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Managed funds back on the menu for investors

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
Domestic market volatility has driven investors back to professional fund managers, according to Investment Trends Research. Based on a survey of 9,793 Australian investors, Investment Trends' 2015 Investor Product Needs Report notes that although unlisted ...

Bfinance hires director for APAC expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
Institutional investment consultant bfinance has appointed a director for its first Asia-Pacific office in Sydney. Frithjof van Zyp joins bfinance from institutional investment data firm eVestment, where he was head of data services. Prior to that ...

T. Rowe Price names Japan country head

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
T. Rowe Price has named Naoyuki Honda as its new country head for Japan. A thirty-year veteran of the financial services and asset management industries, Honda will join the firm in early May after a filing with Japanese regulators. He will lead T. ...

State Street SHE Index aimed at capitalising on diversity

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched the SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF which is aimed at tracking the performance of US companies with female leaders. Operating under the ticker SHE, the index, which is currently only available to ...

Super flagged to repair Australia's budget

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has put forward five options for repairing the federal budget balance by 2018, two of which centre around superannuation taxes. CEDA's first budget repair option includes a progressive super ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
Australia retirement and retirement intentions The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) survey (conducted 2014-15) on retirement and retirement intentions show that Australians intend to work longer than ever before. The survey - which started a few ...

Riskier glidepaths could be one retirement answer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
A global retirement solutions executive says a stable, or even climbing, asset allocation glidepath in post-retirement may be a more sensible approach for target-date superannuation funds. J.P. Morgan Asset Management global head of retirement solutions ...

CommInsure appoints life product and strategy head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
CommInsure has appointed former senior executive, Frank Crapis, as head of life product and strategy. Crapis will replace Sally Phillips who was appointed to the role just four months earlier. CommInsure confirmed that the changes have been in motion ...

Lump sum withdrawals to fall to 4% by 2025: Rice Warner

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
Only 10% of retirement assets were taken as a full lump sum in 2013-14 according to research by Rice Warner, destabilising the view that many retirees rapidly spend their super and fall back on a full Age Pension. Used to support its 2016 pre-budget ...

QIC equities head joins Silicon Valley firm

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
QIC's head of equities has left the group to join a Silicon Valley-based firm co-founded by a former QIC chief strategist. Rob Wood was head of equities at QIC from 2009 to 2015; prior to that, he was head of world equities at Suncorp. He has also held ...