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UniSuper hires from Janus Henderson

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... with them. UniSuper's balanced investment option returned 9.9% for the year, as it made big gains from individual stocks: BHP was up 52.2% while ASX and Transurban were up more than 30%.

UniSuper scolds Aussie equity fundies

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... for the year. UniSuper's balanced investment option returned 9.9% for the year, as it made big gains from individual stocks: BHP was up 52.2% while ASX and Transurban were up more than 30%. However, the fund was disappointed with the underperformance ...

Super sector needs to end culture war

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... companies their super funds is invested in. Citing the example that the ACTU-backed Maritime Union has put "undue pressure" on BHP and BlueScope through a super fund, the repeated government comments that this was a "dangerous development" and that super ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... managers in the second quarter, he said. Leading managers were overweight in the following sectors and stocks in FY19: iron ore (BHP and Rio Tinto), gold (Newcrest Mining and Evolution Mining), information technology (Altium and Afterpay) and healthcare ...

Australia lags on dividends

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... modest 3.8% during the first quarter. The biggest contributors to this growth were Woodside which resumed dividend payouts, BHP which gave out a special dividend and Commonwealth Bank which kept the dividend flat during the period. Australia's lagging ...

Super funds to dominate ASX: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... Including SMSFs, this figure jumps to one third. The top 10 most popular companies among super funds are: CSL, NAB, Westpac, ANZ, BHP, CBA, Westfarmers, Macquarie Group, Woolworths and Telstra. Executive director of research Alex Dunnin said as super ...

Pension fund giant cuts BHP

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
BHP Group is among several companies a $106 billion international pension fund has excluded from its investment universe as it aims to rid its portfolio of coal. Norway's Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP) took the decision to divest almost $520,000 ...

Colonial acquisition cost CBA shareholders $53bn: Merlon

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... Need for greater shareholder protections in Australia Carlisle says the management decisions from big companies like CBA and BHP can affect the retirement outcomes for millions of Australians. The note states: "We advocate for stronger shareholder protections ...

SMSF darlings revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... be slowing, with SMSF investors showing renewed interest in key constituents of the ASX20 and ASX50 stocks," CommSec said. BHP trades rose 12% while RIO trades rose 6% - and more than half (57%) of these were buys. The total traded value for the major ...

Ausbil launches dividend income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... index," Price said. "The active income last year was higher led by some off-market buybacks by companies such as RIO and then BHP. We expect large levels of special dividends and buybacks to continue into next year as companies distribute additional ...