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Iress loses key wealth executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... director of insights and strategy, following five years at Challenger, where she served as senior manager of retirement income policy for five years. There, she covered a broad range of retirement income issues, including industry policy, superannuation ...

Large-cap equity funds continue underperformance: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... pointing to the effects of dispersion. When stocks tend to move together driven by the same macro drivers such as monetary policy or pandemic, it is difficult to pick the companies that outperform or namely the idiosyncratic risk that fund managers face ...

UniSuper creates lead governance, compliance role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... executive is taking on the newly created role in May. Annika Bradley has been appointed senior manager, investment specialist (policy and advice) at UniSuper. She is currently director, manager research ratings for Asia Pacific at Morningstar, a role ...

Bloom Impact, MSC pulled up for greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... ultimately the closure of an attractive and innovative purpose-driven product," the investment manager said. "The public policy objectives of this investigation remain unclear to us. Investors were made fully aware of each and every asset in the fund. ...

TelstraSuper sweetens parental leave policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... it's important that employers recognise the role they can play in helping improve retirement outcomes for women." The new policy follows the release of companies' mandatory pay gap reports by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) yesterday. According ...

Pay gaps at super funds, fund managers revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... statement on the gap did not reference the actual figures, but did highlight that benefits on offer, like its parental leave policy, are generous. About 67% of lower paying roles are held by women, while just 32% of the highest paying roles are. Finally ...

RBA appoints operations chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... strategic planning capabilities. Woods will work alongside the deputy governor Andrew Hauser and help coordinate between policy, operational and organisational decision-making. She will work closely with governor Michele Bullock as the RBA continues ...

New chair for NZ Super Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... over by ASX-listed Bapcor in 2017, and has been on the Guardians' board since 2016. He is currently chair of its employee policy and remuneration committee. "Our purpose, sustainable investment delivering strong returns for all New Zealanders, sets out ...

Super tax is a 'wealth tax': Taylor

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... Taylor said that an average earning 21-year-old today will pay double in taxes on retirement savings based on this new policy. Together with Labor's other changes in the Quality of Advice Review and non-arm's length expenses (NALE) provision ...

Iress reports $137m loss in 'challenging year'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... strategy, focusing on sustainable earnings, debt and leverage reduction, reinvestment in research and development, and dividend policy. Its goal is to lower its leverage ratio from 2.5x to a target range of 1x to 1.5x over the next year. Iress will consider ...