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Kinetic Super hires head of product

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... Joining the $3 billion fund's customer experience team as head of product is Amanda Ralph. Her role will include adding "an extra dimension" to Kinetic Super's current offering by implementing new solutions and products that will make super more relevant ...

Most life insurance consumers open to genetic testing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
A majority of consumers would accept genetic testing for detecting life-threatening conditions as part of their risk assessments for life insurance, research found. A recent survey of 134 insurance employees and their personal contacts by global life ...

SelectingSuper rejects claim small funds should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... the more important counter-question is why do much larger funds not perform as well as these boutique funds despite their extra resources? Using arbitary fee benchmarks of say 1.3% to challenge a super fund's value proposition is meanwhile a blunt instrument ...

FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
Custodians are a vital organ for super funds and asset managers. Darren Snyder explores the trillion-dollar industry. The $2.6 trillion Australian custody market has been highly active during the past 18 months and continues to be watched as several ...

Capital Group chairman passes away

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
James Rothenberg, the chairman of active investment management giant Capital Group, has died at the age of 69. Rothenberg, who recently celebrated 45 years with the company, suffered a heart attack on 21 July. He served in a variety of leadership positions ...

Super available on the Apple watch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... requests," Mackley said. "We know we're going to have to continually evolve and re-write our online software because of the extra online functionality in what people want to do." Mackley said Acurity Version 15.0 creates efficiency for administrators ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Asian hedge fund manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
What Greece has started, China's finishing. To be sure, the tragi-comedy that is Greece is far from over, not with crunch time moments ever so foreverly moved - 23 February was the first "this is it moment" for Athens, that became 24 Feb, that became ...

Class expands in the SMSF cloud

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
Processes in administering self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) that previously took a couple of days to complete can now be triggered with the push of a button. Cloud-based solution, Class Super, has launched a suite of application programming ...

AustralianSuper to pay early insurance to terminally ill

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... AustralianSuper head of insurance, Richard Weatherhead, said the super fund wanted to make sure members are not forced to endure any extra stress and trauma in what is an already difficult period. "This will go some small way towards making a member's ...