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UHNWs see net zero as business opportunity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... found 86% see their private capital as essential to address climate change. They also want to see action from government though, with 79% of the opinion that governments' pandemic stimulus packages should prioritise the transition to a low carbon ...

Verve Super taps investors for $2.6m raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
The start-up superannuation fund has raised $2.6 million, with Carol Schwartz coming on board as one of the investors. Verve said the raise attracted female investors including philanthropist and AI Media chair Deanne Weir, human rights lawyer Dalit ...

ASIC urged to act on common ownership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
... done an investigation on the proxy advisers policies of the super funds [and] their voting of proxy shares. I do think though each super fund will be very different in the way it does it, and very few actually hand all of their voting powers to a single ...

Tim Wilson grills NAB on super ownership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
... rebuked Wilson's line of questioning, saying he does not have concerns about the amount of influence super funds have. Though he acknowledged that as the super guarantee rises to 12%, funds will own a greater portion of the ASX. "They will be taking ...

MLC bolsters private equity team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
MLC Asset Management has made three appointments to its New York-based private equity team. Laura Hotaling joined as portfolio manager from New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS) where she was chief risk officer. She previously spent eight ...

Praemium rejigs executive team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
The platform has given its chief commercial officer responsibility of business strategy and promoted its head of distribution to the executive leadership team. Praemium's chief commercial officer Mat Walker will now oversee business strategy in addition ...

Pain ahead for super trustees on unlisted valuations

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
... AIST conference last week, said the regulator found many concerning practices by trustees on revaluation of assets even though they acted "proactively" in the volatility. "More specifically, [there were] no predefined revaluation triggers and weak or ...

Funds will have to guide members on SRM, LTRM

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... renaming it to short-term risk measure) and making members look at just LTRM may not be a good idea. "I would then say, though, if you've got someone who is going to need most of the money in the next few years, then the short-term is risk measure ...

Time to weed out dud funds: Delaney

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... you giving your members a better outcome than just investing passively?" He took issue with the way YFYS is testing funds though, because the performance test takes into account what strategy is in place - but not whether that strategy is the right strategy. ...

Why are YFYS test scores a secret?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
At the AIST's annual investment conference, APRA general manager superannuation Katrina Ellis was asked if the regulator is keen on transparency, why it didn't publish the quantum by which MySuper products passed or failed the inaugural YFYS ...