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Trustees cutting corners: Rowell

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... overlooking many of the regulator's guidance and refusing its requirements without "equal gusto." Rowell highlighted a number of poor practices at the recent AIST Trustees Forum, starting with substandard peer reviews, in which many super funds are pitting ...

Perpetual successor fund transfer to go ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... it was decided by Perpetual that a successor fund transfer was necessary to protect members best interests on the back of poor performance of the Perpetual MySuper option. A year later, in March 2020, CareSuper was confirmed as the fund members would ...

ASIC, IOSCO report on debt capital raisings

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... practices. ASIC's 668 Report noted that while a properly functioning debt capital market (DCM) is vital for the real economy, poor conduct in the industry can reduce both the confidence of issuers as well as investors, resulting in reduced participation ...

AMP tops worst-performing super funds list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
Retail superannuation funds provided by AMP and OnePath continue to charge high fees and deliver poor returns for members, the latest Fat Cat report shows. For the sixth year in a row, AMP continued to dominate robo-adviser Stockspot's Fat Cat list ...

Contango approves new WCM strategy

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... proposal was far superior to that endorsed by the board of CIE. "Our proposal is to reposition CIE following a history of poor performance for shareholders," WAM's Geoff Wilson said at the time. "The current boards proposal to appointment an unproven ...

Corporates have a critical role in social, environmental outcomes

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... impact investment company also identified "glaring inadequacies" when engaging with corporates during the year. These include poor levels of data on workforce inequalities and a lack of disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions by nearly two thirds of ASX ...

Women receive worse advice: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Financial advisers tend to give female clients poorer advice and recommend riskier assets compared to male clients, a new study shows. Women are significantly more likely to receive undiversified financial advice than men, researchers from the Hong ...

WAM makes LIC takeover bid

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... an off-market takeover bid for geared listed investment company Concentrated Leaders Fund (CLF) as a result of its ongoing poor performance and management woes. WAM is offering shareholders two of its shares for 3.7 CLF shares, representing a 15.2% premium ...

Lack of transparency in ESG funds criticised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
Research house Lonsec has criticised ESG fund managers for confusing ESG scores and a lack of transparency. "The traditional ESG approach tends to be more about process and less about outcomes," Lonsec head of sustainable investment research Tony Adams ...

QBE chief exits after workplace complaint

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... conduct, in a bid to protect the identity of the female employee. Following the investigation, the board concluded Regan's "poor judgement" concerning workplace communications did not meet the standards set out in its group code of ethics and conduct. ...