Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 9521 - 9530 of 18128 results for "superannuation"

FSI zeroes in on vertical advice and retirement income

LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... retirement income, putting the issue of longevity risk at the top of the agenda. It stated that "the retirement phase of superannuation is underdeveloped and does not meet the risk management needs of many retirees." It made three policy suggestions ...

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Colonial First State Global Asset Management and Hastings Funds Management. "Australian investors, in particular superannuation funds, have been significant investors in alternative assets, leading to Australian-domiciled managers representing 4.4% of ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... residential mortgages; shifts in the pattern of funding of banks and non-financial corporations; with rapid growth of superannuation assets, Australia has moved from a system dominated by banks to one where financial claims are held by both leveraged ...

Platinum and Iress named 'laggards' on sustainability

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... failed to report on sustainability risk for the last four years, according to a study by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI surveyed the entire ASX 200, applying five levels of reporting - comprehensive, detailed, moderate ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
Super funds should not be shy of demanding full holdings disclosure from alternatives managers in order to meet reporting standards, HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. Sicilia said that if the managers refuse to provide the information ...

Brogden leaves FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... membership to include trustee companies and public trustees." "Ensuring bipartisan support for no significant changes to superannuation and creating a financial services trade agenda for Australia - particularly on the Asian Region Funds Passport a^' ...

HK funds market climbs to A$2.4tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... the second largest Asia-Pacific funds management market ex-Japan. But while Australia's FUM business is driven by superannuation inflows of A$144 billion and non-super inflows estimated at up to another A$100 billion, Hong Kong's inflows are 72% sourced ...

Canadian pension fund buys AMP NZ property portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... an attractive investment destination." Matt Whineray, chief investment officer for the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation, said the sale was timed to take advantage of favourable market conditions. "As a long-term investor, the NZ Super Fund has ...

HOSTPLUS nearly ready for SMSF infra investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
HOSTPLUS' infrastructure investment option for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) is ready to go, pending the approval of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the fund's chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. The option ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... stood alongside Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden and announced that the two wings of superannuation would be burying the hatchet. They wouldn't be agreeing on everything, they stressed, but they would be agreeing on a lot ...