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Proxy advisers, common ownership are focus of Australian pension-fund probe

By James Panichi ( July 20, 2021, 03:10 GMT | Insight) -- A probe into Australia’s pension funds is focusing on the work of proxy advisers and the risk to competition posed by the common ownership of funds by investors, according to documents released recently by the country’s competition watchdog under freedom-of-information laws. The partially redacted documents suggest the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission had been preparing to use international research into the impact of common ownership to assess how the practice may affect the country’s 217 institutional pension funds.A probe into Australia’s pension-fund industry is focusing on the work of proxy advisers and the risk to competition posed by the common ownership of funds by investors, according to documents released recently by the country’s competition watchdog under freedom-of-information laws....

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