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Water risk infiltrates agriculture portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... According to Industry Super Australia, the agriculture industry has attracted more than $1.6 billion from superannuation funds, and caught the eye of major Canadian and US pension funds which have ploughed more than $1 billion to the sector since 2007. ...

Smaller super funds lead Roy Morgan rankings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
An industry super fund with $8.1 billion in funds under management has topped the Roy Morgan Superannuation Satisfaction Report for the seventh month in a row. Tasplan, the industry superfund with 145,000 members, has again topped the Roy Morgan monthly ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... Street. One day short of completing the first four months of 2018, the S&P 500 index is down 0.1% to 2669.91 points, the fed funds rate is up 25 bps to 1.75%, 10-year US bond yields are up 55 bps to 2.96% and the US dollar index is 0.8% lower to a reading ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... included a high-profile adviser who "most likely" told his employee to impersonate his client on phone calls to superannuation funds; and a dealer group owner who thought a letter from Commissioner Hayne was an "invitation" subject to their will to participate. ...

Royal Commission bad for super: Switzer

ALEX BURKE, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... spectacle surrounding the hearings would have deleterious effect on bank stocks. "I know this sounds so gratuitous but our super funds make us accessories before the fact," he said. "We expected great returns and as the biggest owners of banks, collectively ...

First Super to vote against AMP board

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... Super recommended other ACSI members follow suit, with chief executive Bill Watson saying: "We call on other superannuation funds, fund managers and proxy advisers to follow the lead of ACSI and send a message to the industry that the types of practices ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires AGL assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... Capital staff own 70% of the business and the remainder is owned by Challenger under its Fidante Partners multi-boutique funds management platform. It is also the investment consultant to Prime Super. In September 2017, Whitehelm acquired a petroleum ...

MGP responds to Henderson's RC hearing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr outlined that about 70% of Henderson Maxwell's total clients and about 84% of its total funds under advice are managed through its managed accounts vehicle as facilitated by MGP. In response to questioning, Henderson ...

Funds SA fills two senior investment roles

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
A $30 billion public sector fund manager has made two appointments in senior investment roles. Matthew Kempton joined Funds SA in February as director, equities. He left his role as chief investment officer at ESSSuper, where he worked from 2013 until ...

ANU to recalibrate divestment policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... billion investment pool created a media and political storm in 2014 when it became one of the first university investment funds in Australia to divest from the fossil fuels sector. It first announced its divestment strategy in 2013. The divestment saw ...