Peter Siapikoudis will join Frontier as senior consultant from March 2016 and will lead the firm’s infrastructure research. Siapikoudis is well known in institutional investment circles, and particularly within the infrastructure space, as a former senior executive at Hastings Funds Management, where he was chief executive and portfolio manager of The Infrastructure Fund (TIF) and … Read more
The ambitions and provisions of the Paris Agreement are clear, as is its future impact on returns. Investors responding to growing and changing risks can contribute to stabilising both the climate and capital markets in the coming decades. And as Jane Ambachtsheer writes, the ball is now in the court of the world’s fiduciaries – … Read more
VicSuper’s investment team says its adoption of integrated reporting has allowed it to take a holistic view of performance, giving it a better understanding of risks and opportunities across the fund. While the main purpose of integrated reporting is communicating total performance to members, the strategy has enabled the team at the $15 billion fund … Read more
The need for intermediaries to innovate to bring scale was a common theme running through institutional investors’ presentations at the inaugural Impact Investment Summit in Sydney during the closing days of October. The Impact Investment Summit in Sydney brought together more than 80 international and domestic speakers, including entrepreneurs backed by Bill Gates, George Soros and Ebay … Read more
Global economic factors such as interest rates and the Australian dollar will be particularly influential in shaping the outlook for superannuation funds over the coming year, according to Kinetic Super. Paul Kessell, chief investment officer of the $3 billion fund, made the forecasts at Kinetic Super’s Global Predictions 2016 session this week. The panel he … Read more
Being small is an advantage when it comes to investment operations, according to Christian Super. Emma Jonceski, senior investment analyst at Christian Super, said the fund had four clear advantages due to its size. These were: a focus on prioritisation; using indicators instead of checking every detail of fund manager and custodian data; harnessing the … Read more
LGsuper is to be renamed as LGIAsuper from February 2016. The $9.50 billion fund for current and former Queensland local government employees and their spouses hopes the move will bring greater clarity to the brand, eliminating any confusion in the market with other funds and organisations. LGIA stands for Local Government Investment Australia, and while … Read more
Ian Lundy, chief investment officer at RBF, has moved the Tasmanian super fund to a more conservative standing, focusing on operational efficiencies to improve performance. That said, some distinctive quirks remain. Last year Tasmania had three super funds – now it has two, following the completion of the merger between Tasplan and Quadrant on November 30, 2015. The … Read more
In March 2014 at the Conference of Major Super Funds (CMSF) on the Gold Coast, David Gonski, the chair of ANZ Bank and Coca Cola Amatil and a member of numerous other boards, gave a highly influential speech to a full house of industry fund representatives on what good governance looks like. He gave a … Read more
Some of the foremost experts on good board governance met at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) offices in Melbourne answered six question aimed at teasing out best practice. Who is responsible for board culture? How do you build it, and fix it if it goes bad? The discussion broadly agreed that the chairman … Read more
Investment Magazine asked leading figures for their thoughts on how digitisation of information for members, providers and super funds will change the business of running superannuation funds in 2016. Damian Moloney, chief executive, Frontier Advisors spoke of the trend to what he calls “retailisation”, where members have a better digital interface with their fund and … Read more
If you keep significant facts hidden, then suddenly make them public it is going to generate big interest. This is what happened when APRA forced the disclosure of the remuneration paid to chief executives, chief investment officers and chairs of APRA-regulated superannuation funds. Consequently, Investment Magazine published its first-ever salary survey in February and created … Read more
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