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QIC purchases New York shopping centre

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... said the deal provided an opportunity to take a strategic stake "in a quality retail asset within a tightly held institutional asset class, and provides even further geographic exposure to the US East Coast." Leigh said the expanded joint venture with ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Illiquid and alternative asset strategies will only increase across the institutional investment market in 2016 according to latest reports from BlackRock and Willis Towers Watson. A BlackRock survey of more than 170 of the firm's largest institutional ...

LGS adds 15 ETFs to member-direct option

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
Local Government Super has expanded its member-direct investment facility with 15 new exchange-traded funds. This brings the number of available ETFs to 28. Currently LGS uses ETFs from BetaShares, ETFS Metal Securities Australia, iShares, Market Vectors ...

Treasury revises cost of super tax concessions

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
The estimated cost of superannuation tax concessions to the federal government this year has been revised down by about $4 billion according to the latest Treasury figures. Treasury released its 2015 Tax Expenditures Statement (TES) on Friday and showed ...

Pensioners want DB decision reversed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
The Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association (CPSA) has launched a campaign for defined benefit pensioners who received a shock in their first 2016 Age Pension payment. On behalf of DB pensioners CPSA is proposing to write to federal Treasurer ...

Support to recycle Queensland assets

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
Queensland opposition leader Lawrence Springborg has received support after flagging his Liberal-National Party (LNP) were again open to discussions on asset recycling in the sunshine state. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland (CCIQ), which ...

Morningstar appoints head of sales and distribution

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... teams and providing strategic leadership and management responsibility for the Russell SuperSolution Master Trust institutional retirement savings solution. She has also worked as director of national sales development, retirement and investor services ...

Members should vote for super fund directors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
The Governance Institute of Australia is proposing superannuation members at not-for-profit funds be given the right to vote for trustee directors as a solution to the governance debate. Governance Institute of Australia chief executive Steve Burrell ...

Hastings names new UTA portfolio managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... $12.4 billion (as at 31 December 2015) across a number of funds and mandates. Hastings' clientele totals about 70 institutional investors.

Ageing Australia will impact budget for next decade

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
An ageing population and the associated pressures on health funding are expected to place significant tolls on the federal budget over the next decade according to a Treasury official. Secretary to the Treasury, John Fraser told the Sydney Institute ...