Conexus Financial has partnered with research and consulting firm Chant West to develop the Super Fund Awards. In a first, Chant West is applying its deep industry knowledge and expertise to an awards event. The awards will recognise achievement and excellence in the superannuation industry. “We want the awards to recognise excellence, and also to … Read more
When Media Super switched from ING’s One Path last December to Hanover Insurance Group, it ended a relationship that began in 2008. At the time, One Path was the group insurer for Just Super, which merged with Print Super into Media Super, a $3 billion industry fund that primarily attracts workers in the media and … Read more
Chant West, in partnership with Conexus Financial, publisher of Investment Magazine, will present its first ever superannuation and pension awards in May. Both companies have a common vision of improving retirement income solutions and producing better outcomes for members and in the process calling industry participants to account for their actions. The time has come … Read more
He works at the highest level across several sectors, so what does one of superannuation’s biggest players think of the industry in which he works? Watch Future Fund chair David Gonski discuss the super funds industry with Conexus Financial chief executive, Colin Tate.
All publishers regularly review the relevance of their titles, and all are trying to make sense of the combined effects of the global financial crisis, an advertising recession and the digital revolution. We are not the first and we will not be the last to rationalise our product line-up as a result. But at Conexus … Read more
Self-managed super funds are more likely to contract than expand over the next decade, making them no threat to superannuation funds, says Equipsuper chair and superannuation lawyer at DLA Piper, Andrew Fairley. He believes predictions that numbers will increase dramatically are unfounded. “If I look over the next 10 years, I think we’re going to … Read more
Organisations using legacy platforms will struggle to meet market and regulatory requirements, and should consider an investment book of record, according to one technology provider. “When organisations are still using a legacy platform, they are forced to build and develop satellite systems, all sorts of different systems to try and move with the evolving requirements,” … Read more
The challenge: combine investment data with member-specific details and present the particular information in a way that satisfies the needs of regulators, internal auditors and accountants. Currently, super funds have to collect around 900 data items on a regular basis to satisfy the needs of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). With effect from July, … Read more
A Chinese proverb says “women hold up half the sky” and, while Australia may have been among one of the first nations to implement universal suffrage, glass ceilings can still be a hazard for professional women in this day and age. See what Future Fund chair David Gonski has to say on equal representation on super … Read more
The recent financial crisis shed light on a number of new sources of risk. On the one hand there was the extreme correlation between the real estate mortgage and equity markets, and on the other hand the extreme price sensitivity of all assets to the counterparty and liquidity risks of the financial system with respect … Read more
It might only have $100 million under management, but Perpetual’s Diversified Real Return Fund has a major role to play in the future of the fund manager as it rebounds from recent turmoil. Perpetual’s roller coaster ride is well known in the industry. The $1.2 billion that walked out the door when John Sevior left … Read more
American fund manager William Blair has named its top-three investment themes for 2013, nominating attractive valuations in China, the US domestic housing market and the stabilisation of the European financial sector as the stories to watch. Executives from the Chicago-based firm, which has a 70-plus-year history in investment markets, were in Australia in February to … Read more
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