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ANU to help determine fate of SG increase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... curb already stagnate wages growth. In February this year Grattan's director of household finances, Brendan Coates, said analysis proves the government should abandon the legislated increase. Coates said the trade-off between more superannuation in retirement ...

Regulator clamps down on misleading ESG fund names

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... incentive to use fund names as a way of differentiating new funds. Based on data from the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system approximately 65 funds (excluding unit investment trusts) included the terms ESG, clean, environmental ...

Advice groups criticise rushed legislation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... respect to intra-fund advice was in part as a result of the fact that, at that stage, ASIC had not done any comprehensive analysis of the quality of intra-fund advice." The AFA also questioned the proposed new definition for a significant breach, arguing ...

Queensland funds inch closer to merger

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... better off if the funds came together. "Now that the memorandum of understanding is signed we will embark on detailed analysis and due diligence over the coming months to see if major benefits do emerge. From QSuper's point of view the merger will ...

HESTA appoints GM, internalises investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... head of portfolio design will focus on the top down aspects of the portfolio, including portfolio construction and risk analysis, economic and market research, and strategic tilting. The head of portfolio management will lead internal and implemented ...

Why Phillip Morris gets ESG points

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... look at superficial scores and screens," she said of ESG investing. Bhansali explained without a proper look-through analysis, these superficial screens can turn up results that don't mean much. For example, Wal-Mart owns its own trucks and Amazon ...

ISA takes swipe at Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... pointed to documents released by Treasury which indicated its findings were "broadly consistent with internal Treasury analysis". "The same Treasury documents described Industry Super Australia's criticisms of our retirement incomes research as 'pretty ...

Shape up on climate change risk: APRA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... accurately assess and appropriately price climate change risks. "This needs to ultimately be tackled through scenario analysis, stress testing and disclosure of market-useful information," APRA said. Those that participated in the climate change survey ...

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... led by a reduction in China's GDP growth from 6.0% to 5.6%. You call that a downgrade? Oxford Economics' latest analysis is a downgrade. Oxford sees world GDP growth falling to "nearly zero" in the first half of this year (should the virus infects ...

Super tax concessions out of hand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
Latest analysis of Treasury data shows superannuation tax concessions are growing so large they will soon rival the Age Pension. New Australia Institute analysis shows tax concessions in superannuation are almost as large as the cost of the Age Pension ...