The major asset servicing firms are widening their field of vision and have, for the most part, become front-to-back-office providers, as middle-office outsourcing becomes ubiquitous for big investors and managers. It is a development which has taken place concurrently with
Super funds and other asset owners are adapting to the lingering impact of the pandemic through a big jump in manager searches, according to the latest quarterly report from bfinance. The global fund search and advisory firm has reported a
The world’s major pension systems enjoyed their strongest year, last year, for growth compared to GDP, since 1998. The bad news, of course, is that the average 11.2 per cent rise for many countries this helped by stalling or falling
Index providers should face the same regulatory hurdles as investment managers, a new US legal paper argues. In the US, plain-vanilla indexers are regarded as information ‘publishers’. The University of Virginia School of Law (UVS) report says most index providers
One in five Australian institutional investors has terminated a fund manager where ESG factors have been a “primary or major factor” in the decision, according to a survey by bfinance, the global research and institutional advisory business. A further 41
The switch in focus to retirement incomes, ahead of the introduction of the Retirement Income Covenant, was evident at the annual SMSF Association conference last week. Deborah Ralston said: “Super has been a bit overdone”. Ralston, one of the panellists
If APRA wants to continue to encourage super fund mergers the regulator needs to make some changes to how it goes about its approvals process, according to one chief executive who is going through the process of having a successor
Amundi Asset Management, Europe’s largest fund manager, has launched two strategies to build on its ESG-related offerings, a European equities and US equities fund, both of which focus on companies which are improving their ESG credentials. The three points of
Lifecycle strategies have some problems. One, is how they compare their performance. Two, is how they explain their asset allocation. And three is whether they really fit APRA’s regulatory definition for a MySuper default fund. Alex Dunnin, the executive director
Aware Super is re-thinking its international exposures, particularly relating to China, and how it manages them as it expects they will continue to grow in importance within the $130 billion fund’s overall portfolio. “We haven’t taken any money out [of
The major asset servicing firms are widening their field of vision and have, for the most part, become
Super funds and other asset owners are adapting to the lingering impact of the pandemic through a big
The world’s major pension systems enjoyed their strongest year, last year, for growth compared to GDP, since 1998.
Index providers should face the same regulatory hurdles as investment managers, a new US legal paper argues. In
One in five Australian institutional investors has terminated a fund manager where ESG factors have been a “primary
The switch in focus to retirement incomes, ahead of the introduction of the Retirement Income Covenant, was evident
If APRA wants to continue to encourage super fund mergers the regulator needs to make some changes to
Amundi Asset Management, Europe’s largest fund manager, has launched two strategies to build on its ESG-related offerings, a
Lifecycle strategies have some problems. One, is how they compare their performance. Two, is how they explain their
Aware Super is re-thinking its international exposures, particularly relating to China, and how it manages them as it
