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Legalsuper finds savings in manager reshuffle

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Industry super fund legalsuper has replaced a number of high profile fund managers in its investment manager line-up. Perennial (cash and enhanced cash), Colonial First State (global credit), Integrity (Australian equities), Platinum (overseas equities) ...

Advisers need to educate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Speaking at the XY Adviser Event in Sydney, Association of Financial Advisers 2014 adviser of the year Eleanor Dartnall explained that client education leads to client retention. Describing her "epiphany" that led her from "managing" clients to "actually ...

Centuria acquires ATP building

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... Centuria full ownership of the building, after it acquired an initial 50% in December 2013. "The property's strong leasing profile offers investors long-term income security with low leasing risk," Centuria chief executive of unlisted property funds ...

NGS Super tool can help members move to SMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
NGS Super has developed a tool to help members consider whether they should set up a self-managed super fund (SMSF). The SMSF Profiler was developed as a response to the "significant volume of information in the marketplace on SMSFs which is often biased ...

PROFILE: Findex chief executive Spiro Paule

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
You do not go from running a team of six to 3,000 and become Australia's largest financial advice company in the space of 15 years without a solid business strategy. Yet for Findex chief executive Spiro Paule, a self-confessed entrepreneur, the strategy ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... likelihood. The release of inflation data in Australia on Wednesday would be an important influence on that. "A few high profile US companies beat expectations as well overnight boosting sentiment, so combine that with crude oil and iron ore back in ...

Signs that churning is on the wane

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... discontinuance rates move in four-to-five-year cycles, and that "rates are influenced by economic conditions and the demographic profile of a life company's in-force book. "Older policyholders are more likely to discontinue or reduce cover as premiums ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... Peter Whish-Wilson said that the hearing is "not just to name and shame" bank executives. "It is a way of raising the profile of the issue. The hearing puts pressure on them because everything said there is on public record and is reported by the media," ...

Invesco launches multi-asset targeted return fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... Demand for the Invesco Global Targeted Returns strategy is strong because investors are seeking a more certain return profile as well as genuine diversification in a volatile, low yielding world." The Invesco Global Targeted Returns strategy launched ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
"I love the fact that Melbourne has lots of immigrants and great, multicultural suburbs," she says, comparing it to the quiet suburb in Durban, South Africa, where she spent most of her childhood and early years of her adult life. A computer programmer ...