David Hartley, the former chief investment officer of Sunsuper, has been appointed to the board of the $7 billion Australian Catholic Super fund. Hartley brings 35 years’ investment experience to the role, including 10 years at Sunsuper and 12 years at Mercer, where he served as an investment consultant for Australian Catholic Super. He will … Read more
The shortlists for the Conexus Financial large, medium and small Super Funds of the Year have been announced. The lists have been made available ahead of the Conexus Financial Superannuation Awards at the Crown Palladium, Melbourne, on March 3, 2016. Large super funds were defined as those that have more than $10 billion in assets; … Read more
HESTA believes the impact investing market is similar to the early days of the infrastructure sector, and on this basis it has invested in social housing to help develop investable models. As Investment Magazine reported following a roundtable on the issue, there is a growing appetite among super funds for impact investments, but few suitable … Read more
Prime Super has appointed CommInsure as its insurance partner and has also awarded a mandate to multi-asset manager PineBridge. CommInsure was selected as the super funds new group insurer after a competitive tender process, with the partnership to take effect from May 1, 2016. Lachlan Baird, chief executive officer of Prime Super, said the goal … Read more
Vision Super has insourced investment operations over the past 10 months to improve operational efficiencies and leverage direct insights from the investment data captured. In March 2015 the $7.6 billion fund created a “head of investment operations”, followed by an “investment operations analyst” role in September 2015. Vision Super says this has transformed its day-to-day … Read more
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
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