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Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... session at the FSC Conference, he explained that deciding what to allow the market to take care of is a real philosophical problem and an intellectual debate. "It is very difficult to enforce formal rules against companies and those who work in them," ...

State Street boosts managed fund sales team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has grown its managed fund sales team in Sydney with the appointment of two experienced sales managers. Syvanna Croyden and Amanda Conner will be responsible for in-field sales, reporting to head of managed fund sales ...

Kinetic Super hires head of product

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Industry fund Kinetic Super has created the new role of head of product to expand its management team. Joining the $3 billion fund's customer experience team as head of product is Amanda Ralph. Her role will include adding "an extra dimension" to Kinetic ...

Older workers are the future

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... best answer, he said, lay in making it easier for older people to continue to work. Underscoring the significance of the problem, Kreab managing partner Michael Morgan said $200 billion in potential retirement savings are at stake in encouraging older ...

RBA to deliver nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
Our very own Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will hold its monthly Board meeting today to deliberate on the economy's monetary policy setting. This month looks easy-peasy for the RBA. Keep the official cash rate steady at 2.0% plus a few minor tweaks ...

Financial advice is a boring game

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Approached as a game, financial advice is boring and unappealing for prospective clients, argued PortfolioConstruction Forum chief finology officer Dr. David Lazenby. Speaking at the 2015 Association of Financial Advisers National Roadshow in Sydney ...

Super groups call for women Senate review

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... Superannuation representative groups have backed calls by federal Greens MP Adam Bandt for a Senate inquiry looking at the problem of women's retirement savings. Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia believes ...

Social adviser implores positivity for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... plan, their work and their approach is brilliant and it has (in my professional opinion) a great chance of success. The problem? The apathy of their own profession; all it needed to be successful was a small amount of financial support from a relatively ...

Extend compulsory super to self-employed: ASFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
Nearly 10% of Australia's labour force is self-employed and compulsory superannuation should include at least some of them, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said. "Only a relatively small number of the self-employed have business ...

Member engagement a danger to super savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific Mark Wills said. Wills said that the problem is "when you get to 67 you don't tend to be disengaged." Quoting a study by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...