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Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) managed the two best-performing MySuper options over the year to March 31. The wealth management and superannuation provider's head of equities Ben Lam explains the "art and science" behind its recently evolved manager ...

Industry funds buoyed by unlisted assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
Industry superannuation funds tend to outperform SMSFs and retail funds thanks to their allocation to unlisted assets and by managing investments internally. An Industry Super Australia analysis found that a member who joined an industry fund in 1996 ...

Hume throws shade at trustee rainy day funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
Senator Jane Hume has slammed superannuation funds for creating rainy day funds that pay for potential penalties because of misconduct. Hume points to a recent trend in which several super funds applied to the courts seeking permission to charge members ...

Retail superannuation funds grilled on member priorities

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
A parliamentary inquiry has again cast doubt over retail superannuation funds' ability to put the best financial interests of members ahead of profit and shareholders. The most recent Standing Committee on Economics into super heard instances of ...

Aware Super, Lendlease execute $200m recapitalisation

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
Aware Super and Lendlease have closed nearly $200 million in recapitalisation loans on assets in Boston and Chicago, working with Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Singapore's OCBC Bank to close the deals. Lendlease and Aware Super - formerly ...

NAB appoints MD for innovation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... appointed the managing director of its $50 million innovation fund, NAB Ventures. Todd Forest was previously chief executive of Clipp, a mobile payments app which allows users to pay a restaurant bill or bar tab with their phone (instead of a card). ...

Instos face debate on EM strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
Institutional investors are facing divided opinion on the merit of an integrated versus a siloed asset strategy to emerging market exposure. While return potentials in emerging markets are high, the volatility of those returns and greater downside risk ...

Converting to convertible bonds

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
With economies on both sides of the Atlantic faced with the dual threats of rising debt and deficits, and stubbornly high unemployment, economists and central bankers are divided as to whether the escalating prices of the late 1970's or a Japanese-style ...

Margin loan changes more than marginal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
Changes are afoot in margin lending with some product providers adding flexibility to their offering while others are clamping down and clipping their client's wings. "There is a fair bit of change happening in the industry and it seems to be happening ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
Further analysis of the labour force data released from the ABS yesterday shows a continuance of the trend of the last year for the full-time employment market to grow significantly while the part-time one has softened considerably. There was net loss ...
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