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Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... dialled down because a lot of value managers rely on market conditions to deliver their outperformance. "It's been a pretty horrible period for value managers since the Global Financial Crisis." The team has also tried to minimise "filling buckets ...

Reducing super tax cap to $2m 'a concern': FAAA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... of "critical" advice reforms. "As soon as we know who that minister is, we'll certainly be taking to that minister a pretty long list of things that we think are important to get action on soon," Abood said. Abood said after engaging with members ...

Tariff impact on super 'profoundly worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... particularly those in the accumulation phase - to ride out the volatility. "The current crisis, it's man-made. And it's made pretty much by a single man. We know what the solution is here; the solution is for rational people to get around and understand ...

FAAA expands policy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... "disappointed". FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood said: "On a first read, we cannot support it without substantial change. This is a pretty disappointing outcome considering the large amount of time and resources that have been invested over three years ...

DBFO reforms package 'pretty disappointing': FAAA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) has come out swinging against Treasury and its second tranche of draft Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms, saying it can't support them without "substantial change." FAAA chief executive ...

State Super: In decline but doing fine

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... prompting it to create an in-house program. The fund also looked to credit and other areas to construct a portfolio that's "pretty well diverse." The fund has pared back its active manager program "quite significantly," Livanas said, with half its equities ...

Super funds to 'look more like insurers'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... they already look a lot more like alternatives managers and asset managers. So, there is a need for a single system that pretty much does all of that, the 'holy grail' of a single platform that can represent every asset class and can look at your rate ...

'We're not going anywhere': SS&C serious about Aussie expansion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... partners with our customers," he said. "We understand the assets that different funds are going to use and there's been a pretty big shift into private assets, which also creates a lot of differences for administrators, portfolio managers and investors. ...

Global tariffs to spike under Trump: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... the most important question and the most interesting one, it is also one that is still shrouded in uncertainty. [It is] pretty clear that we're not going back to the close to zero interest rates that we've had for the pandemic. That is a good ...

Renewable infrastructure opportunities for HNWIs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... wanting to be thoughtful or make an impact with their capital, it's an asset class that needs a lot of capital and is pretty directly aligned with the energy transition and getting to our net zero goals," he said. "I think a lot of people are looking ...