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Super funds lack data for effective retirement assistance: Study

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
Super funds lack crucial data on members' retirement income certainty preferences, hindering effective retirement assistance and compliance with Retirement Income Covenant obligations, research by Capital Preferences and Challenger reveals. The ...

Australian Ethical, Infradebt to launch infrastructure debt fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
Australian Ethical and Mike Cannon-Brookes-backed Infradebt are launching a debt fund to finance renewable energy projects, alongside ventures in social infrastructure and property development. The infrastructure debt fund will provide capital to solar ...

REITs primed for investor cash amid uncertainty

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
After lagging equities the past two years, real estate investment trusts (REITs) are an attractive investment opportunity in 2024, according to Principal Asset Management. In a recent outlook report for listed REITs, Principal Asset Management chief ...

Unlisted asset valuation practices under review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
APRA has confirmed it will conduct a "deep dive review" of funds' exposures to unlisted assets later this year. Combining its policy and supervision priorities for the first time to give regulated entities a better idea of what to expect in the year ...

GCI welcomes investment director

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
Robert Grajczyk will join the private credit funds specialist as investment director of its real estate capital solutions team. Global Credit Investments' (GCI) real estate offering, which launched in October, specialises in delivering credit solutions ...

Bragg outraged over super fund payments to unions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024
Senator Andrew Bragg has slammed industry super funds, accusing them of channelling $40 million to unions and Industry Super Australia (ISA). Scrutinising mandatory disclosures, Bragg pointed out that AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA, Hostplus, TWUSUPER ...

Massive crypto Ponzi scheme unravels

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
A US court and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have slapped charges on three individuals that include an Australian citizen for allegedly perpetrating a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as HyperFund, raising $2.6 billion (US$1.7bn). ...

ME Bank fined $820k for misleading borrowers

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
ME Bank has been fined by the Federal Court after it was found to have provided inaccurate information about its home loans to customers. The matter, prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, followed an investigation and referral ...

Market performance fails to sway retirement confidence: State Street

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
Despite positive investment market performance, Australians' retirement confidence is weakening, according to a State Street Global Advisors survey. Contrary to expectations, State Street's Global Retirement Reality report found that factors like inflation ...

Family offices embrace outsourcing: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024
Family offices across the globe are increasingly outsourcing more functions, new research from Ocorian suggests. The global study, which surveyed 301 senior executives including 50 family office investment managers in November 2023, found a staggering ...