campaign, includes members from AIA, MLC ...

State Street to launch ESG ETF

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
State Street Global Advisors is expecting to launch a new low-cost environmental, social and governance (ESG) ETF on the ASX on August 5, with a similar risk-return to the ASX 200. The SPDR S&P/ASX 200 ESG Fund will go by the ticker E200 and is the ...

Chief economist update: Second wave comes to Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
Getting bitten by the love bug may be lovelier the second time around but definitely not if it's a second bite from the coronavirus. Australia is currently in the midst of it. Now the second wave looks like it's come to Japan. According to Kyodo ...

Giselle Roux joins Melbourne boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
The former chief investment officer of Escala Partners and JBWere has joined a Melbourne boutique in an investment advisory role. Roux left Escala in August 2019 after six years with the firm, following US-based Focus Financial Partners taking a stake ...

MSCI shifts to the cloud with Microsoft alliance

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
Global index provider MSCI has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to shift its products, data and services onto the cloud, in a move that the duo says will accelerate innovation among the global investment industry. The partnership will enhance ...