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Super's purpose under further scrutiny

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
The immediate need for a definition of superannuation to be enshrined in federal legislation is becoming clear as more ideas are floated about how to best use the savings pool. Western Australia Senator Chris Back has proposed that super could be used ...

CalPERS chief executive retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
The largest public pension fund in the US is searching for a new chief executive after Anne Stausboll announced she will retire in June 2016. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) announced overnight that Stausboll will leave ...

Equip to pay super contributions during parental leave

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Equipsuper is prepared to walk the talk when it comes to helping close Australia's gender savings gap, announcing it will pay superannuation guarantee contributions in to its employees' super accounts during paid and unpaid parental leave. The decision ...

Industry fund backs US toll road

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
A co-investment in a US toll road will become an industry superannuation fund's second largest infrastructure exposure after Port Botany and Port Kembla in New South Wales. Cbus has announced an investment of $140 million in the Indiana Toll Road (ITR) ...

Australians putting off retirement planning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Nearly a third of the population aged 18 to 64 consider retirement too far away to plan for, according to a Roy Morgan survey of 50,000 people. This lack of planning and engagement in the process is likely to contribute to less-than-optimum superannuation ...

Report highlights sea-change in asset owner operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Large institutions are reshaping the way they manage their assets, preferring fewer, but deeper external manager relationships and focussing more on the long-term, according to a BNP Paribas Securities Services report. The report said there was a move ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
By itself the latest update on US inflation shouldn't impede the Fed's path towards policy normalisation. The December numbers are neither here nor there - i.e., it justifies whatever the market's pre-conceived view - four 25 bps hike this year as indicated ...

Equity benchmarks too risky amid volatility: SSGA

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
State Street Global Advisors has urged investors to ignore benchmark weights in favour of a truly active approach amid recent and likely on-going market volatility. In the company's active Australian equities Annual Review and Outlook 2015/2016, SSGA's ...

Economic experts still defensive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
A panel of economic experts has told Morningstar that financial markets may have been overreacting to volatility in the Chinese sharemarket, overplaying risks to respective economies. The discussion earlier this month also said Australia's economic ...

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Port of Brisbane has been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension ...