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The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... country's GDP. She said in recent discussions with Prime Super a few core areas came to light - return on investment, risk profile and diversification. "While superannuation is certainly a long-term investment, Australian super funds still have to maintain ...

PROFILE: BlackRock head of corporate governance Pru Bennett

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
On a quiet afternoon in 2000, Pru Bennett was sitting with the three other partners of proxy advisory firm Corporate Governance International, wondering how they were going to jumpstart the business. "Gee," she remembers thinking, "We just need a few ...

TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
TAL and Zurich provide the best value life insurance products, according to Canstar's 2015 Star Ratings Report. The report found that both insurers "couldn't be separated for top honours in providing outstanding value overall across the life insurance ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...

FIIG offers Apple bonds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... wholesale or sophisticated investors. Paton said the bonds offered potential value because of Apple's rock solid credit profile and safe haven status which made them attractive to investors in periods of economic turbulence. "We expect these bonds to ...

Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... consultant for Towers Watson Australia, Paul Newfield, said during the year large funds made significant, and sometimes high-profile changes to the way they invest. "This is in line with a single-minded approach of working hard in 'added-value spaces' ...

S&P launches sinner-free index

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched a sinner-free index that includes the S&P500 companies whose practices adhere to Catholic values, and exclude those who don't. The S&P500 Catholic Values Index is the first Catholic index that uses the S&P500 as a ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... particularly after 2006," Rajan said. "Life cycle funds really started out as target risk funds. [Where] I will choose my risk profile privately and then I'll speak to you if I want to change it. It was a very static approach. "That evolved into target ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The head of a large Australian superannuation fund once complained that a young employee at AAS didn't know anything about the super industry. Little did they know almost a decade later that same employee would be chief executive at AvSuper. Darren ...

Price is wrong for supermarket super

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... most important ways funds can improve member engagement; in fact, 69.1% said they would "trade off their fund's public profile by reducing spending on marketing/advertising." "Super funds need to change their mindset and go beyond advertising and instead ...