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Disclosure deadlines present super challenge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
Superannuation has recently received plenty of oxygen in the political atmosphere and fund disclosure is yet another bubble quickly rising. As super funds and regulators work towards several disclosure deadlines in 2017, industry representative groups ...

Top pension funds slide for first time since GFC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Total assets of the 300 largest pension funds worldwide fell for the first time since the beginning of the global financial crisis, according to Willis Towers Watson research. The P&I/Willis Towers Watson global 300 report shows that in 2015, total ...

Act now to ensure super sustainability: Cooper

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
BT Financial Group chief executive Brad Cooper has called on the government to raise the super guarantee to 12% and limit reviews of superannuation policy to once every five years. In a speech at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event in Sydney's Barangaroo ...

ANZ to refund millions in unlawfully charged fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
ANZ must refund $28.8 million to customers after failing to clearly disclose when certain periodical payment fees would apply. The bank discovered it had been charging fees on transactions carried out between accounts held in customers' own names, contrary ...

Mason Stevens delivers new SMA offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Mason Stevens has introduced a retail Australian fixed income separately managed account. The Mason Stevens Fixed Income SMA, which requires a minimum investment of $100,000, was developed in response to increased demand from advisers for direct access ...

Negative rates can generate positive returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
QSuper has positioned about one-fifth of its investment portfolio in fixed income with the view it diversifies against equities and prepares for ongoing global monetary policy shifts. The fund's head of investment strategy, Damian Lillicrap, said QSuper ...

Super CIOs say short-termism endemic

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Superannuation fund chief investment officers warn that endemic short-termism across super and the wider asset management industry will hurt member returns and place massive pressure on future investment strategies. A panel of fund executives told the ...

Capital stewards create value on Main Street

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Australia's superannuation system is estimated to reach more than $9.5 trillion in the next 20 years and the role of super funds as capital stewards will remain large, according to industry professionals. Capital stewardship is continually redefined ...

BNP partner wins $240m global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
A BNP Paribas strategic partner has secured a $240 million global equities super mandate. Carnegie Asset Management, which currently manages over $17 billion worldwide, will provide a high conviction, active global growth equity strategy to VicSuper. ...

Macquarie sells down stake in Atlas Roads

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
Macquarie has completed its selldown of equity in Macquarie Atlas Roads. The group sold 53 million shares in MQA at $5.32 per share to "a range of institutional investors via a bookbuild." As a result of this, Macquarie's stake in the company will now ...