Volume 10 Number 3

Volume 10 Issue 3

Investment

PETER CHIAPPINELLI | Comments | FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018

Once perceived as misfits for investors, multi-asset class strategies are now used for all sorts of portfolio solutions. Not too long ago, investors, consultants, and advisers in the asset management ... Once ... Read more

The growing importance of the 'E' in ESG

JEREMY TAYLOR , NATHAN COCKRELL | Comments | FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018

Environmental regulation is escalating Stringent regulations that focus on environmental disclosures, limits, and targets have grown over the past two decades. In early 2017, over 1,400 climate laws ... Read more

Taking advantage of the fear and uncertainty

DAVID EISWERT | Comments | FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018

Global markets are certainly showing plenty of fear and uncertainty right now, as the raging bull narrative has turned back to one of an aging and fading bull. One primary reason relates to concerns ... Read more

Sequencing risk

ACCURIUM * | Comments | FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018

A key investment risk affecting a client's retirement portfolio relates to the order in which they receive returns. These investment returns, good or bad, have more impact at some points in a client's ... A ... Read more

Perspectives of leading Australian investors in hedge funds

ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION | Comments | FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018

One of AIMA Australia's key goals is to facilitate and develop closer ties to the investment community, both retail and institutional. In order to facilitate this, the AIMA Australia investor advisory ... One ... Read more

Australian private debt (Part one)

BOB SAHOTA | Comments | FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018

The Australian private debt market is not a new market and has existed for decades. The market consists of several broad categories including owner-occupied mortgages, investor mortgages, consumer loans ... The ... Read more

Australian private debt (Part Two)

BOB SAHOTA | Comments | FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018

Across the spectrum of Australian private debt, there are a number of sub-sectors that have presented, and continue to present, stronger risk-adjusted returns. These sub-sectors include: Leveraged buyout ... Across ... Read more

ESG integration for investment performance

SUSHEELA PERES DA COSTA | Comments | FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018

The environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of companies is increasingly in the spotlight in a world where information and opinion travel fast. Shareholders have also recognised ESG as ... The ... Read more

A numbers game: The changing face of demographics

CHRIS RANDS | Comments | FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018

In 2011, a dramatic shift occurred throughout the developed world - working age populations began a multi-decade decline. Demographic shifts like this in an economy can have profound effects, including ... In ... Read more

Technology

The three questions defining your superannuation fund's future

LUKE NARDELLA | Comments | FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018

Question 1: Are you the hunter or the hunted? You'd be forgiven for thinking that 2017 was the Australian superannuation sector's very own "annus horribilis." After 26 years and with more than $2 ... Question ... Read more

Mobility as a service

ROSS ISRAEL | Comments | THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018

Each generation appears to think that changes experienced in their time are the most dramatic in history. Everything is said to be "bigger, faster, best/worst, unprecedented" and on it goes. Each ... Read more

Retirement

Innovating financial products for retirement

DAVID ORFORD | Comments | FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018

Ever since the introduction of Australian Life Tables by the Australian Government Actuary in the 1880s, the longevity of Australians has been consistently improving. Fast forward a century to the 1980s ... Ever ... Read more

Administration & Management

Proposed superannuation guarantee amnesty raises opportunities and risks

CHRISTIAN PAKPAHAN , DANIEL BUTLER | Comments | FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018

On 24 May 2018, the Government announced a 12 month superannuation guarantee (SG) amnesty that proposes to give employers an opportunity to rectify past SG non-compliance without penalty. If the Treasury ... On ... Read more

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HESTA announces award finalists ANNABELLE DICKSON \| 12:05PM The $52 billion industry superannuation fund has named the 11 finalists in its inaugural HESTA Impact Awards.	NSW pocketed $10bn from ERS KARREN VERGARA \| 12:02PM More than one million New South Wales residents took advantage of the early release of superannuation scheme, withdrawing $10 billion, new analysis shows.

Optimum Pensions partners with Generation Life KANIKA SOOD David Orford's Optimum Pensions has signed a five-year exclusive agreement with Generation Life to bring its retirement income product to the market.	Crackdown on ERS scams continues ELIZA BAVIN The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has confirmed it is still working with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to crack down on early release of super scams which cost Australians over $6 million.

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