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More growth, and growing pains, for super system

The size of the total super pie should hit $10.2 trillion within 20 years – by 2038 – compared with $2.7 trillion as at June 2018, according to modelling by consulting and actuarial firm Deloitte. In its annual review of the state of the super industry, Deloitte says that the rapid growth should continue despite…

Investor Strategy News | 1st Dec 2019 | More
The link between long-termism and sustainability

Ahead of its launch of a proposed ‘Long-Term Investment Institute’, Martin Currie, the Edinburgh-based international equities house, has produced an interesting paper describing the strong link between long-termism and sustainability. There are differences in the two concepts, too. The paper,  ‘How Asset Owners Can Drive Sustainability’, written by David Sheasby, Martin Currie’s head of stewardship…

Investor Strategy News | 24th Nov 2019 | More
  • The future for alternatives managers

    If you are an alternatives fund manager, forget the old world of America and Europe. The growth is in the new world of Asia and other developing markets. A new study by Preqin, the global investments research house, spells out the future for alternatives managers and their investors. The study says the alternatives sector will…

    Investor Strategy News | 24th Nov 2019 | More
    State Street study on ‘surprising’ small-cap performance

    Smaller companies have disappointed since the global financial crisis, but they have still, slightly, outperformed large companies, at least in Australia. The disappointment comes from what is expected of smaller companies in rising markets. A research note published last week by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), poses the question: “The underperformance of the smaller companies…

    Investor Strategy News | 24th Nov 2019 | More
  • ASX ownership data belies common beliefs

    So much for the Chinese taking over Australian businesses. A special report from Link Group subsidiary Orient Capital says that investments from Chinese sovereign wealth funds and other institutions in ASX 200 companies has halved in the past five years. The latest report, ‘Ownership Trends in Australia’, is an update on a more fulsome version…

    Investor Strategy News | 24th Nov 2019 | More
    NZ Govt pressures ACC to divest fossil fuels

    The NZ government could force the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), New Zealand’s largest institutional investor, to sell down about NZ$1 billion of fossil fuel-related investments, a parliamentary committee concluded last week. In a thinly veiled threat, the ‘Education and Workforce Committee‘ review of the ACC ethical investment policies says the NZ$45 billion (A$42 billion) fund…

    Investor Strategy News | 24th Nov 2019 | More
    Changes in advisor land affecting the whole industry

    by Greg Bright In an important and timely report published last week, Adviser Ratings, a research and advice firm which studies both individual financial advisors and the overall retail advice sector, has confirmed massive changes ahead. The changes will affect the whole super industry. The report, ‘Adviser Musical Chairs Report’, says that total advisor numbers…

    Investor Strategy News | 10th Nov 2019 | More
    …. and the fixer-upper factor: why value isn’t broken

    Value is poised for a major comeback that could “generate some of the best returns in a quarter century”, according to a recent research paper by US quantitative and multi-asset shop, QMA. The study, published last month, says value stocks have been heavily beaten down over the last 18 months despite underlying fundamentals that belie…

    Investor Strategy News | 10th Nov 2019 | More
    The psychology behind cost control

    As most psychologists will say: you should fret only about things which you can influence. For super funds and their managers, that tends to be about costs rather than revenue. The big costs are tax and implementation costs. They may be problematic, but they are at least under your control. According to a new paper…

    Investor Strategy News | 10th Nov 2019 | More
  • Ausbil steps up with ESG action

    Ausbil Investment Management has become the first Australian company to sign the landmark ‘Investor Declaration on Plastic Pollution’. The global declaration pledges to find solutions to the worldwide problem through corporate commitments, programs and policies. MÃ¥ns Carlsson-Sweeny, the head of ESG research at Ausbil, said: “This is an active engagement approach with the major users of plastic…

    Investor Strategy News | 10th Nov 2019 | More
    New trends impacting shareholder class-action recovery

    by Greg Bright In the rapidly developing world of class actions, involving recovery of losses by investors and other affected parties, recent trends are impacting the industry. Here are some of them. With more cases being brought before the courts, in Australia and elsewhere, Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT), a global firm which specialises in shareholder…

    Investor Strategy News | 27th Oct 2019 | More
    BGL ‘incredibly concerned’ over ASIC letter to SMSF trustees

    BGL Corporate Solutions, a leading developer of ASIC corporate compliance and SMSF administration software and systems, is “incredibly concerned” by ASIC’s ‘Are SMSFs for you?’ letter to self-managed fund trustees. In a statement last week, on October 24, Ron Lesh, BGL’s managing director, said: “The document, in our opinion, contains numerous calculation and logic errors….

    Investor Strategy News | 27th Oct 2019 | More
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