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MySuper growth leads industry

KANIKA SOOD, DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... than the September quarter (24%). Biggest MySuper winners in the December quarter included 30-50 age cohorts in MySuper lifecycle products, which harvested 5% returns on an average. In single investment strategy options, retail products led the returns ...

Industry fund launches lifecycle default option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... secondary Catholic schools with an average age of about 50. Secondly, ACS is looking at other factors to enhance its lifecycle strategies including gender and account balance among others. Women tend to be more conservative for example, so ACS has designed ...

Asset manager bets on blockchain for private equity audits

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... is using blockchain - the latest technology reshaping financial services - to speed up the auditing of private equity lifecycle events. Northern Trust is assigning blockchain nodes to audit firms, which will give them access to a "golden copy" of fund ...

Blockchain saving mutual funds US$2.6bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... highlights how significantly the benefits can be accelerated when using blockchain technology to automate the entire lifecycle of mutual fund transaction - from order placement to settlement and payment. "These results are testament to the impact technology ...

Global fintech firm to launch in APAC

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... existing Unigy product. It enables cloud-based access to communications between counterparties, liquidity and trade lifecycle services for both the buy-side and sell-side, inter-dealer brokers, listed and over-the-counter liquidity venues, market data ...

Retail MySuper outpacing NFP products

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
... MySuper (7.7%). Single investment strategy products delivered an average net investment return of 8.1%. Comparatively, lifecycle products returned 8.6% (also varying by age cohort), which represented 35% of the total MySuper assets. Meanwhile, Rainmaker's ...

Big bedrooms pose challenge for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... measures of sophistication. He said baby boomers and retirees, not millennials, are creating a new stage in the global lifecycle. In Australia the most common age of retirement is 58, and life expectancy sits at 82, meaning there's about 24 years in ...

Holistic wealth management solutions remain advice key: NAB

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... and advice, and so we need to invest to give customers the ability to engage in all stages of the wealth management lifecycle," MLC chief executive and NAB executive general manager of wealth Matthew Lawrance said. "That includes a single offering that ...

MySuper milestones monitor industry movement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... change in the super industry has led to some innovation at the product level. "Tasplan moved from single strategy to lifecycle, while Virgin moved from fund level to product level under Mercer. MLC has consolidated a range of products into a smaller ...

Super FUM up 10pct to $2.3tn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... of their Accrued Default Amounts now being fully transferred across into lower cost MySuper products. Within MySuper, lifecycle investments grew even faster as they jumped 34% and have now broken through the $200 billion barrier. Lifecycle investments ...