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Financial Standard appoints editor, unveils new website

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... content in financial services. We will be making further announcements on new media partnerships and a re-design of our journal mastheads," Baltazar said. While 2017 is shaping up as a milestone year, 2016 has been highly successful for Financial Standard ...

Archaic gender rules mask super benefits

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
Superannuation funds are failing to effectively engage LGBTI members due to antiquated rules on gender identity, and the need for reform is growing. Addressing the recent FPA Professionals Congress in Perth, high-profile transgender Catherine McGregor ...

Do super funds hold AAA rating key?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
A group of Australia's leading economic minds believe building and increasing infrastructure investment would assist an otherwise weakening economy at threat of losing its AAA credit rating. Economist Ross Garnaut told The Superannuation Opportunity ...

LIF to be introduced this week

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The legislation for the Life Insurance Framework will be formally introduced into parliament this week, the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer has confirmed. Responding to questions from industry journalists at the AFA National ...

Pilot, surgeon and soccer coach join FPA line up

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
The Financial Planning Association has announced the full line up of speakers ahead of the 2016 FPA Professionals Congress in Perth later this year. FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said this year's group of speakers was the strongest one yet for the ...

Fund managers must offer genuine partnerships

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
Pricing too aggressively and paying nothing more than lip service to the notion that your clients are your partners is a slow route to profitability, according to GQG Partners chairman and chief investment officer Rajiv Jain. The global equities portfolio ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... Governor Haruhiko Kuroda insists that there is still room for interest rates to go even more negative, the 'Wall Street Journal' reports that Kuroda is seeing the negative side of cutting negative interest rates deeper into the negative. "The BOJ governor ...

First State Super awards $1.6bn mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
First State Super has awarded a $1.6 billion emerging market equities mandate. Neuberger Berman will provide systematic exposure to selected risk premia in emerging market equities for the $71 billion, 759,000-member super fund. Neuberger Berman Australia ...

International pension research network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
A new international research network is aiming to promote and advance high-quality social science studies on pensions, ageing and retirement. The network, which includes Australia's Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) as a founding ...

Former Sunsuper CIO joins advisory firm

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
Sydney-based advisory firm, MCG Wealth Management, has appointed a former chief investment officer of Sunsuper to head for its investment committee. Stepping into the role is Jack Gray, who was most recently co-head of asset allocation at GMO Boston. ...