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Big super locking Aussies out of homes: Wilson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... been grilling the nation's superannuation funds as part of the economics committee's ongoing review into the big banks and other financial institutions in his role of chair. Wilson believes the scrutiny is an important part of ensuring Australia's ...

Pension fund members incur post-Brexit fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... as the UK did not leave the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA). The SEPA allows for bank transfers free of charge between member countries. However, since Brexit was finalised on 1 January 2021, some Eurozone banks have instead treated transactions from ...

Challenger to buy industry-fund-owned bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... term it is likely to be high quality fixed income investments), rather than through relying on Home Loans like the major banks do." He noted the annuity market, where Challenger dominates, is less than 5% of the $1 trillion term deposit market that Catholic ...

ISA ramps up campaign against super reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... about changes that could erode their savings. ISA pointed to the fact that fees and profits are excluded from the revamped member's best financial interest test, which reverses the onus of proof if fund expenditure or investments are challenged by regulators. ...

Super SA to close growth option

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... Funds SA. "Due to the unprecedented easing of monetary policy by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and global central banks, yields for short-term fixed interest securities (defensive assets) have fallen towards zero per cent," the fund said. "This ...

Robeco launches credit income fund in Australia

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... in USD-denominated bonds, 45% in EUR-denominated bonds and 3% in GBP- denominated bonds. The top holdings include Spanish banks Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Banco De Sabadell and Bankia, Irish banks AIB Group and Bank of Ireland and French insurance ...

Aware Super finds airport returns despite COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Aware Super's investment in Bankstown Airport, in western Sydney, has proved resilient through COVID-19 - thanks in part to an investment in an air wing for NSW Police. Earlier this month, NSW Police opened its aviation support branch - also known as ...

ASX200 advance climate targets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... 83% of ASX200 energy companies, up from 36% in 2018, 50% of utilities up from 25%, 83% of transport up from 50% and 71% of banks up from 29%. Of the 60 companies that reported against the TCFD, 32 did scenario analysis (up from 18) with the common scenario ...

Superhero sets eyes on managed accounts

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... Winters said, and uses an "omnibus account" structure and regulatory regime (RG133 and RG148) typically imposed upon big banks and global custodians. "It's a single structure that holds all of the assets pooled, but we're holding it through a ...

Chief economist update: RBA negative on negative interest rate policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... down to negative back in 2014 and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) target rate had been below zero since 2016. Both central banks have not taken interest rates deeper into the negative to counteract the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their ...