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Pain ahead for super trustees on unlisted valuations

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
Last year many superannuation funds revalued their unlisted assets during lockdowns. Now APRA says most of their policies were deficient. Super funds took different approaches to the revaluations. For example, at Cbus the board devalued unlisted assets ...

APRA leaves door open for benchmark tweaks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
APRA general manager superannuation Katrina Ellis says the regulator is open to finding better benchmarks, especially for unlisted assets, in both its heatmaps and Your Future, Your Super performance test. Speaking at AIST's annual investment conference ...

Colonial First State reports 22.4% in super returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
Colonial First State's FirstChoice Lifestage returned an average of 22.4% after fees and tax in FY21. The returns are aggregate across FirstChoice's different lifestages, which have different asset allocations. The 1990-1984 lifestage returned ...

Rest hires from AMP

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund as its head of Australian equities, Kiran Singh from Cbus as its head of listed assets, Sonia Bluzmanis from BT as head of equities strategies and Kulwant Singh-Pangly from QSuper as its chief financial off ...

Rest appoints Aussie equities head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... FuturePlus Financial Services. Drew will commence in July in the Sydney office, reporting to the newly appointed head of listed assets Kiran Singh. "During the past six months, we've expanded the internal expertise within Rest investment's team," Rest ...

MLC appoints co-head of private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
MLC Asset Management has appointed a new co-head of private equity, to work alongside New York based Marek Herchel. Kristian Zimmermann was most recently a senior director and head of investment review team at Temasek in Singapore. Prior to this, he ...

Rest hires from Cbus, BT

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
... strengthened its internal investment team with two key appointments. REST appointed Kiran Singh to the role of head of listed assets and Sonia Bluzmanis as head of global equities. Singh joins Rest from Cbus where he was head of equities strategy. Bluzmanis ...

Super fund ups stake in renewable company

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
A $55 billion super fund has upped its stake into renewable energy company Powering Australian Renewables (PowAR) for an undisclosed figure. Hostplus has increased its investments in PowAR, which operates wind and solar generation. The super fund said ...

Hostplus enhances ESG option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
Hostplus is changing its sustainable investment option on the back of growing demand from members who want a more sustainable and principled approach to their investments. The Socially Responsible Investment Balanced option (SRI) now excludes a broader ...

Super industry to branch out: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... be high levels of unlisted assets (direct company ownership, property and infrastructure) and proportionally less listed assets - due to the size of the Australian savings pool relative to the market capitalisation of the tradeable markets." One clear ...