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Social media boosting super fund engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
Superannuation funds are bolstering their commitment to digital engagement, with the use of social media almost doubling since 2015. A recent survey by Willis Towers Watson found that 94% of super funds are increasing their investment in digital technology ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
"You can't make people be confident, I certainly can't. I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink." This was then RBA governor Glenn Stevens' statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on ...

US firm hires QIC analyst in Australian expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
A Silicon Valley-based firm co-founded by a former QIC chief strategist has recruited a new head of quantitative modelling. David Priest joins Jacobi Strategies from QIC, where he was a quantitative strategist. Prior to that, he was a quantitative analyst ...

Former Fidante-aligned boutique targeted by UK regulator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
A former Fidante Partners-aligned boutique and a $94 billion BNY Mellon subsidiary are two of four asset managers accused of breaching UK competition laws. In what is the first case to see the UK's Financial Conduct Authority exercise its competition ...

Manage wealth with authority: Academic

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
The financial services industry needs to be more paternalistic if it's ever going to really help people prepare for retirement, Duke University professor of psychology and behavioral economics Dan Ariely believes. Speaking at the 2017 Association of ...

NAB advice GM departs in wealth restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
NAB's executive general manager of wealth advice has departed in the midst of a restructure of the wealth business. Greg Miller took on the lead role in 2015. Prior to that, he was general manager of MLC Direct and MLC Advice Solutions. He has also ...

Life insurance M&A outlook gloomy: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
Despite the flurry of life insurance business sell offs, a new study found global life insurers are overlooking Australia for superior acquisition opportunities elsewhere in the Asia Pacific. Willis Towers Watson's analysis of merger and acquisitions ...

Government caves to banking Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
The Turnbull Government announced it will establish a royal commission into the alleged misconduct of banks, insurers and superannuation funds. The inquiry will also investigate the regulators' ability to identify and address misconduct, but will not ...

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
There wasn't really anything earth-shattering in US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress overnight where she discussed 'The Current Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy'. Growth is gaining ...

RNY unitholders left unpaid after Aurora scandal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
Many unitholders in the RNY Property Trust have yet to be compensated following the takeover by Aurora Funds Management, whose chief financial officer was terminated after $1 million vanished from a listed Aurora trust last weekend, and ASIC has so ...