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Super funds must prioritise member experience: Consultant

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023
... appropriately. This becomes particularly crucial as members may not always have the time or expertise to manage their investments. In response, he notes some superannuation funds are adopting robotic process automation tools. These tools assist in monitoring ...

Courtenay House affiliate faces prison

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
Former Courtenay House Investments contractor and promoter Athan Papoulias has been sentenced to two years' jail time for his role in the unlicensed financial services business. As part of his sentence, Papoulias will also complete 120 hours of community ...

SEC fines Mormon Church investment arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023
... manager of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, failed to file documents that disclose the church's investments. Instead, it created 13 shell companies that obscured the value of the portfolio and filed Forms 13F (a form investment managers ...

AMP profits, declares first dividend since 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
... it lost $146 million. It recorded revenues of $56 million, driven by impairments to the carrying value of practice investments in FY21 not being repeated ($18m), higher licensee fees ($15m), and growth in its equity investment portfolio ($4m). However ...

Super, advice class actions dampen CBA results

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... Commission, as it looks to tackle several class actions in 2023. One ongoing lawsuit alleges that Colonial First State Investments Limited (CFSIL) kept members from the CFS FirstChoice Fund and Commonwealth Essential Super invested in in-house products. ...

Private equity still hot: State Street

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2023
... have built up their capabilities, investment teams and internal infrastructures to really understand private markets investments." Within private markets, private equity (PE) remains the most attractive asset class, with 63% of institutional investors ...

Macquarie profits boosted by commodities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2023
... of $797.8 billion at 31 December 2022, broadly in line with 30 September 2022," she said. "In the quarter, public investments AUM fell 1% to $513.5 billion, driven by foreign exchange movements and net flows, partially offset by positive market movements." ...

Bloomberg pays US$5m in SEC charges

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... customers, including mutual funds, may use BVAL prices to determine fund asset valuations, including valuing fund investments in government, supranational, agency, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, and securitised products. Therefore, BVAL prices could ...

Cbus pledges $500m to support Housing Accord

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2022
... Standard, a Frontier Advisors report commissioned by Industry Super Australia said that affordable and social housing investments are more stable, and less volatile that traditional commercial property sectors. Institutional investment into affordable ...

Affordable housing investments a win-win: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... councils. "Institutional investors are reluctant to pursue affordable housing developments because there are alternative investments with more attractive return profiles. In Australia, there are no consistent targets for affordable housing across states ...