2020 Super fund salary survey
UniSuper’s investment chief John Pearce is the highest-paid executive among Australia’s industry superannuation funds and is one of 10 people to take home a pay packet of more than $1 million.
ASIC makes product design a priority
ASIC superannuation executive leader, Jane Eccleston warned superannuation trustees to step up efforts to understand, measure and deliver good outcomes for members.
Paul Wilmott: Juggling mathematics and small business
I chat with Paul on derivative pricing, the application of mathematics within financial services and the implications for society due to AI.
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Photo Gallery: Investment Operations Conference 2020
The Investment Operations Conference took place at the Fullerton Hotel, Sydney on Tuesday 11th February, 2020.
Million-dollar payouts
As the industry consolidates into bigger funds overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars, the average remuneration packages will also likely climb.
Base salaries set to climb as regulation bites
Base salaries for superannuation fund executives will likely increase because of new rules that will likely constrain short-term bonus payouts, according to Michael Moses, a principal in Mercer’s remuneration consulting practice.
Disaster recovery: the right support at the right time
With so many Australians impacted by the devastating bushfires this summer, AIA Australia wants to ensure that we’re ready to support our customers when they need us most. We know we have many customers who live in fire affected areas and already have claims with us. In addition to this, we recognise we are likely to receive more claims in coming weeks and months.
Long-term investors using short-term strategies
There is a contradiction in the way that many long-horizon asset owners behave. On one hand, they are increasingly concerned about the externalities imposed on wider society by the companies they own. But on the other, they tend to ignore the social costs imposed by the short-horizon strategies that they employ such as momentum and tracking error constraints. The transmission mechanism for this social cost is via asset mispricing, which leads to capital misallocation and incentives for CEOs to focus on short-term share price maximisation.
APRA will struggle to include Choice super products in heatmap
There is skepticism that the prudential regulator will succeed in benchmarking the performance of Choice products, particularly as it is struggling to collect meaningful and comparable data across the 90 or so MySuper products.
Super funds too quick to sell retail property
Asset owners looking to offload their retail assets amid a downturn in consumer spending could be forgoing strong investment returns.
Vinesh Jha: The craft of mining alternative data
I chat with Vinesh, ceo at ExtractAlpha, on the research behind alternative data, stock selection techniques and the expertise required to differentiate signal from noise.
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Future Fund CEO to head up IFM Investors
David Neal has resigned from Australia’s $212 billion sovereign wealth fund to join the global asset manager.
