Group insurance needs to move away from total and permanent disability (TPD) lump sum payment to income replacement and rehabilitation, a variety of insurance experts agree. There is a desire, coming from multiple quarters of the industry, do this as it is more sustainable for business and gives a better outcome to members “Rather than … Read more
The Retirements Benefits Fund (RBF) has invested $100 million in the GAM Absolute Return Bond Defensive Fund. The $5 billion Tasmanian public sector fund told Investment Magazine they have been giving a lot of attention to the absolute returns space. Dr Ian Lundy, chief investment officer at RBF, said it’s not an easy space to … Read more
Two of the most prestigious business schools in the world have encouraged the winners of the FEAL fund executive of the year award to focus on values, one’s legacy as a leader and on ways to deploy greater emotional intelligence. Robyn Petrou, chief executive of Energy Super, returned this week from from a course at … Read more
Cbus has appointed an investment specialist, equities, as part of its strategy to tailor mandates with its fund managers, in contrast to the growing trend amongst other sizeable funds to bring investments in house. The $31 billion fund has recruited Kiran Singh to the role. He has experience across both Asia and Australia, most recently … Read more
Local Government Super (LGS) has won SuperRating’s Infinity award for leadership in sustainable and responsible investment for the fourth time. The $9 billion fund now has more than $5 billion of members’ savings in sustainable and responsible investment strategies, including shares, private equity and direct property assets, the largest commitment of any super fund in … Read more
Telstra Super is to explore the potential to create a collective defined contribution scheme as a way of avoiding sequencing risk for its members. Chris Davies, chief executive of Telstra Super, says the $17.5 billion fund has the scale to tailor its own pooled investment vehicle that would smooth investment outcomes. He believes the fund … Read more
The bond portfolio and manager line of the newly merged $70 billion funds management operation of TCorp will place a greater reliance on in-house management. The move will come as part of a general review to find the optimal mix of providers for State Super, TCorp and Safety, Return to Work and Support (SRWS) which … Read more
The Future Fund has paid AustralianSuper $7 million to settle its two year dispute over accusations of improper conduct in the acquisition of a $875 million shareholding in Perth Airport. The acquisition was part of an agreement in 2012 to acquire $2 billion of airport assets from Australian Infrastructure Fund. AustralianSuper claimed that the Future … Read more
BT Funds Management has paid a $20,400 fine to ASIC after it published two misleading claims for BT Super online. In one publication that was live from June 26 to September 18 2014, it claimed BT Super had outperformed industry super funds over five years. ASIC said it was concerned the public would perceive that … Read more
Insurance products are becoming a tool which super funds are using to differentiate themselves and increase their relevance to members, as the concept of providing averaged group insurance cover across a fund’s membership is supplanted by products tailored to the individual. However, the use of big data, or the lack of it, in the creation … Read more
The use of online planning tools with stochastic models has exposed the wide variety of income and investment options individuals can take in retirement. When applied to the rules of thumb commonly used in retirement, these tools are starting to show that many of our hunches and biases for how we should save, spend and … Read more
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