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Spring FG to launch digital advice platform

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... specialist My Prosperity. Users will be able to consolidate in one place bank accounts, credit cards and loans, shares, managed funds and superannuation; regardless of the product provider or financial institution behind each asset. It also provides ...

Qantas Super chief executive to retire

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... concerted and coordinated drive to increase member engagement." Under her tenure, Qantas Super was also named first of 47 funds for its risk-adjusted investment returns for the default option for the last financial year. She added: "Jane is a rare leader ...

Super funds clash on board independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
Both retail and industry superannuation funds have mixed responses to a federal government proposal that would see an increase of independent directors on fund boards. BT Financial Group believes increasing the number of independent directors will create ...

Industry super warns against uniform laws

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... The most successful superannuation operations would be hit hardest by the federal government's planned changes, industry funds warn. But the government says millions of retirees are expected to benefit from proposed new laws to improve the way superannuation ...

Sherwin principal faces court for SMSF fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... and liquidation in February 2013, along with other companies of which Sherwin was a director, including Reacroft, Astor Funds and Blue Diamond Investments. All the companies collapsed owing more than $30 million to clients of Sherwin Financial Planners. ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Industry superannuation funds may deploy up to $15 billion additional capital over the next five years after Australia joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Industry Super Australia (ISA) chair, Peter Collins, said activities of the ...

SG Hiscock ICE fund added to Asgard

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... franchise companies listed on the ASX that deliver robust earnings growth. The fund was launched in 2006, has $200 million in funds under management and is distributed by Equity Trustees. Portfolio manager, Callum Burns, said the addition reflects growing ...

High-risk pursuits may undermine super funds' solvency

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... "good progress" on hiring. The median estimate of all 17 FOMC officials' quarterly projections for the benchmark federal funds rate implied two rate rises in 2015..." This is where the Fed finds itself among the Greeks. It's doing a Sissyphus - the Greek ...

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... returns, not asset classes. Only 10% disagreed about this statement. The report surveyed 705 pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, pension consultants and fund buyers with total assets under management of US$26.8 trillion in 29 jurisdictions ...