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New alternative beta fund answers hedge fund short-comings

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
Amid poor fixed income returns, the need for alternatives in today's portfolios is being recognised by mainstream investors. But high fees, a lack of transparency, little capacity in top performing products and inconsistent returns from skill based ...

FPA awards associate adviser of the year

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... founded with his wife five years ago. The purpose of COH is to send shipping containers full of donated and recycled goods to poor and vulnerable communities around the world. In the five years since the company sent its first container to Vanuatu, it ...

FEATURE: The great race to invest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... perceived negative performance." According to the research, in the period from 2013 to 2015 an estimated 12,000 people noted 'Poor super fund performance' as the reason for establishing an SMSF, down from 28,000 in 2011-2012. While the Australian Taxation ...

Paris adds to the "why nots" for a December lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... added renewed geopolitical concerns to a week already reeling over a host of anxieties: Fed lift-off; global growth slowdown; poor company earnings. Developed and emerging equity markets dropped by 3.0% last week (and this was before the attacks in Paris). ...

Life insurers must address group risk schemes: APRA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... result from some loose or complex wording in definitions. APRA said the life insurance industry continues to address the poor claims experience in relation to group, and more recently the individual and disability income business. "For example, a series ...

Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... in the company but the research found about 11% of ASX100 non-executive directors have no "skin in the game." "This is a poor result and we hope the number begins to improve," Davidson said. "While we don't mandate how many shares an individual director ...

NAB pays $1.7 million in compensation

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... executive Andrew Thorburn said the bank planned to take a "leading role" in addressing the compensation gap for victims of poor financial advice.

ASIC to be handed greater powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... financial regulators. It also said it will review ASIC's enforcement regime to ensure it provides a credible deterrent for poor behaviour and breaches of financial services laws. Consultation has also commenced on an industry-pays funding model. The ...

Government using super as "petri dish": Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
Labor's Jim Chalmers said the federal government sees superannuation as "some kind of petri dish for one ideological experiment after another" during a debate in federal parliament yesterday. The superannuation trustee governance bill won't be debated ...

Board gender diversity further scrutinised by ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has released new governance guidelines which consider recommending against the re-election of directors in companies which perform poorly on board gender diversity. The guideline dealing with ...