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Property spruiker banned for providing unlawful advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... in November 2014 against the group that, by June 2015 had advised over 860 members of the public to establish and switch funds into an SMSF. The judgment observed that Park Trent's business model depended on "persuading relatively unsophisticated investors ...

AMP to launch SMSF trustee course

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... when the federal government was considering Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement (CIPRs) for APRA regulated super funds, SMSF trustees and practitioners have to be careful "we're not being left behind in this discussion on longevity risk." "Does ...

Australian Ethical joins animal welfare initiative

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... Australian Ethical will avoid investment," an Australian Ethical statement said. Australian Ethical has more than $1 billion in funds under management across superannuation and managed funds.

Perpetual sees institutional outflows

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Perpetual has experienced net outflows of around $700 million as a result of institutional investors rebalancing funds away from Australian equities. The fund manager announced that its funds under management as at 30 September 2015 were $28.4 billion ...

Lost super costs young Aussies thousands

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has said the non-payment of super by employers is potentially costing young Australians $14,000 per year in retirement savings. ASFA estimates $2.75 billion each year is being lost through ...

HUB24 refuses IOOF takeover

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... for cash consideration of $2.75 per share. The buyout offer coincided with HUB24's release of its quarterly results. Its funds under administration (FUA) reached $2 billion over the last quarter. Net inflows to its investment and superannuation platform ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... a well-told story. The Future Fund, for instance, has had a great deal of success investing in illiquid assets and hedge funds and now allocates some 14% of its $117 billon in alternatives. It has a further 10% in private equity. "You can't just wake ...

Mandate tide turns towards global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... market. Over a third of the money poured into new mandates last year was in international equities, twice the amount of new funds invested in Australian equities. The latest edition of the Rainmaker Research Mandate Chaser report shows that Australian ...

Government using super as "petri dish": Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... Time earlier in the day. "There is no question that Australian women generally have less savings in their superannuation funds. Because of family commitments, they drop out of the workforce or out of the full-time workforce for a period. I can assure ...

Board gender diversity further scrutinised by ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... companies in which they invest. The guidelines also underpin the voting recommendations ACSI makes to 30 Australian member-funds, who collectively manage over $450 billion in assets on behalf of eight million Australians, as well informing its dialogue ...