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Super funds must harvest farmland

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
A global real assets manager believes there are significant tailwinds for institutional investors placing capital in agriculture over the coming years, provided the approach is diversified and global. TIAA Global Real Assets managing director John Goodreds ...

AMP and CSIRO partner for solar project

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
AMP Capital and CSIRO have partnered to invest in a solar energy provider. Evergen develops and sells intelligent home energy systems, using CSIRO technology, to make efficient use of solar power. The systems continuously manage home energy output and ...

Retirement system needs work: Actuaries

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Australia's retirement system is not sustainable for people living longer than the average life expectancy if drawdown trends continue, according to the Actuaries Institute. The Institute says the number of super members to completely exhaust their ...

Indigenous workers retire with 27pct less: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Indigenous males are likely to retire with a superannuation balance matching non-indigenous females who have no career break according to new industry research. This finding comes from the latest paper examining retirement adequacy for indigenous Australians ...

Financial services jobs at risk of automation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
A new report released by the CSIRO predicts that 44% of jobs currently performed by Australian workers are at risk of automation, especially routine jobs within the services industry such as in the financial sector. The CSIRO report, "Tomorrow's Digitally ...

Minimum withdrawal rates act as default: CSIRO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Research from CSIRO says minimum account-based pension withdrawal rates are acting as a conservative default that sees retirees exceeding needs to self-insure their financial longevity. CSIRO behavioural economics and superannuation decision-making ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... consecutive month of gains in December to finish 2015 with an average return of 12.08%. China dedicated funds have outperformed the CSI 300 Index by 6.5% in 2015 with gains in Q4 alone coming in at 8.52%. On a year-to-date basis Asia ex-Japan mandated ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... and devaluation of the yuan - during this Northern Hemisphere winter that sent investors packing and out of risk trades. The CSI 300 index was 9.9% lower by the end of the first trading week of 2016 - it would have lost a lot more if not for the newly-imposed ...

Industry welcomes Innovation Statement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
The reforms detailed in the Government's recent Innovation Statement have been enthusiastically welcomed by the financial services industry and beyond. Among a package of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra yesterday were ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... Management Company (ChinaAMC) to launch the Market Vectors China ETF (CETF) to the Australian market. The fund tracks China's CSI 300 Index, which represents the largest and most liquid shares listed on the two stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen. ...