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Industry fund cuts property portfolio emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... Project found more than 60% have little or no climate change strategy. This includes a number of Australian superannuation funds. The report shows 63% of the world's largest pension funds provide very little information on the financial implications ...

Industry fund names member services lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... to joining the industry fund, Scott was a senior training and development specialist at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). She has also held roles with Multiforte Financial Services, Link and Russell Investments. Succeeding ...

Former Westpac adviser ban upheld

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... clients were also left in the disadvantageous position of having a single property as the sole asset in their superannuation funds, leaving them in a precarious position, she said. This may have been in the event the market dropped; the property was ...

Firetrail to launch $305m IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... contingent on IPO whose plans had not been finalised then. Now trending: LICs Firetrail's IPO follow a trend in the funds management industry to launch LICs as managers eye retail money, which can be higher-fee generating as well as stickier than ...

Pension funds feel the heat on climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
A study of the world's 100 largest public pension funds has found more than 60% have little or no climate change strategy. This includes a number of Australian superannuation funds. A new report from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project shows 63% ...

AMP, CBA respond to record class action bid

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... CBA-owned super fund Colonial First State and AMP Super failed to obtain competitive cash interest rates on cash option funds and charged exorbitant fees. Slater and Gordon estimates CFS and AMP members have lost up to $500 million from their super accounts. ...

SMSF cash allocation dips

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
Self-managed superannuation funds are increasingly shifting away from cash to Australian equities, latest SuperConcepts figures show. Cash and short-term deposits dropped from 19.8% to 17.3% in the 12 months to June 2018, according to SuperConcepts' ...

Pengana flags private equity LIT launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... Management to select investments for the soon-to-be ASX-listed investment trust. It invests in alternative assets such as hedge funds, private equity, real estate and infrastructure. Grosvenor was chosen because it has a long track record of investing ...

Unlisted property returns surpass equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... returned 18.7% while local equities delivered 12.9%, according to data from Zenith Investment Partners, MSCI, the Property Funds Association and the Property Council of Australia. Unlisted property also outperformed listed property (9.7%), fixed income ...

Best-in-show super fund list should be 11: WSSA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
Workplace Super Specialists Australia is calling for employer funds to be included in the Productivity Commission's proposed best-in-show list of recommended default superannuation funds. WSSA chief executive Douglas Latto said if the Productivity Commission's ...