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QSuper names investments chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... farewells Brad Holzberger. Charles Woodhouse has been promoted to investments chief after serving as the QSuper's head of funds management since 2009. During that period, he also held the roles of acting chief and deputy investment officer. Woodhouse ...

REI Super names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... leadership over the past decade and a half," she said. Under Smith's watch, REI Super grew from a fund with $400 million in funds under management to $1.6 billion. Coysh spent four years at Cbus, joining as executive manager of employer experience ...

First State Super, VicSuper merger talks progress

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... now signed a Binding Heads of Agreement to merge, with leadership roles and a 2020 deadline confirmed. In an update, the funds said a successful merger would see the creation of a $120 billion fund serving more than 1.1 million members by 30 June 2020. ...

YouTube fundie called out by FCA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... criticised Neil Woodford who famously issued a tearful YouTube apology to investors whose money was frozen in one of his funds. Woodford Investment Management suspended trading in its Woodford Equity Income Fund at the start of June, citing liquidity ...

Portfolio manager caught out faking returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... Swapnil Rege was employed by a company referred to as Fund Adviser which provided investment advisory services to private funds including a USD $376 million fund where Rege was one of the many portfolio managers. Rege mispriced the investments of a private ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
Mercer has named the top-performing Australian equities funds for the 2019 financial year. Mercer's latest Investment Survey found Martin Currie's Australia Real Income strategy delivered 18.8% in the year to June 2019. BlackRock Equitised Long ...

Advice associations weigh in on member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... both took exception to the bill's implementation deadline, with the FPA noting it was "somewhat unreasonable for super funds to be required to write to affected members on or before August 1." "It may be reasonable for the Government to consider ...

Tasplan recruits new chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... to deliver excellent returns for our members." Prior to Mercer, Stuart held roles with HSBC Asset Management, Victorian Funds Management Corporation and Prudential Portfolio Managers. He was also the investment manager for the British Gas pension funds ...

Industry bodies react to APRA review

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... panel's recommendations. This included publishing super funds' performance benchmarks; taking action on underperforming funds; the development of a superannuation performance tool; updating reporting standards; and collecting product-level data ...

CFS hires executive manager of insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... the managing director of superannuation. Elkins is also a director and former chair of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and has served on numerous Financial Services Council committees. Elkins will replace Paul Howes, who moved on ...