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Superannuation

Prime Super awards multi-asset mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
Prime Super has awarded a multi-asset mandate to a $110.5 billion global investment manager.

Prime Super awards insurance mandate to CommInsure

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
Prime Super has appointed CommInsure as its new group insurer following a competitive tender process.

Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
A new agreement between Australia and India that protects expatriates' pension rights is expected to save about $10 million annually for Australian businesses operating in the south Asian country.

Challenger partners Financial Standard for 2016 Technical Services Forum

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
Financial Standard has partnered with investment specialist, Challenger, to launch the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum.

Adviser standards need a tidy

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) believes it is not clear how proposed education and training requirements for financial advisers would apply to robo-advice.

Choice of super fund won't always work: REST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
Offering a choice of superannuation fund to more Australian workers doesn't mean they will exercise the opportunity, nor make any better long-term investment decision.

Super switches estimated at $35 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2016
A sample from more than 100,000 Australians with superannuation shows about one-third were prepared to change their super fund without financial advice during the past three years.

Cbus Royal Commission findings impact industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
Fallout from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption will fuel heated debates on superannuation trustee governance, selection of default super funds, and trade union relationships with industry super funds.

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Global fund manager IFM Investors has sold Australian clean energy company Pacific Hydro to the Chinese-based State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC).

NZ Super Fund invests in affordable housing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
The NZ Super Fund has partnered with two investment managers to develop affordable housing in Auckland.