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Do your cyber-attack drills: Funds warned

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... scenarios as damning as possible, because if you look around at what's happened to some other companies, they've been pretty detrimental." Financial Standard is the official media partner of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees' ...

Future-proofing the super system: Rees

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... be compulsory, Rees said the common argument is that people would rather put that money into a home. "But the stats are pretty clear, and if you use APRA's data, the long term returns for superannuation are in the order of 7-8% and the long term ...

ASX shifts slightly on Credit Suisse, First Republic

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... bailouts of First Republic Bank and Credit Suisse, but has since remained unsteady. This mornings slight jump - 0.3% - was pretty modest, CommSec senior economist Ryan Felsman told Financial Standard. Following on from the slight increase, the ASX remained ...

First Super awards ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... Bill Watson told FS Sustainability. "Whether it's Dominos and underpayment of workers, 7-11, Qantas contracting out pretty much all of its services, the big retailers - they've all been involved in one type or another of labour controversies. ...

Super on PPL a drop in the ocean

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2023
... women also retire with dignity is a drop in the ocean. "We wouldn't even feel the bump," explained Dunnin. "It's pretty horrendous that we're having an argument over whether we should spend an extra $200 million each year on some budget item. ...

Gurner, Qualitas close second BTR fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023
... the second quarter of the year. "When we first launched the GQ platform in 2021, we set out to lead the sector with some pretty ambitious growth plans," Gurner chief executive Tim Gurner said. "We are now well ahead of our forecasts in terms of pipeline ...

Ethical, sustainable ETFs top $9bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2023
... review of all our PDSs and marketing to make sure it's consistent with those principle, and I'm happy to say it pretty much was," Liddell said. "What ASIC didn't do, of course, is that it hasn't done what Europe and Japan has done, which ...

Bonds are back: GSFM

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2023
... doesn't validate that view at the moment. "If we look at the labor market in the US, the unemployment rate is still pretty close to a fifty-year low. I can remember when man walked on the moon, and that was the last time (until the last year or two) ...

Managed accounts growth to continue: State Street

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023
... following the use of managed accounts. "Managed accounts are giving advisers roughly 15 hours plus back in their week, which is pretty huge," Schaffer said. In terms of suitable clients, Schaffer highlighted a third of advisers are using managed accounts ...

More alpha gains through ops

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022
... asset owners, it's not always a reality, given the growing complexity of operations. Says Leaper: "Funds are doing a pretty good job with operations. Yet being better than 'good' and achieving 'best practice' - so they can find operational ...