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PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... pursue an actuarial career and joined an insurance company that acted as a consulting actuary for South African pension funds. "The industry was quite male-dominated at the time. Back then I didn't really see it as a challenge. I just accepted it as ...

CalPERS meetings open to members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Australian pension funds, both not-for-profit and retail, may pride themselves on their governance and transparency but US pension fund giant CalPERS shows how far behind they are on world's best practice. CalPERS, the A$375 billion California public ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... Add the ECB's demand to "Competition for purchases may come from banks requiring bonds to meet regulatory rules, pension funds that need to match their liabilities, passive investors who track debt indexes, and other central banks, which buy European ...

US fiduciary reforms will rock pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
US financial advice experts are again warning that proposed requirements to introduce fiduciary obligations on people and entities providing advice will rock the retirement fund sector. The proposal for a fiduciary advice standard is being pushed by ...

Managed accounts work for insto investors too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... structures themselves." Keith said this way of administering alternatives is being adopted by more European and US pension funds as they increasingly run larger proportions of their investments in-house. The bespoke solution is particularly useful for ...

Alternatives sector shaped by regulation, customer demand

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... family offices and high net worth individuals has been supplanted over time by large institutional investors, such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds," he said. "Institutional investors typically have statutory or legal reporting requirements ...

APRA-ABS super surveys to commence Jan 2016

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... definitions". "The ABS will use the data collected under the proposed reporting standards for measuring the contribution of pension funds and the superannuation industry to GDP, to national, sector and industry measures of income, savings and wealth ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Sweden, Denmark and Spain). The Fund's investor base is made up of 49 institutional investors of whom the majority are pension funds and insurance companies from a diversified client base across Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East and North America. ...

UK pension funds required to warn consumers

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to chief executive officers of pension providers to outline government plans to introduce additional protection for retirees wishing to access their defined contribution pension pot from April this ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... world. In response, the industry argued that Australian super funds provide a wider range of benefits than most pension funds globally - and anyway, MySuper hadn't had a chance to work its magic yet. The question of whether MySuper was bringing down ...