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Global tech wars disrupt $600m market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... real-time and without a signature or physical presence." Besides real-time processing, banks, fund managers and superannuation funds also need to rethink how they manage data. "You won't be able to exist in the world of the future unless your data is ...

TCorp sets green bond record

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... issuance included: 70% to asset managers; 14% to bank balance sheets; 8% to institutions; 5% to trading desks and 3% to hedge funds. Geographically, 82% went to Australia; 7% to Europe; 4% to both the UK and Asia; and 3% to the US. NSW Treasurer Dominic ...

FSC moves to protect retail super from ALP 'tinkering'

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... the FSC outlined the impact of the current franking system, noting more than 2.6 million members of large superannuation funds benefited from franking credit refunds in the 2015-16 financial year. According to responses to an FSC survey of 14 retail ...

Morningstar IM appoints regional chief investment officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... Watcher will lead Morningstar's investment management teams in Australia and oversee the multi-asset and equity managed funds and managed accounts capabilities. He will report to Morningstar IM group president and global chief investment officer Daniel ...

Vale Paul Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... executive at the Superannuation Trust of Australia; the founding managing director and chief executive at two sovereign wealth funds - the Future Fund and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund; and held numerous advisory and investment committee roles ...

Super ESG options can outperform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
The average ESG investment option offered by Australia's superannuation funds outperformed the average MySuper default product in the 12 months to 30 September. Rainmaker analysis shows 68 super funds currently offer a total of 639 ESG investment options ...

Vamos joins embattled insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... compliance and risk frameworks and governance. Vamos is the former chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and was most recently chief executive of ESG research house Regnan. With more than 30 years' experience in ...

Maximising retirement planning in an era of volatility

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... of the risk control element, he said. But one way of looking at annuities, Elsworth said, is similar to actively managed funds whereby some meet objectives but others don't. Some of the benefits of newer retirement products are that they are "insurance-type" ...

Aussie funds among the world's largest asset owners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
Nine Australian funds, including four superannuation funds, have ranked among the world's largest asset owners in a new study. The inaugural Asset Owner 100 study from Willis Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute looked at the world's ...

Hedge funds fall out of favour with instos: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
New EY research shows investors are turning away from hedge funds and looking to private equity assets to uphold their alternatives portfolio. While hedge funds currently have the lion's share (40%) of institutional investors' alternatives portfolios ...