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Mainstream shelves super admin business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
Mainstream Group Holdings is moving away from providing superannuation administration services to industry and corporate funds to focus instead on growing its public offer super fund. The ASX-listed firm announced today the super admin business will ...

Fidante loses $3.9bn of super fund assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... foundations of our business to drive the next phase of growth. These initiatives support our goal to make annuities a mainstream option in retirement by promoting bottom-up customer demand for our products, and better supporting advisers to write annuities." ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... investment processes to investment solutions". "Sustainable investing is no longer a niche area and has been brought to the mainstream, because of increased access to more granular data, more sophisticated analysis, shifting societal understanding of ...

Responsible investments outperform mainstream

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) shows responsible investment funds outperform most mainstream funds. Using KPMG data, the report shows responsible funds on average deliver higher returns across one, five and 10 year time ...

Magellan renews fund administrator

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
Magellan Asset Management has renewed its fund administration agreement for another five years. Mainstream has provided administration services to Magellan since 2007. Magellan has extended the contract for the next five years with an automatic renewal ...

Insurer to add value via tech

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... into the wellness technology space, given the popularity of wearable technology and wellness technology. "It is now mainstream to measure lifestyle data," Kruip said. Australia has one of the highest rates of tracking lifestyle behaviour, he added, referring ...

Smart beta now mainstream for instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Nearly six in 10 institutional asset owners are now using smart beta strategies in their portfolios, according to a new survey of 178 instos by FTSE Russell. Adoption has doubled what it was five years ago when roughly three in 10 used smart beta. Last ...

Consolidation hits super fund administrators

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... remediation costs associated with a client migration in 2018. Link did not disclose the client affected. Meanwhile, Mainstream Group has announced the wave of consolidation will continue to challenge growth opportunities as its super fund business is ...

Active managers overcharge: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... achieved, then investors will continue to question the fees they are being charged and smart beta strategies... will become mainstream," VanEck director - investments Russell Chesler said. The study modelled how much investors should be paying active ...

OneVue, Mainstream automate cross-platform transfers

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
OneVue and Mainstream Group have partnered with Calastone to help financial advisers seamlessly move assets from one platform to another. The process enables the transfer of beneficial ownership of securities from different custodians without having ...