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Robo-advice challenged by price expectations

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Robo-advice providers will have to contend with the widespread expectation that their services should be free. This was one of the key findings of recently-released ANZ research, based on survey of 750 ANZ customers in New Zealand. According to the ...

Asteron creates LIF-ready adviser commissions

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Asteron Life has announced a new selection of adviser commission options for its life insurance products. The new options are customised commission rates, new hybrid rates or wholesale rates for fee-for-service models. The customised rate includes a ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Where have all the buyers gone? Two weeks into the new year and they're still MIA. Given recent events, they appear to be drowning - drowning in a sea of oil, that is....and there'll be more gushing out of the grounds soon, out of Iran as Friday's speculations ...

Australian Catholic Superannuation nabs Sunsuper CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
Australian Catholic Superannuation has appointed a new director to its board. David Hartley joins the $7 billion fund from a 10-year stretch as Sunsuper's chief investment officer. Prior to that, he was director, investment consulting at Russell. He ...

PIMCO hires distressed credit specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
PIMCO has hired an executive vice president and portfolio manager focusing on distressed credit strategies. Based in the firm's London office, Lionel Laurant will report to Marc Seidner, managing director and chief investment officer - non-traditional ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
It's well-known that demographic changes will shape investment opportunities and challenges in the future; what's less understood is where the main sources of population growth will arise. A new report by RBC Capital Markets considers the impact of ...

AustralianSuper merges investment options

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
AustralianSuper is closing three investment options and replacing them with two as part of a streamlining process aiming to keep costs low and refocus the fund's investment efforts. The industry super fund will close its Australian Fixed Interest, International ...

Silk joins PRI advisory committee

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has been named as part of the newly created Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Asset Owner Advisory Committee. Silk was the only Australian named as one of 15 inaugural committee members from around the ...

Another Aussie jobs surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
Despite growing worries over China, commodity prices, Fed policy and the slow transition from resources to the non-mining sector of the economy, the Australian labour market remains resilient. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that ...

Rubik appoints head of marketing

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Financial services software company Rubik Financial has appointed Joanna McCarthy to the newly created position of head of marketing and communications. Reporting to Rubik chief executive, Iain Dunstan, she will be responsible for all brand, digital ...