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MySuper insurance widely misunderstood

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
A lack of understanding around aspects of insurance within MySuper could lead to big problems down the track, according to a panel discussion at the recent Workplace Super Specialists Australia (WSSA) annual conference. During a panel session entitled ...

Millennials face gender inequality shock

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Globally the number of females represented on financial services boards continues to grow, but a stagnancy at the executive level is disenfranchising millennials as they get to grips with a workplace stuck in its gendered past. Oliver Wyman's 2016 Women ...

Industry fund inks MetLife mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
An industry superannuation fund is ending its partnership with CommInsure after more than a decade, moving its group insurance to MetLife in the New Year. CareSuper will be working with MetLife to reshape the fund's existing insurance offering which ...

Schroders joins exchange-quoted managed fund game

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... quickly and easily adjust exposures as risk premia change; and more direct and efficient access and administration. "The problem with many Australians' portfolios is that with high allocations to a few listed shares and property, people have very high ...

PSK completes acquisition of Sydney firm

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
PSK Financial Services has acquired a Chatswood-based financial planning firm, bringing the group's total funds under advice to $2 billion. Founded more than 20 years' ago, Legan Financial Services is currently responsible for $420 million of funds ...

PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy believes it is within most people's means to better understand and engage with their superannuation. It is this mantra that will help shape the corporate super fund. Every time Michael Clancy steps off a Qantas ...

K2 hurt by Brexit call

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
K2 Asset Management says investor confidence was "the only true fatality" coming out of the Brexit referendum and it is encouraging investors to ride out the ebbs and flows of equity markets. In releasing the firm's FY16 results, chairman Campbell Neal ...

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... I have no doubt it will improve over time, it forces you to take aspects of the technology and apply it to part of the problem. There's absolutely no scenario we can see in mainstream capital markets in the near term where you can apply blockchain to ...

International pension research network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
A new international research network is aiming to promote and advance high-quality social science studies on pensions, ageing and retirement. The network, which includes Australia's Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) as a founding ...

Super funds struggling as member engagement decreases

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... their main super fund; this has fallen to 68.8%. Furthermore, satisfaction declined across all available categories except problem resolution. Investment performance was the most commonly-cited concern. Commenting on the research, CoreData head of Western ...