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Super CIOs say short-termism endemic

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... on future investment strategies. A panel of fund executives told the 2016 Australian Superannuation Investment (ASI) conference that regardless of the "lower for longer" environment there needs to be heavy lifting in unacceptable short-term attitudes. ...

Capital stewards create value on Main Street

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... Lazard Asset Management Australia chief executive, Rob Prugue, told the Australian Superannuation Investment (ASI) conference in Cairns that a fund's involvement in capital stewardship may come down to timing and market occurrences. "Capital stewardship ...

Super investment poorly communicated

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... communicating its investment story to wider Australia. Opening the 2016 Australian Superannuation Investment (ASI) conference in Cairns today, Garcia said the industry could also do a better job in communicating the effort expelled to consistently deliver ...

Capital not enough to prevent failures

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... industry must accept and prepare for failures in the banking industry. Speaking at the Actuaries Institute Banking Conference Byres noted that while a steady accumulation of capital was sensible for Australian authorised deposit taking institutions (ADIs) ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... "case for an increase in the federal funds rate" arrived in the form of a resurgence in US consumer confidence. The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence jumped to a reading of 101.1 in August, up from 96.7 in the previous month and significantly ...

MySuper insurance widely misunderstood

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... problems down the track, according to a panel discussion at the recent Workplace Super Specialists Australia (WSSA) annual conference. During a panel session entitled 'Group Insurance in MySuper - Are there better solutions for members?', representatives ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... assets". They're joined by billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller. He told his audience at the Sohn Investment Conference to "get out of the stock market" and that gold "remains our largest currency allocation." The thing is, we've heard this "sell ...

International pension research network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... includes Australia's Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) as a founding member, was launched at a conference in Paris in June. To be known as the International Network for Pensions, Ageing and Retirement Research (INPARR), the ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... strategy. He was in Victoria recently to present UBS's research into ESG metrics at the Centre of Investor Education conference. Bertocci explained that once investors have metrics with which to measure ESG impact effectively, they have an extra dimension ...

SMSF advisers face demanding year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... Association head of policy Jordan George in his address to delegates at the association's twelfth annual technical conference in Sydney. George told the audience of SMSF specialists that the changes to concessional and non-concessional contribution caps ...