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Super ESG options can outperform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
The average ESG investment option offered by Australia's superannuation funds outperformed the average MySuper default product in the 12 months to 30 September. Rainmaker analysis shows 68 super funds currently offer a total of 639 ESG investment options ...

Scrapping LRBAs would be detrimental to investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
A commercial property lender believes banning limited recourse borrowing arrangements in their entirety would be too heavy handed, saying critics often cite residential property spruikers to cast shadows. Thinktank chief executive Jonathan Street said ...

Assistant Treasurer warns super funds to lift engagement game

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... accounts, although improving from a high of 3.1 accounts in 2009. Young super fund members aged between 18 and 25 typically default to new accounts as they move through various casual jobs. This lasts well into members' mid-40s, the Commission said ...

AustralianSuper to cut equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
The $142 billion superannuation fund is trimming stocks in its default option, as it moves from a growth outlook to a more neutral one. Speaking at a members' forum in Sydney last night, AustralianSuper chief investment officer Mark Delaney said ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... the next 10 years, this would free the Government of outlays between $650 million and $1.85 billion in the absence of default group insurance. Separately, Rice Warner analysis found that removing insurance from superannuation would result in a net cost ...

Billionaire investor says markets in late cycle but anything possible

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... firm just started investing the standby fund but it will be "very slowly" as distressed debt bargains dry up in the US. Default rates for US companies have remained below average for nine years, Oaktree found. "In this cycle, there's only been one ...

Perpetual partners with Microsoft

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Perpetual's corporate trust business has launched a data analytics platform for banks and investors to analyse portfolio performance against Australia's $200 billion mortgage market. The Perpetual Business Intelligence Platform includes a newly-launched ...

MetLife scores group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... and evolve with Tasplan and its members. "We understand the value of insurance in superannuation and the importance of default insurance which offers our members value for money protection," he said. "The member experience is critically important to ...

QSuper hunts for new CIO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... two-dimensionally segmented lifecycle investment option which at the policy level, advanced the notion of fiduciary duty in default superannuation, "Pennisi added.

AMP defends charging dead clients

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... "hybrid" category, it said. "It is wrong to say that AMP assumes members are smokers or that it applies a smoker rate by default," AMP said. "Rather, in every scenario, AMP calculates the premiums that it charges to members based on actuarial assessments ...