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UK pension funds to be hit hard over negligence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
The UK Government wants to up the ante on pension fund bosses who endanger worker's retirement savings. Under a new proposal from the UK Government, bosses would face up to seven years in jail for endangering the retirement savings of their workers ...

Rice Warner predicts super fee-hike

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... Productivity Commission recommendations aimed to curb the number of individual superannuation accounts will impact super funds to the tune of $350 million. The researcher believes the number of superannuation accounts in Australia will drop by 26% as ...

CFSGAM expands US footprint with senior hires

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... region's major infrastructure assets. Diloshini Seneviratne was appointed to the board which oversees some of CFSGAM's funds. Seneviratne was previously responsible for developing, building and launching the infrastructure portfolio of CaLSTRS. ...

Hermes inks local ESG partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... 10% of every ASX200 company. Hermes is one of the world's largest provider of stewardship services with $706 billion in funds under advice through its EOS business. ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson said: "This landmark agreement will see two of the ...

Pinnacle boutique opens LIT offer

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... grade debt, starting with 30 positions. The target total return is between eight and 10%. It will invest in four wholesale funds managed by Metrics: the MCP secured private debt fund (SPDF), MCP secured private debt fund II (SPDF II), MCP real estate ...

Super fund chief executive to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
The chief executive of one of Australia's largest corporate superannuation funds is retiring and the fund is hunting for a replacement. Doug Carmichael is slated to retire in June end after nine years of leading Commonwealth Bank Group Super. The ...

Paradice Investments sales lead takes new role

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... acts as a responsible entity for all its boutiques but ownership structures vary. All four boutiques work with equities: OC Funds Management is an Aussie small caps manager; Ralton works with Australian equity managed accounts; Veritum Asset Management ...

NZ Super makes transparency play

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... of domestic listed equities it held were actively managed by either its in-house team or through mandates held by Devon Funds and Mint Asset Management. The move falls in line with Australia's Future Fund, which releases its voting record annually through ...

Slow but steady: SMSF growth continues

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
The flow of retirement savings from superannuation funds to the self-managed sector continues. But is the river drying up? Rainmaker analysis of APRA data shows total net flows between APRA-regulated super funds and self-managed super funds has steadily ...

Australian Unity names equity origination head

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... both domestic and offshore. Watson was previously the head of distribution for Centuria Capital Group's unlisted property funds division for four years, helping raising more than $500 million of equity. His real estate experience includes senior roles ...