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Industry fund adds to executive leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
An industry superannuation fund managing more than $10 billion has filled two c-suite roles vacated earlier this year. Statewide Super has appointed Deloitte risk advisory director Jason Muir as chief risk officer, and EY director Simone Dyda as chief ...

Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
US bourses fell overnight after data revealed 3.8 million Americans filed for unemployment last week. Over the past six weeks, 30.3 million Americans have filed claims for unemployment benefits as businesses shutter thanks to coronavirus shutdowns. ...

Colonial First State closes global fund

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
Colonial First State has terminated a $19.5 million diversified fund, after it returned -11.7% in the first three months of the year. The Acadian Diversified Alpha fund will no longer be available to investors, with switches and redemptions from the ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
With global markets rocking one way and the other in the last two months, it's not too far a stretch to imagine investors are feeling a little seasick, or at the least dumbfounded. Despite a recession knocking on the world's door, investors ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Junk bonds, despite the unfortunate name, aren't the trash of the investment world, although in the current uncertain environment they sure could be. These credit products are issued by governments and companies, and offer higher rates of return ...

Super CIOs defend illiquid assets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
At a virtual round table hosted by QIC the chief investment officers of AustralianSuper, LGIAsuper and more defended allocations to illiquid assets. Following weeks of scrutiny over potential liquidity issues facing super funds, the chief investments ...

Is it really as bad as it seems?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Pandemic, crisis, unprecedented; these are some of the terms that have been filling up our newsfeeds, but is this really such a big deal? Everyone has heard the phrase 'don't let the solution be worse than the cause' and many people think this is worth ...

Investment approaches in change phase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
The COVID-19 crisis may be the push superannuation funds needed as investment processes make the switch from strategic asset allocation (SAA) to a total portfolio approach (TPA). At the end of 2019, before the effects of the pandemic reached Australian ...

Advice chief leaves industry fund giant

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
The financial advice chief of a major industry superannuation fund has departed, as the fund's leadership shuffles. UniSuper chief of financial advice John (Jack) McCartney left the $86 billion industry fund late last month, after more than six ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
The fast-growing custodian is pitching a new ESG analytics tools to local superannuation funds and asset managers to track, compare and benchmark their ESG score. Northern Trust, which is best known in Australia as custodian to a number of public sector ...