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Superannuation fund introduces fee changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
A $3.6 billion public offer fund has made a number of fee changes to its superannuation and retirement products. WA Super has ceased charging an $80 exit fee and $80 withdrawal fee for its Retirement Solutions product from 5 November 2018. Members can ...

Chief economist update: Does the Fed lift or cut interest rates just for the heck of it?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
The British Parliament has put a full stop to months of speculation over PM Theresa May's leadership when she emerged victorious - 200 to 117 - over her own party's (the Conservative Party) no confidence motion lodged against her. The Party's ...

Complainants most satisfied with life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
Complaints staff of life insurance companies are the most helpful when it comes to resolving customer disputes, ASIC has found. The regulator documented consumers' complaints journey across financial services and life insurance to find staff of ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
We got chills, they're multiplying... How could something so good turn out to be so bad? It was all very good just as 2017 was turning into 2018... so good, that financial markets were pencilling in exit strategies from the world's major economies ...

Challenger kicks off active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
Challenger's multi-boutique business Fidante Partners has listed its first active ETF as it dips its toes in the exchange-traded fund market. The Ardea Real Outcome Bond Fund (ASX: XARO) has become the first launch out of the ActiveX banner that ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
The "mother of all eco stats" - the US employment report - has been released. But it was neither here nor there and by the looks of it, it didn't make an iota of a difference that the Fed will raise the fed funds rate by another 25 basis points ...

New Bill bolsters retirement income

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
A new Bill backing the viability of retirement income has been tabled before Parliament. Introduced in Parliament on November 29, the Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Supporting Retirement Incomes) Bill 2018 proposes three main measures ...

AFCA receives 500 super complaints in first month

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
Australia's superannuation industry copped more than 500 complaints to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority in the body's first month of operation. AFCA busily began its life last month, with more than 6000 complaints lodged in its first 30 ...

Property fund hires manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
The fund manager of a $450 million office real estate trust has jumped ship to another manager. Grant Nichols who ran the roughly $450 million Australian Unity Office Fund is taking over as the fund manager of the $850 million Centuria Metropolitan ...

Industry fund hires executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
An $11 billion industry superannuation fund has created two new executive executive roles that report directly to the chief executive officer. Local Government Super, which manages superannuation investments for employees in NSW local governments, has ...