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Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
Funny that. For all the recent rhetoric and commentaries that central banks have become impotent, financial headlines continue to be dominated by the latest policy movements -- or lack thereof -- and current thoughts of, well, central bankers. Such ...

Emslie departs AIST board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... joint total of 19 years. She is currently the chair at HESTA and a board member of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). "It has been a great privilege to help shape the not-for-profit super system and I'm confident that there is plenty of ...

Trilogy Trust added to Powerwrap platform

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
The Trilogy Monthly Income Trust has been approved for inclusion on the Powerwrap platform through the Smartwrap Investment Account. The trust is designed to provide investors with exposure to the returns available from investments in loans secured ...

Research shows ethical investing at tipping point

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
Six million working Australian's are "highly ethically active" according to research conducted by Australian Ethical, which the asset manager said would lead to mainstream products adopting tighter ESG screens. Australian Ethical predicted that the ...

Fullerton Fund Management appoints head of multi-asset strategies

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
Fullerton Fund Management has appointed Pranay Gupta as head of multi-asset strategies Singapore. Gupta joins Fullerton Fund Management from Lombard Odier and ING Investment Management where he held the position of chief investment officer. Prior to ...

PC releases Efficiency and Competition Review issues paper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
The Productivity Commission has released an issues paper outlining how it will be approaching its latest efficiency and competition review of the superannuation system. The review was commissioned by Treasurer Scott Morrison earlier this year as part ...

KPMG appoints wealth management and compliance director

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
KPMG has appointed Cecilia Storniolo as director of wealth management compliance and conduct. Storniolo joins KPMG from BT Financial where she was a key account manager. Prior to this she worked as a senior policy manager with the Financial Services ...

New insurance industry guidance on its way

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
Superannuation trustees will soon be able to access a document that provides all the information required to fully and better understand their fund's insurance business. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds yesterday, Industry Funds ...

Bravura gives VicSuper tech overhaul

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
VicSuper has laid down an ambition to be "the vanguard of personalised digital service delivery" not only for its 240,000 members, but for the wider superannuation industry. That ambition is being helped by the announcement of a partnership extension ...

Australian non-bank finance shows robust growth

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
A comprehensive study of Asia-Pacific's alternative finance markets sector has shown the Australian market has grown by 320% in 2015. The study conducted by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, the Tsinghua University Graduate School and the ...