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Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... get less super - it perpetuates. Anything that helps address this inequality, I think that is great. It could reduce age pension costs in the future if people have more super." ASFA senior policy adviser Helena Gibson points out that there is support ...

CSC turns 100 years old

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
... 1930. The CSC's predecessor, ComSuper, ran from 1994 to 2015, and managed the closure of the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme (CSS) to new members in 1990 while launching the Public Sector Superannuation (PSS) scheme the same year. The PSS closed to ...

AustralianSuper hires for UK leadership

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... in London and just under 100 in New York, according to an AustralianSuper spokesperson. Australia's largest pension scheme plans to invest $43 billion in the UK and Europe over the next five years and is boosting the number of offshore staff accordingly. ...

Pension scheme, UBS divest energy companies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 DEC 2021
A UK pension scheme and UBS Asset Management have called time on investments in five energy companies that are not working towards a low carbon economy. Nest and UBS AM have sold shares in Exxon Mobil, Imperial Oil, Kepco, Marathon Oil and Power Assets ...

Prime Minister announces reverse mortgage scheme

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... with Spencer Howson, Morrison said the mid-year budget will include a cash access scheme for pensioners. "We've had a pension loan scheme for some time, but this is making it even more attractive by reducing the interest rate," the Prime Minister ...

Link enters UK pension market

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
... from the technology-led solutions and robust, scaled solutions that Link Group brings." In Australia, one in three pension scheme members are supported by Link Group on behalf of its clients. "The pensions administration market in the UK has been under-invested ...

£450bn in inflation-linked UK DB liabilities unmatched

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2021
... specialist income manager, suggests that £450 billion of inflation‐linked liabilities belonging to UK defined benefit pension schemes are unmatched. Alpha's analysis showed that higher inflation risks have created demand for inflation-linked assets ...

$450 super threshold to be scrapped

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... the 2021-22 income year onwards. Trustees will now be able to use their preferred method of calculating exempt current pension income where the fund is fully in the retirement phase for part of the income year but not for the entire income year," Hume ...

AMP Capital appoints chair, deputy for Private Markets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
... to step down following the completion of a scheme of arrangement for a consortium led by KKR and Ontario Teachers' pension fund to take over the business. The appointments are effective November 1 and will see Snowball and Fay continue progressing ...

New investment model for affordable housing proposed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... have been successful overseas. A similar program, she said, has been running in the US for 35 years and is invested in by pension funds. The concept of RTOs is not exceptional either, the RTOs in the boost program would function in the same way as research ...