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Industry Super Australia attacks Future Fund concept

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... modelled retirement savings from age 30 for about 40 years. Comparing the Future Fund with top quartile performing funds is fair, according to ISA, given it would compete directly with funds subject to a strong quality filter. "It should be compared ...

Managed accounts not immune to Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... the fee for no service scandals," she said. "The new expectation is that ongoing fee recipients must provide customers with fair value and service in exchange for the fee."

NSW adviser banned for 25 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
The Federal Court has handed down a 25-year ban to a New South Wales financial adviser and wound up two companies related to him following an ASIC investigation. Starting in 2008, Graeme Walter Miller advised SMSFs and other clients of CFS Private Wealth ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... Its forecasts are based on the latest available information at hand when it gazed into its crystal ball last year. To be fair, you, I and Irene and "economic experts" were seeing the same thing last year - 12 full months of wines and roses. That time ...

No-deal Brexit sparks mixed reaction: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
Financial Standard's latest survey shows the financial services sector is grappling with the effects the upcoming Brexit deal will have on the industry. On the back of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's historic defeat of her proposed exit strategy ...

Labor reforms to increase welfare dependency

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Labor's proposed franking credit reforms will substantially impact the income of more than one million Australians, forcing them to seek welfare. In an address yesterday, Alliance for a Fairer Retirement System chair Deborah Ralston said the vast majority ...

Vale John Bogle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... completely changed the way we invest," Buckley said. "We are honored to continue his legacy of giving every investor 'a fair shake.'" After leading the merger of Wellington Management Company - where Bogle had worked since he was 22 - with Boston ...

IOOF, ANZ deal not in best interests of members: Morningstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... being separately sold to Zurich, is independent of IOOF's acquisition of the P&I business." Morningstar has maintained its fair value estimate for IOOF which currently sits at $5 a share. Prior to the regulatory action taken by APRA, the estimate was ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
A retiree body that was set up before the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built shutters its doors this year - in a clear sign of the times. The Superannuated Commonwealth Officers' Association, established in 1923, had 50,000 members at its peak. But ...

Superannuation reforms splits opinion: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... Commission's 31 recommendations aiming to improve the superannuation system. Asked if the final report's recommendations were fair and reasonable, some readers supported the proposals while an equal number disagreed with it. The Productivity ...