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NZ manager launches QROPS scheme

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
A New Zealand asset manager now offers a qualified recognised overseas pension scheme for Australian and NZ migrants. Lifetime Asset Management's Garrison Bridge Superannuation Scheme has been added to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs' QROPS list and ...

Ageing population presents investment potential

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
An increasing demographic shift across Asia presents a significant investment opportunity according to the latest insights from AMP Capital. The new white paper published by AMP Capital associate director Christopher Deves looks at the economies of ...

UK corporate pension deficit swells

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
The combined pension deficit of the UK's 350 largest listed companies widened £50 billion ($87 billion) in August, the increase on record. According to data from Mercer, the accounting deficit of defined benefit pension schemes for FTSE 350 companies ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... Following the fund's November commitment to halve its carbon footprint by 2020, PGGM, the fund manager behind the pension scheme, has mandated UBS Asset Management to develop a methodology to quantify the positive impacts global companies have on the ...

ATO resource targets illegal pension schemes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has launched a new initiative aimed at educating advisers and pre-retirees about the potential pitfalls of retirement planning schemes. Super Scheme Smart - which forms part of the ATO's broader focus on tax avoidance ...

Well over $3m in super savings needed

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
... similar comfort to what politicians and public servants enjoy on an income of $100,000 from a defined benefits pension scheme. Bewley used life expectancy tables from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and ASIC's Moneysmart capital guaranteed indicator ...

UK pensions not fussed about in-housing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
While large Australian institutions such as AustralianSuper and HOSTPLUS are increasingly turning to in-housing of their investment capabilities, the UK pensions industry remains fairly comfortable farming out management of its assets to third-party ...

Standard Life Investments appoints ESG head

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Standard Life Investments has promoted one of its senior fund managers to head of stewardship and ESG investment with Guy Jubb retiring at the end of March. Euan Stirling joined Standard Life Investments' as a UK equity analyst in 2001 from Schroder ...

UK adds SMSF after slashing Australian pension schemes

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has added an Australian pension scheme to its qualified recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) list after slashing the number of Aussie funds from 1,600 to one on July 1. From early September, the P Wyns ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...