With the upcoming federal election, profit-to-member funds have found themselves under much scrutiny, despite their assets ...

Challenger is on a mission to help more Australians attain the sense of security and confidence that Defined Benefit members ...

The additional conditions were imposed to address concerns about BUSSQ’s fitness and propriety processes and fund expenditure management after allegations of misconduct within the Construction, ...

Data presented by CoreData to a room full of the most influential super fund chairs, highlighted the impact advisers are ...

For as scared as everyone gets about the prospect of losing their job, it’s remarkable how often the de-commissioned sound relaxed, even pleased, about what’s just happened to them. Tim Hannon, a ...

Mean-variance analysis, despite all of its shortcomings, does offer a few strong points – it is the workhorse of the industry, it offers a tractable outcome and is easy to implement. We sought to ...

That is, however, one of a number of potential strategies that MICHAEL BAILEY, GREG BRIGHT, SIMON MUMME and STEPHEN SHORE discuss with investment decision-makers over the following pages. Interesting ...

Readers of Mark Mobius’s book Passport to Profits will know of the 84 ‘Mobius Rules’ to emerging markets investing, which the investment guru has crafted over 21 years running the asset class for ...

Hedge fund managers will be forced to lower their base fees by as much as 50 per cent in coming months if they plan to attract the capital of superannuation funds, asset consultants Watson Wyatt have ...

There will be bear-market rallies in the near term, but even if markets have bottomed, that does not mean they are going in only one direction from here, according to Mark O’Brien, CIO of AMP Capital ...

With only $20 million under management, some would say Australian equities boutique Bellwether Partners should be reconsidering its future in this environment, however founder Bruce Bell has so far ...

The director of group risk at Industry Fund Services Insurance Broking, Greg Staunton, has left the firm to take a senior position at a major superannuation fund and former client. (more…) The head of ...