Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 131 - 140 of 16678 results for "superannuation"

ASIC, APRA provide FAR update

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
... (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have published new information to help insurers and superannuation trustees prepare for the commencement of the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR). The FAR already applies to the banking ...

Australia climbs global wealth ranks

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... wealth, with a Gini Index of 54 seeing it ranked third in terms of wealth equality. McAuley said strong growth in superannuation and property has spurred a rise in millionaires by USD standards, with the country nearing two million. "We expect growth ...

Adviser queries jump 40%: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
Financial advisers are focused on helping their clients navigate superannuation contributions, transfer balance caps, dealing with a death benefit and home ownership issues, according to the latest data from AMP Advice. TapIn, AMP Advice's technical ...

Insignia Financial overhauls operating model, executive team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... model and introducing a new structure that will centre around four dedicated lines of business: asset management, superannuation (Master Trust), wrap platform and advice. "Each business line will be led by an executive with end-to-end accountability ...

Fiji National Provident Fund hunts active fund managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... The Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) is seeking active fund managers to oversee two strategies. The country's superannuation fund is on the hunt for fund managers to invest on behalf of its Global Listed Developed Market Equity Strategy 1 and Global ...

MetLife refreshes two products

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... Protect insures against death, trauma, disability, illness, or injury, while MetLife Protect Super is a risk-only superannuation product. MetLife Protect Super is issued by Equity Trustees via the Smart Future Trust. Changes that affect both products ...

Invartis enters Australian market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
Strategic consulting firm Invartis is expanding into Australia with plans to provide services to support superannuation funds and wealth managers. The new office will be set up in Melbourne and Nigel Jansz has been named as country head - Invartis Australia ...

The investment managers winning the biggest mandates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... Cbus. Then came JP Morgan which won a $2.31 billion international fixed interest mandate from HESTA. Meanwhile, the superannuation fund with the most mandates is HOSTPLUS, with 314 total mandates, with an average size of $343 million. State Super ranks ...

Spaceship returns 19.41% to super members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Spaceship's superannuation offerings have delivered some of the best results seen so far, with its flagship product returning almost 20% while the other achieved close to 17%. The GrowthX investment option, first launched in January 2017, returned 19.41% ...

ASIC levy to slug advisers $48.4m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... enforcement activity, while supervision and surveillance have been allocated $6.5 million. Investment managers, superannuation funds, and related services will have to fork out $65.65 million, while market infrastructure and intermediaries will pay $64.1 ...