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Former Challenger subsidiary chief joins SMSF fintech

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... professional of the caliber of Tracy to our organisation." "Tracy brings with her an exceptional amount of expertise and industry insight having successfully overseen the sale and subsequent integration of Bendzulla Actuarial into Challenger and the ...

HNWI financial advice demand falls: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
New research from Investment Trends found there are less high-net-wealth investors using financial advisers compared to five years ago. The use of financial advice among high-net-worth investors (HNWI) has fallen to a five-year low, according to the ...

Nikko AM enters Australian LBO market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... Leslie said: "In an increasingly challenging market environment, we will continue to support our clients with innovative, insight driven, and relevant investment opportunities." "As we establish and develop a track record for the Australian LBO Loan ...

Former industry fund CIO leaves Vanguard after seven months

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
The former chief investment officer of Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund has parted ways with Vanguard Australia after just seven months. Mary McLaughlin commenced as senior investment specialist at Vanguard in May, with the fund manager ...

Industry fund eyes younger membership with board appointment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... methods for process improvement, employing both data analytics and digital tools to enhance customer experience and gain insight into core business drivers for the company. REI Super chair Claire Higgins said the fund is fortunate to have someone of ...

AMP Capital launches NZ index products

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
New Zealand retail investors will now have access to three passively-managed AMP Capital funds. The new funds are the All Country Global Shares Index Fund, the NZ Shares Index Fund and the Hedged Global Fixed Interest Index Fund. They track the MSCI ...

Industry super fund adapts new life insurance model

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... Australia. "Last financial year we paid over 5000 claims, which is nearly 20 claims every working day. This gives us a deep insight into the experiences of our 1.4 million insured members enabling us to design an insurance offering based on their very ...

ME Bank recruits for people experience

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
A former general manager at Microsoft is the new group executive, people experience at ME Bank. The industry super fund-owned bank recently appointed Melanie Simpson, who will sit on the executive team and manage ME Bank's people and culture functions. ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... to cover. To be sure, the US economy is growing strong and company earnings are too. According to Factset's 'Earnings Insight' report (released last Friday), "For Q3 2017 (with 98% of the companies in the S&P 500 reporting actual results for the quarter) ...

The age of algorithmic advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... adviser's role will start to change from merely transacting with clients, to doing more "human-centred work" - and that insight into human beings is the skill advisers will need to be better at, he said.