Australia has had the highest-rate of growth in pension fund assets among so-called developed countries, says Towers Watson. In the last 10 years superannuation assets have increased 17 per cent per annum in Australia, says the consultants. The country is the world’s fifth-biggest pension fund market with US$1.3 trillion in assets. The size of Australia’s … Read more
The silver aeroplane cuff links he wears were a gift, says Craig Hobart. The Beechcraft Twin Bonanza is not. A photograph of the plane, the last of its type to come out of its factory and used during the Vietnam War, sits on the Tyndall Investment Management Ltd. managing director’s desk. Hobart has flown about … Read more
Bill Shorten will preside over a superannuation roundtable that will meet next month to try and ensure that Australians have enough money to retire. There will be 17 people who will meet on February 16 or 17 for the first of as many as five meetings, says Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of … Read more
Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd., which opened an office in Melbourne in 2008, has lost investment mandates from Asset Super, Mercer and TelstraSuper. John Paul, Asset Super’s chief executive, says as of December, 2011, the $1.6 billion superannuation fund not longer uses Edinburgh-based Martin Currie to help manage $63 million of its money. The mandate … Read more
Industry Funds Management, which manages about US$32 billion, says the U.K.’s Leicestershire County Council Pension Fund has given it a 35 million pound mandate to invest in infrastructure. “This mandate is a significant milestone for IFM,” Christian Seymour, IFM’s head of infrastructure Europe, says in a statement. Melbourne-based IFM manages about US$10 billion in infrastructure … Read more
Blue Sky Alternative Investments Ltd., which raised $6.47 million in an initial public offering, says it hopes its IPO will attract foreign investors to help grow a business that now has $180 million in assets under management. The company, whose headquarters are near Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens, says it hired Debra Goundrey last year to work … Read more
Australia’s money managers aren’t seeking to buy shares in initial public offerings where the risk is significantly higher than investing in cash were the annual return is about 6 per cent, say accountants and advisers HLB Mann Judd Australasian Association. “A 6 per cent cash return versus significant risk; investors are happy to wait” rather … Read more
Australia’s carbon tax will force capital markets and investors to account for climate change costs and risks, says investment consultants Mercer. Two Australian superannuation funds, the $42 billion fund AustralianSuper and the $8.5 billion fund VicSuper, have been surveyed by Mercer in its global survey of fund managers and climate change, says Helga Birgden, head … Read more
An eight month review by a government-appointed panel on default superannuation funds is expected to begin next month. The Productivity Commission will be tasked with designing a process for the selection and ongoing assessment of superannuation funds nominated as default funds. “It seeks to develop transparent and objective criteria against which funds wishing to be … Read more
Bill Shorten says superannuation fund governance is lacking and he will put before parliament legislation to improve it this year. The Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation says he wants fund director fees disclosed and is seeking a better handling of related party transactions. Shorten also wants to bolster trustee board diversity. “The current superfund … Read more
Increased transparency, from the makeup and potential conflicts of boards, to pay and investments is likely to be a theme for the funds that manage about $1.4 trillion in retirement savings, says BT Financial Group. BT says the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is focused on improving governance standards at all superannuation trustees. That means the … Read more
Calastone Ltd., the specialist messaging and translation service for managed funds, says it expects to mirror its U.K. market share of 80 per cent in Australia as the $1.3 trillion in superannuation funds seek electronic rather than manual processes. Founded in March 2007, Calastone is a messaging hub that sits in the middle of buyers … Read more
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