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Industry funds eye SMSF market stronghold

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
Industry funds will shortly take the lead from SMSFs as the sector with the largest assets under management, new KPMG research predicts. KPMG's annual Super Insights report suggests by 2029, industry funds will have more than $2 trillion in assets and ...

Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
Grattan Institute has renewed calls to scrap the Superannuation Guarantee increase as its updated projections show most Australian workers will only cop - at worst - an 11% fall in their income after retiring. The think tank updated its retirement income ...

Australia's wealth takes half trillion hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
Latest research shows Australia lost close to half a trillion dollars in wealth at the end of 2018. According to Roy Morgan's latest Single Source Survey, the gross personal wealth of Australians (including owner-occupied homes) is currently around ...

Technical Services Forum: Keep advisers informed of change

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
Lively discussion broke out during the first Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum for 2019 in Sydney yesterday, with the consensus being financial advisers must be across which products are exempt from means testing. Challenger head ...

Transparency key to ESG advice success

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
Advisers are finding it difficult to provide advice on ethical, environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations due to limited transparency from the $2.7 trillion super industry. Australian Ethical head of client relationships Leah Willis ...

Platform provider wins mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
An ASX-listed platform provider has won a mandate from a wealth firm for a new managed discretionary account service. Managed Accounts Holdings will work with First Point Wealth Management to set up an MDA service. The move comes as First Point Wealth ...

SMSFs outshine industry funds for large balances

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
Industry superannuation fund satisfaction outranks retail funds in all categories, but failed to beat self-managed super funds when it comes to larger balances. This is according to Roy Morgan's latest Superannuation Satisfaction Report which found ...

Kapstream co-founder announces retirement

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
Kapstream co-founder Kumar Palghat has announced his intention to retire from the $14.5 billion fixed income investment house. Palghat was one of PIMCO's first global portfolio managers and later headed the fixed income behemoth's APAC portfolio ...

Boutique fund manager appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
An $11 billion fixed income boutique has appointed a chief executive, as it builds its team. The board of Ardea Investment Management has selected co-founder Stephen Clout as the firm's chief executive. Clout previously headed the portfolio implementation ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
"The Budget is back in the black and Australia is back on track." That's how Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg opened his Budget 2019-20 speech delivered last night. Well, technically we all will have to wait until next fiscal year for the underlying ...