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Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
UniSuper has crept in to the world's top 100 retirement savings funds, joining four Australian counterparts in the annual list compiled by Pensions & Investments magazine and Towers Watson. The P&I/Towers Watson Global 300 list was launched today with ...

NAB appoints Antares GM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
NAB Asset Management has appointed a new general manager for Antares Equities. Brendan Donohoe has taken on the role having worked at Antares as head of institutional sales since 2012. Prior to that, he was a divisional director at JANA Investment Advisers. ...

The $17trn infra opportunity investors have overlooked

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Super funds that want to increase their allocation to infrastructure assets without compromising their environmental, social and governance criteria should consider an investment in water equities. That's the opinion of Kleinwort Benson Investors, a ...

Member direct investment needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Superannuation fund members should leave their money in a highly diversified option and come back when they retire according to an industry fund chief investment officer. Addressing a member direct investment options forum at an Australian Institute ...

EQT appoints estate planning specialist

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Equity Trustees has appointed an estate planning solicitor to its Sydney offices. Terry Matthews joins EQT from Makinson d'Apice Lawyers. He is a former manager of estate planning for New South Wales at National Australia Trustees, and has also worked ...

Aberdeen launches $700m liquid alternatives fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Aberdeen Asset Management has launched its $700 million Aberdeen Alternative Strategies Fund (AASF). By using what Aberdeen described as an "Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) regulated investment structure," the ...

APRA trustee reforms, definition of independence yet to be finalised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
APRA has released a discussion paper detailing the government's proposals for more independent trustees on super fund boards while conceding the definition of independence is yet to be finalised. The proposed changes to trustee operations have divided ...

Industry funds attack banks on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
Industry Super Australia has launched a series of advertisements putting their case ahead of proposals likely to change the way employer and employee default superannuation funds are selected. Earlier this month federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
A Macquarie executive responsible for setting up the group's global investments division in Canada has left to join a boutique funds management firm. Perth-based NWQ Capital Management has appointed Stuart McClure as managing director. McClure has over ...