Tasplan chair says $23 billion fund right size for now
Tasplan chair Naomi Edwards said the superannuation fund will be busy bedding down the $23 billion merger with MTAA Super but would welcome a new partner if the right fund came along.
Tasplan chair Naomi Edwards said the superannuation fund will be busy bedding down the $23 billion merger with MTAA Super but would welcome a new partner if the right fund came along.
Sovereign wealth funds have upped their investment in bonds and private market assets as the world’s biggest investors move to defend and diversify their portfolios against a weakening economy.
In advocating for the passing of the Protecting Your Super and Putting Members’ Interests First bills, numerous decision-makers and thought leaders external to the industry indicated they didn’t recognise the value provided by default insurance in super.
Australians have long been slugged with high superannuation fees but charges are starting to drop as asset owners bring investment teams in-house, says Frontier’s Fiona Trafford-Walker.
As asset owners grow bigger they are tipped to start buying up listed companies. Yet not everyone is convinced that it’s worth the trouble including the Future Fund.
There has been considerable commentary that the Australian superannuation industry has excessive fees. But that is not quite true, says Mercer’s David Knox.
I chat with Sean, senior quantitative analyst at Mine Super, on the scientific process, uncertainty and the changing relationship between academia and the private sector in Australia.
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Understanding the vagaries of emerging market debt is more important – and simultaneously more challenging – than it has been in the past, a group of asset owners have said.
A “significant number ” of Australian super funds have failed a Chant West performance test ahead of the prudential regulator’s much anticipated results of an appraisal system that weed out the bad performers.
Industry veteran David Smith, a director of HESTA and former AIST president, passed away unexpectedly last Friday.
Twenty years since the organisation’s founding, Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL) continues to empower its members to demonstrate and develop leadership in an industry undergoing rapid transformation.
Two of the United Kingdom’s largest pension funds have launched a guide to cyber risk for asset owners highlighting key cyber dangers asset owners should watch, and rules of engagement with investee companies and reticent asset managers.