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Australia's super assets fastest growing: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... overall short-term figures are positive these are due to unusually high market returns. "Looking back at 20 years of progress makes for encouraging reading. In particular, the improving position of pension assets as a proportion of GDP and the evolution ...

Praemium enhances digital offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... provides advisers with complete transparency and requires them to invite clients to accept an application form online. Progress of the application is tracked via a dashboard and email notifications. "The new process uses international, standards-based ...

Insto investors looking for company transparency: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
Institutional investors are looking for detailed disclosure from portfolio companies about their strategy and goals, board composition and ESG commitments, according to research from global consultancy Morrow Sodali. The research was based on a survey ...

Wells Fargo opens up on pay gaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
Wells Fargo has become the third major US bank to take action on gender and ethnicity pay gaps. Responding to shareholder pressure the bank released the findings of its most recent pay equity study. It showed women working for Wells Fargo in the US ...

CBA chair says culture needs improvement

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... Catherine Livingstone acknowledged "there are aspects of our culture where we could improve." APRA issued an update on its progress with the inquiry, saying that of about 80 interviews flagged with current and former CBA staff, 60 have been completed. ...

Advice firm enters insurance market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
A Melbourne financial advice firm launched its own personal risk insurance offering. New and existing clients of Hewison Private Wealth can now obtain life, TPD, income protection and trauma insurance, free from commissions. Clients that take out policies ...

TAL enhances adviser learning hub

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... it easier for advisers to keep their learning plans in one place, with a learning dashboard where they can track their progress," he said. The academy registered more than 6000 advisers undertaking 16,500 courses since 2015. The majority of courses are ...

Institutions urged to overhaul outdated risk management practices

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... and behaviour by organisations are often the direct cause of such unrest and the public is now rapidly surpassing what progress has been made. As such, Laughlin believes more, proactive attention needs to be paid to social risks rather than just monitoring ...

Equity factor investing undergoes further examination

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... Lionel Martellini said investors, and especially asset owners, are ultimately aware of the difficulties and the technical progress to be achieved to master dynamic factor allocation. "Although valuation-based methods have been widely criticised in academia ...

FinTech Australia chair steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... growing responsibilities at Reinventure. Stoyan thanked Cant for his leadership and said he looks forward to continuing to progress the fintech space. "I expect that 2018 will be an incredibly enriching and exciting one for Australia's fintech industry ...