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Pension assets climb towards $50 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
Global institutional pension fund assets among the 22 largest markets bounced back in 2019 to climb by 15%, reaching US$46.7 trillion. Over the last decade, the fastest growing pension markets in the world have been in Asia and the US - with South Korea's ...

More engagement with custodians needed: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... the most significant trends has been growing demand for data, along with a growing awareness by clients that one size does not fit all," Brown said. "A simple example is how asset valuation from the custodian provides an independent basis for comparing ...

ACCC denies impropriety

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... properly. "I don't know if the meeting occurred. I've read the email. I honestly don't know," Taylor told the court. "I would not ever act with impropriety. I would never ever act inappropriately." Legal teams for the investment banks and ANZ have consistently ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney's last days on the job would have gotten more press were it not for the more pressing concern of the coronavirus. To be sure, there was nothing noteworthy in Carney's final monetary policy committee ...

Surplus may not be as advertised: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... budget policy and institutional reform program director Danielle Wood explained the much touted federal government surplus may not be all it was cracked up to be. Wood focused on an economic outlook from a policy perspective, discussing the fiscal policies ...

Super fund admits its gender pay gap increased

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... Kirstin Hunter said: "We want to be transparent, which is why we published our own gender pay data to walk the talk. We're not perfect, but we're making progress." Meanwhile, to redress the imbalance in women's superannuation balances compared to men's ...

Industry super steps up SG campaign as RBA weighs in

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... Australian and overseas examples where there's been some non-cash increase in benefits that the worker prefers, and it's not quite a full pass through," Ellis said. "Historically, about 80 per cent of the increase in the non-cash benefit tends ...

How to lose a mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... (50%) and a substantial swelling or drying of the assets in the strategy (42%). Surprisingly, institutional investors were not spooked-out by bad press stories on their mandated managers. Unflattering press coverage only had a 37% likelihood of landing ...

Calls for disability insurance reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... community, about future access to affordable DII cover," he said. The KPMG report said individual disability income insurance does not adequately support a policyholder's move back into work in Australia's modern economy and acknowledged increased concerns ...

Chief economist update: Lowe puts Australia on high

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... on Economics on the February 7. One day later, and Lowe would have included the deluge buffeting New South Wales as I type. Not that it would make any difference to the good governor's optimistic outlook. Sure, there'll be a short-term slowing ...