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.
David Villa, CIO of the $110 billion State of Wisconsin Investment Board is worried about the outlook for returns. As a result he’s significantly underweight sovereign bonds in favour of cash. But he’s also positioning the organisation to do better analytics for more complicated portfolios, another result of a low return environment. The fund is working on at least five data and technology projects and has hired a chief technology and operations officer.
Innovation is more important than ever given the uncertain and ambiguous times that lie ahead for institutional investors like climate change, political dysfunction and poor returns. “Returns can only come from an ecosystem that works and we need innovation to do this,” said Roger Urwin, global head of investment content, Willis Towers Watson speaking at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Cambridge University.
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