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OneVue appoints new Super Services COO from KPMG

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
OneVue's funds administration arm is welcoming a new chief operating officer. Melissa Gomes joins OneVue from KPMG, where she was associate director of superannuation advisory risk consulting. Prior to that, she held three roles at the Harwood Superannuation ...

Govt reforms can tackle super gender gap: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
In the lead up to this year's Federal budget, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is calling on the Government to take action on a worrying statistic that 80% of women won't have enough money upon retirement. ASFA is using its new white ...

CFS partners to create ESG fixed income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Colonial First State has launched a new fund with ESG and impact bond manager Affirmative Investment Management (AIM). The Affirmative Global Bond fund will invest in fixed income and cash assets where both the issuer and issues have passed an ESG and ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
The US Federal Reserve's 1-2 May FOMC meeting was both expected and a non-event - it kept the fed funds rate target at 1.5%-1.75% and more or less cut and pasted the FOMC Statement at its 20-21 March meeting. Well, maybe less, for May's statement was ...

Fund manager names new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
A $15 billion unlisted property fund manager is welcoming its new chair this week. An internal appointment at the Industry Superannuation Property Trust (ISPT) saw Rosemary Hartnett become chair, effective 1 May 2018. She was appointed for a three-year ...

Morningstar creates carbon risk investment tool

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
Investors measuring carbon risk in portfolios have a new tool to score carbon exposure across 30,000 funds globally. Introduction of the Morningstar portfolio Carbon Risk Score aims to move beyond carbon footprinting to provide an assessment of carbon ...

Life insurance regulation needs government backing: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
An overwhelming number of people who work in life insurance believe the industry needs government backing so it can properly regulate. In a survey conducted by DST Systems, a large number of respondents (85%) want to engage with ASIC to strengthen the ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
"My fellow Australians, ask not what your country can do for the Australian dollar, ask what the Australian dollar can do for your country." That's me bastardising John F. Kennedy's inaugural address as the 35th US President back in 1961 (before I was ...

Retirement spending declines faster than believed: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
Spending by retiree couples falls much faster as retirement progresses than traditionally believed, calling for a change in how retirement products are designed. Research from Milliman shows the median Australian retiree couple's spending at 85 years ...

CBA enters APRA EU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
APRA has accepted an Enforceable Undertaking from Commonwealth Bank, having determined the bank's operational risk management framework "worked better on paper than in practice." Releasing the final report of its prudential inquiry into CBA, the regulator ...