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The challenging nature of ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... six million people die a year from tobacco-related illness," Payne said. Despite this, the majority of Australia's super funds are still invested in tobacco - an estimated $10 billion in total. "Tobacco is also included in the Dow Jones Sustainability ...

Citi appoints government affairs head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
Citi is welcoming a new head of government affairs. James Bond joins Citi from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, where he was director external affairs and investment. Prior to that, he was both the president of the Australian Services ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... over maturing Treasury securities at auction, and it anticipates doing so until normalization of the level of the federal funds rate is well under way."...it was more straightforward in the minutes: "Provided that the economy continued to perform about ...

SSGA expands active managed funds business

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
More than four years and $500 million in assets later, the active managed funds business of State Street Global Advisors Australia is gearing up for the next chapter of its growth. The world of active equities is tough business. There are many competitors ...

Korea scopes out Aussie asset management market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... the state of Australia's asset management market and assessing the potential for future business ahead of the Asia Region Funds Passport scheme commencing at the end of 2017. As a partner of the Financial Services Council, the Korean delegation met with ...

Super fund private equity demand growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
Superannuation funds are shunning traditional asset classes and increasingly turning to private equity opportunities, the latest key market insights from law firm MinterEllison show. In the last 12 months superannuation funds have ramped investment ...

Super insurance maintains active pricing: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
About one-fifth of superannuation funds changed insurance rates or cover in the final quarter of 2016, latest Rainmaker research shows. The just-released Superannuation Benchmarking Report details how these super funds changed insurance rates or cover ...

PIMCO fund "Highly Recommended"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... Fund also attracted US $16.7 billion in net new inflows in 2016, outpacing all other actively managed stock and bond mutual funds in the US - according to the Morningstar Direct US Asset Flows Update as at January 2017. PIMCO head of Australia and New ...

Super reforms will drive advice demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... July: The removal of fund-capped contribution limits; The establishment of a new accumulation interest for retail super funds when paying a super lump sum as a result of a commutation authority issued under the transfer balance cap system, and without ...

Fiducian grows advice business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... financial planning business in New South Wales. Fiducian will pay a consideration of $1.15 million, which will lift its funds under advice by an additional $37 million. Fiducian manager of distribution and business development Jai Singh said one financial ...