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AustralianSuper consortium ups bid for Navitas

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
The BGH Consortium, which includes AustralianSuper, has finally unlocked the doors to Navitas after it upped its previously rebuffed bid to acquire the company. The Navitas board yesterday granted exclusive due diligence to the consortium, after it ...

New owner at Strategic Insight

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
New York-based research house Strategic Insight has been acquired in a deal expected to close soon. The buyer is Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a company speciaising in responsible investment and governance solutions. The transaction's value ...

ClearView director dismissed of charges

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
Criminal charges laid against ClearView Wealth non-executive director David Brown by Papua New Guinea police in August were dismissed in court on Friday. Brown is the chief investment officer for PNG's National Superannuation Fund (NASFUND). On 30 July ...

Superannuation a mystery to students: survey

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
A new survey has revealed a "startling knowledge gap" in super, with close to half of Australian students knowing little to nothing about superannuation. Student Super's survey also found that 42% percent of the polled students were unsure about ...

Government needs to rethink CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... final report. Treasury has already extended the deadline on Comprehensive Income Retirement Products to July 2022, and most super funds have done very little work on it. The key point of the Retirement Income Covenant (which was released after the PC ...

AFSL super options under the lens

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The final report recommends ASIC should have greater oversight of the superannuation products sitting on the approved product lists of AFSLs. The Productivity Commission calls for all Australian Financial Services Licensees (AFSL) to "immediately" be ...

CFS tops up Morgan Stanley mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... lifestage options. Morgan Stanley's Total Return Strategy is now managing $134 million for the FirstChoice Employer Super LifeStage funds, as at November end. The mandate was appointed on October 17. CFS says it made the change to manage the fixed ...

KPMG hires legal services partner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
KPMG's Australian legal advisory business has hired a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to work with financial services companies. Zein El Hassan is the 19th partner on the KPMG Law Australia team. He will report to the team's head Stuart Fuller. El ...

MetLife Australia wins tech award

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... for projects. The ACORD award comes on the back of MetLife's re-release of its e-claims platform in August. The first super fund to sign up was Statewide Super, allowing its 140,000 members to lodge and track insurance claims digitally. MetLife is ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... area. Emerging markets, direct lending When asked about emerging markets exposure, the chief investment officer said the super fund was looking to allocate to an Asian debt mandate to invest in general Asian debt. He added UniSuper already has exposure ...