Roundtables
Mental health: stay in the green zone
The Federal Government is turning its eye to the economic impact of mental health, making workplace early intervention a hot topic
Alice UribeNovember 14, 2018
EY
Industry View
Impact investing: A force that transforms
Impact investment is disrupting capital allocation and reforming the not-for-profit sector, writes EY's Christopher Thorn.
Christopher ThornDecember 7, 2017
Opinion
Group therapy for group insurance
As the group insurance sector tries to stave off a regulatory revolution, super funds and their providers are looking for ways to evolve.
Simon HoyleMay 5, 2017
Hedge Funds
The case for listed infrastructure
Growing capacity to invest, cheaper valuations than equities and low interest rates were all cited as tail winds for listed infrastructure at an IMCA lunchtime seminar in Sydney on Friday. The key challenge to this rosy picture for the asset class at the seminar was a difference of opinion on how far interest rates would […]
David RowleyJune 1, 2015
Roundtables
The impact of new reporting standards on the operations of funds and their advisers
How are the people responsible for ensuring accurate and timely measurement of financial performance and compliance obligations coping with new APRA requirements? A group of chief financial officers, their advisers and service providers met to discuss the issues. A pdf copy of the discussion “All funds agree that there needs to be more information delivered […]
David RowleyFebruary 4, 2014
Investment Strategy
2014 – the hardest year yet for compliance
Those helping super funds to manage their investment data report an industry groaning under the weight of more compliance than it has ever faced before. Providers say the cost of increased workloads and systems build will be passed back to members, while opportunity costs are being incurred from the holding up of innovation. DST Global […]
David RowleyJanuary 20, 2014
Governance
Cyber crime threat to superannuation
In a bid to protect members’ data and money from hackers, First Super is considering the practicality of completely isolating its member database from the internet. Under its plan, no terminal that can access the master database will be connected or connectible to the internet. This might seem far fetched and some in the industry […]
David RowleyNovember 25, 2013
Post-Retirement
The baby boomer tsunami
Australia has probably the most admired accumulation system in the world, but our system of decumulation is a work in progress. That superannuation funds, politicians and researchers are all talking about change is cause for hope. Indeed such is the level of agreement that the era of easy access to lump sums must end, several […]
David RowleyAugust 19, 2013