As Treasury releases its discussion paper on regulation of the retirement phase, David Bell and Geoff Warren of The Conexus Institute argue that an affordable trustee-directed mechanism should be facilitated so that all super fund members can receive some retirement guidance.
The federal government is considering introducing a YFYS equivalent package for super funds’ retirement products in a discussion paper released on Monday to ramp up the industry’s commitment to retirement outcomes.
Construction industry super fund Cbus overhauled its executive team structure earlier this year, marking the first major organisational change made by CIO-turned-CEO Kristian Fok. He told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium it was a natural progression and that these days the roles of CEO and CIO are not worlds apart.
Shareholders in ASX-listed Origin Energy have rejected a takeover bid by a consortium led by private equity giants Brookfield and EIG.
Rest has appointed John O’Sullivan as its chief financial officer, after he led the division during the recruitment process.
Western Australian advice Integro Private Wealth has appointed Adam Pontague as a private wealth adviser, aligned with the firm’s continued expansion and heightened demand for private wealth services.
The Guardians of NZ Superannuation, the crown entity that manages the $65 billion NZ Super Fund, has named Paula Steed as acting CEO, moving from her current role as general manager of strategy and shared services.
AMP has appointed Kathleen Bailey-Lord and Anna Leibel as independent non-executive directors to the board.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being promoted by the mining lobby as one of the keys to a net zero economy. But should asset owners and managers be setting much store by what fossil fuel companies say on the matter, and is the campaign backed by science?
Two of Australia’s largest institutional asset owners, AustralianSuper and UniSuper, both claim their major projects to internalise much of their investment management over recent years has paid off. But new research from Morningstar analyst Annika Bradley finds their portfolio composition, staffing and fee profiles make for very different case studies when comparing the pair.
The Australian Government’s re-setting of the country’s relationship with China has been applauded by one of the world’s leading authorities on geopolitics and authoritarian regimes. Stanford University’s Professor Stephen Kotkin says of all the possible outcomes, a “cold war” is the best the West could have been hoped for.
HESTA and AustralianSuper have heeded the government’s call to allocate capital to local housing affordability projects, but Super Housing Partnerships CEO Carolyn Viney is aware she needs to address concerns over lack of scale and pipeline of projects in the nascent asset class before she can convince some of their peers.
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