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Investment Strategy

Treasury needs to open up on portfolio disclosure

The Treasury still has much more detail to provide on portfolio disclosure requirements before it can be viewed as workable, according to Unisuper’s head of investment law and compliance. Luke Barrett, who is responding to the Better Regulation and Governance discussion paper from the Treasury, is working with the Law Council of Australia’s superannuation committee […]

David RowleyDecember 9, 2013

Policy and Regulation

MySuper: on time, biding time

First State Super’s chief operating officer Graeme Arnott is concerned at the amount of MySuper regulations that remain unresolved as the launch date approaches. However, he has pledged to take the fund’s MySuper product live on July 1, unlike funds such as Sunsuper, which is delaying the launch of its products to more easily comply […]

David RowleyMay 6, 2013

CIO profiles

Telstra Super loses CIO

The chief investment officer of the $10 billion Telstra Super is understood to have resigned from the fund on Friday to take a senior position at a large Melbourne-based retail funds manager.

Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2009

Investment Strategy

ipac to slash ‘manager redundancy’ in Aus equities portfolio

Multimanager ipac has signalled it won’t allocate to passive managers, but will aim to minimise redundancy among active managers as it nears the implementation stage in the review of its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio.

Staff WriterAugust 17, 2009

Hedge Funds

ipac to slash 'manager redundancy' in Aus equities portfolio

Multimanager ipac has signalled it won’t allocate to passive managers, but will aim to minimise redundancy among active managers as it nears the implementation stage in the review of its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio.

Staff WriterAugust 17, 2009

Investment Strategy

Future Fund takes big step for corporate governance

The Future Fund has made two hires which should dramatically increase its ability to encourage good corporate governance.

Staff WriterJuly 6, 2009

Investment Strategy

Merge and save: sub-$1bn funds’ extra costs revealed

The benefits of scale for large super funds have been quantified in research to be released soon by Deloitte, with the median investment cost for a fund with $10 billion under management around 30 per cent lower than a fund with $1 billion under management.

Staff WriterApril 6, 2009

Investment Strategy

First State Super adds SRI option

The $15 billion First State Super will roll out a new socially responsible investment (SRI) option for members in the second quarter and has appointed two Australian equities managers to provide the product.

Staff WriterMarch 30, 2009