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J.P. Morgan appoints head of Australia relationships

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has appointed a head of Australia strategic relationships for the funds business. Mark Carlile will be in charge of creating and implementing a business strategy, as well as building strategic relationships with the major ...

Industry funds must learn from banks: Equip

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
Industry funds must learn from banks on areas such as customer relations, branding and diversifying their offerings beyond super if they are to access retail members and build their member bases, according to Geoff Brooks, executive officer of strategic ...

UK star manager announces launch date for new fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... retail platform Hargreaves Lansdown and a A£3.6 billion ($6.5 billion) mandate from wealth manager St James's Place. The funds low fees have also attracted attention in the UK press. Woodford Investment Management chief executive Craig Newman said the ...

NAB and ABS employees arrested for insider trading fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... former employee of NAB obtained a significant amount of the share profits of this criminal activity." He explained that funds of NAB customers were not used as part of the activity and added that the money was used to acquire property, including residential ...

Prime Super will not appoint HIP directors to board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014

Research houses to blame for advice catastrophes: AIOFP

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... said that research houses' conflicts of interest when rating products are one of the reasons behind the failure of some funds. In a submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), the AIOFP said that the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation ...

SuperStream savings 'nowhere near' estimates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... other problems associated with SuperStream. The technological demands, for example, are proving extremely costly to super funds, while a large number of employers are still sending contributions through in paper form. It also revealed some employers ...

FEATURE: Managing SMSF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
Self-managed superannuation funds are synonymous withA growth. As their number surpasses the half a million mark, Laura Millan looks at the opportunities for individual investors and how SMSFs could contribute to the Australian economy. Of all the appealing ...

First transaction takes place on ASX mFund service

MARK SMITH, ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
The first transaction of using the ASX's much-anticipated managed funds settlement service dubbed mFund took place this week, just ahead of its official launch in Sydney today. APN Funds Management and Bell Direct were the first participants. ASX senior ...

Zurich moves on from group insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... small player in the group sector. Rainmaker data shows that Zurich was not serving any of the 200 largest Australia super funds. "We entered the local group life market in 2008, believing there was an opportunity for a specialist niche player to serve ...