Mark O’Brien, an AMP Capital Investors veteran and until recently its chief investment officer, has left the big manager in pursuit of ambitions outside the investment industry and has been succeeded ...

A serendipitous discovery at the IQ Business Group has led to a web-based solution which should help superannuation trustees work more efficiently. PHILIPPA YELLAND reports. The Trustee Office ...

Care Super has taken out the top gong for a super fund at the annual VFMC Investment Stewardship Awards, with Goldman Sachs coming first in the managers’ section and La Trobe Financial Services first ...

With the backing of Mark Carnegie, research houses SuperRatings and Lonsec have joined to form a unique company straddling superannuation and investment analysis. Former Suncorp satellite Tyndall ...

The competitive group life market for super funds is set to become even more competitive this year following Dai-Ichi Life Insurance’s friendly takeover bid for Tower Australia. In keeping with the ...

Fears the China property market is generating a major asset bubble are not warranted, according to leading economists in China, who said massive housing demand in the country will sustain its ...

Defining agents as every commercial participant in the super industry – including trustees, funds managers, asset consultants and the media – speakers explained how their actions put investors’ ...

Catholic Super’s incoming head of sustainability, who has recently been hired from a global role with Mercer in London, will design and implement a whole-of-fund sustainable investment program for the ...

Some of the largest pension and sovereign funds in the world, including AustralianSuper, gathered in late October in Hong Kong for the annual Pacific Pension Institute roundtable. GREG BRIGHT reports ...

Australia’s biggest industry superannuation fund has appointed a sustainable investment expert from Goldman Sachs to focus on corporate governance standards in the companies it invests in. (more…) ...

The $6 billion NSW Local Government Super (LGS) plans to manage an international equities portfolio internally from next month, using a systematic enhanced indexing methodology that may eventually ...

The New Zealand government could create a single $40 billion fund under a proposal mooted in its inaugural ‘Investment Statement’ published last week. HESTA Super Fund took out the top investment ...