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Super funds not future ready: Mercer

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Fund trustees and executives must start thinking about the future and take ownership of what their funds can control to ensure long-term growth and sustainability. Discussing Mercer's 2020 Super Fund Executive Report - Change or be Changed, Mercer managing ...

BTFG working to improve culture, ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... we have to get ethics and behaviour right so we can shape and lift the culture across the advice industry," Spiers said. "Not only will the program support our advisers, but importantly it will help to lift consumer trust in the value of advice and their ...

Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Quantitative analysis can play a role in bottom-up active management despite its detractors, according to Robeco Boston Partners senior analyst Daniel Farren. Speaking to Financial Standard, Farren referenced the "three circles" philosophy Boston Partners ...

VicSuper launches ESG member option

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... now with our Socially Conscious option, our members can invest in alignment with their social and environmental values and not pay any extra to do it." The Socially Conscious option has a 57.3% allocation to growth assets, with an allowance for ranges ...

Review life insurance ahead of super reforms: BT

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... salary sacrificing, having access to this option will allow employees to fund insurance using pre-tax dollars, when they are not able to salary sacrifice. As salary sacrifice arrangements must be agreed to by the employee and employer, this can sometimes ...

Value of advice still unclear: IOOF

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... of mind. A whitepaper from IOOF found the benefits of advice must outweigh the cost in order for clients to value it with not everyone needing it to produce tangible financial benefits. "Simply put, clients value advice provided it meets a particular ...

ASIC launches LIF instrument

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... warning advisers against inappropriately switching clients into new policies prior to this commencement date where this is not in their clients' best interests," Kell said, noting a post-implementation review will commence in 2021. The instrument is ...

Education key in combatting elder financial abuse

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... caller ID in an attempt to legitimise their call - a form of impersonation known as "spoofing". She said ATO outbound calls do not project numbers on caller ID.

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... yesterday) eased growing concerns that tomorrow's National Accounts would show that the Australian economy weakened sharply - if not outright contracted -- in the first quarter of this year. Yeah, 'twas good. Company gross operating profits increased ...

Actuaries warn against one size fits all retirement products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... members' requirements. "There should be scope for the policy approach to be reviewed as the product landscape evolves. It should not be compulsory to offer a particular type of retirement income product until we see how the market develops," Actuaries ...