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Rest extends custody mandate with State Street

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2022
Following a review, State Street will continue to provide custodial services for the next three years. The mandate includes back office and custody services, accounting, unit pricing, performance, and analytics. As well as, tax and regulatory reporting ...

The future of defined contribution asset allocation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... would be a good idea to introduce private market assets into US 401(k)s as has successfully been the case in the Australian super system. To date, target date funds have been the norm in the US 401(k) system, growing to comprise of $3 trillion in assets ...

Apex Group brings Global Compliance Solutions to Australia

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
Apex Group has launched its Global Compliance Solutions offering to the Australian market. The financial service provider said the agile, global single-source solution delivers efficiency, simplifies compliance, and enables business opportunities from ...

Retail the next frontier for private markets: Preqin

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... confidence to allocate more comprehensively into private equity and private capital funds. Notably, on average, Australian super funds have targeted private equity allocations of 6.5% which is below the global average of 7.9%. Delving deeper on big super's ...

AustralianSuper breaks into world's top 20 pension funds

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... Australian funds will come in at higher ends in the future as more mergers occur. "In 2022, we have already seen Australian Super complete a merger with LUCRF Super, further increasing its scale," he said. "The flipside to this is that it could also ...

Will big super's unlisted investments amplify retirement savings?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2022
... business practices," the report said. Meanwhile, bearing in mind that 36% of the Australian stock market is owned by Australian super funds, unlisted assets also provide important diversification, good capital growth and ongoing yield with inflation ...

V-Square launches Australian ESG index strategy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
The Chicago based asset manager has extended its offering to Australian asset owners with the launch of the V-Square MSCI Global Equity ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition Indexed Strategy. The strategy tracks the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ...

KPMG spotlights super's biggest challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... considered together." Meanwhile, concerning adaptive investment operations, KPMG said despite an expectation for every Australian super fund to deliver strong and sustainable net investment returns to members, achieving this member outcome will directly ...

Four investment specialists join Resolution Life

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
Resolution Life Australasia has added three new investment specialists and an analyst to its investment team. Katrina Tran has been recruited as a senior investment manager. She joins from Mercer, where she spent three years most recently as an investment ...

Responsible managed funds outdo markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2022
... sub-markets, responsible funds still rose 31.9%, more than double that of the wider investment market. The corresponding Australian super responsible sub-market increased 78.1% over the latest year (partly due to the inclusion of UniSuper responsible ...