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Hastings loses $2.1bn fund mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
Unitholders including large super funds, insurance companies and family offices voted to remove Hastings Funds Management as the portfolio manager for a $2.1 billion infrastructure fund. Following an extraordinary meeting with trustee Gardior, unitholders ...

Big tech leads fintech optimism

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... by large technology firms supplying critical technology to the sector, opening the door to direct competition at a later stage. It said robo-advisers provide an instructive example of incumbents responding to fintech. "Early innovators like Betterment ...

Annuity sales soar as deferred products loom

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
The increasing need for financial advisers to develop income layering strategies for clients has helped drive Colonial First State's lifetime annuity sales up by more than 80% in the last 12 months. Now with $850 million in annuities under administration ...

Industry super fund expands impact investment strategy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2017
... partnership. Christian Super will make an investment in the TriLinc Global Impact Fund (TGIF) - a fund which provides growth-stage loans and trade finance to established small and medium enterprises in developing economies where access to affordable ...

Housing affordability depresses confidence: Westpac

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
Aspiring first home buyers remain fearful of their financial futures with new research showing the housing affordability crisis is impacting financial confidence. The survey, commissioned by Westpac, found the majority of first home buyers are not feeling ...

Numbers and needs of female HNWs set to grow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... targeted service proposition - providing access to business loans, start-up capital, and networking opportunities - at an early stage will find a comparatively lucrative and untapped market," she said. "It would be great to see more private banks support ...

ASIC and CBA discussing potential advice problem

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... notification to ASIC that it may not have sent official insurance cancellation notices to numerous deceased estates. "At this stage, the number of customers impacted is expected to be below 1000," CBA said. "We are currently undertaking a detailed investigation ...

Former politician to chair Equity Trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... philanthropic endeavours. Jeff is strongly positioned to assume the chairmanship of EQT and help drive the company's next stage of growth." Kennett said it is an honour to be invited to chair a company with such a proud history and promising future. ...

Roaring forties produce super member tailwinds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... superannuation returns that ignores the complexity of lifecycle funds does not tell the whole story especially when life stage options, in 2017 at least, have had such a strong year," Fay said. Colonial First State's Tully said: "Ideally, superannuation ...

Crisis emerging in Australian retirement system: HILDA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... raised serious concerns over whether younger generations will have enough superannuation to fund their retirement. "At this stage, the message from the HILDA numbers is that the generations coming up are not going to have quite the same living standards ...