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Japanese pension fund continues ESG commitment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... of Wisconsin Investment Board, The Regents of the University of California, as well as Canada's Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. The UK's Universities Superannuation Scheme and Legal and General Investment Management have also come on board, as has PGGM ...

PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... distribution team and the marketing team are siloed but making sure you've got the right links and alignment is so important." The plan for the next few years, Bouch explains, will be more of the same: "We're getting a lot of traction with global equities ...

UniSuper develops personalised retirement benchmark

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
UniSuper has developed a custom retirement adequacy index to gain a better understanding of how members are tracking towards their retirement goals. While superannuation funds have traditionally relied on the ASFA retirement standard to benchmark how ...

Rate cut would do little to help economy: WAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... hopefully we do. Although the problem with opening the fiscal gate of course is where do we stop, we didn't stop with this plan so where do we go with a fiscal plan? "That's the problem and you sort of feel as though this is going to end in disaster ...

Henderson insto flows turn positive

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... The dislocation caused by the UK referendum result demonstrates the importance of continuing to diversify our business. Our plan is to stay close to our clients, stay vigilant on costs and stay true to our strategy. Outstanding investment management ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
AOFM to buy back short-dated bonds The commonwealth government is restructuring part its bond portfolio debt by offering to buy-back short-dated Treasury Bonds and swap them into other durations. The Australian Office of Financial Management said this ...

GBST director resigns in board renewal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Global fintech firm GBST has announced the resignation of a long-term board director. Kim Sundell was a non-executive director on GBST's board since 2001. He has been a managing director of Sydney-based private investment firm Crown Financial and was ...

Retirement system needs work: Actuaries

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... due to dementia, financial abuse of some kind, or poor decision making," Dr Asher said. The first study came from actuaries Plan For Life and was sponsored by the Actuaries Institute. It compiled data supplied by 15 large super funds, accounting for ...

ATO resource targets illegal pension schemes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has launched a new initiative aimed at educating advisers and pre-retirees about the potential pitfalls of retirement planning schemes. Super Scheme Smart - which forms part of the ATO's broader focus on tax avoidance ...

Super platform goes for gold

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... said: "We are excited we can now offer this solution to a wider range of Australian investors through a retail superannuation plan. Physical gold bullion, when approached in the right way, is an essential holding for investors seeking stable positive ...