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Saving super from Tinder sex bots

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... according to Telesign chief executive Aled Miles. Speaking at the 2016 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference, Miles discussed the client analytics Telesign produces in addition to its primary function as a provider of two-step SMS ...

ASFA board changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... three lifetime memberships. The board composition was revealed following ASFA's annual general meeting at the 2016 ASFA Conference on the Gold Coast. Michael Easson is independent chair, HOSTPLUS chief executive David Elia and REST chief executive Damian ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
US consumer confidence The Conference Board's consumer confidence index dropped to 98.6 in October following a downwardly revised 103.5 reading (from 104.1) in the previous month. This is much lower than market expectations for a slight decrease to ...

Dunsford explains backpedal at EGM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... interactions with government. Speaking to media following the EGM, which was held at last week's AFA National Adviser Conference in Canberra, out-going president Deborah Kent said: "This process shows us that the AFA has the support of the majority of ...

Adviser reform about recovering social licence

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... rather than drive the industry apart, a panel of insurance industry stakeholders said on day two of the AFA's annual conference. Risk adviser Dave Slovinec, group risk specialist Terry Rhodes, BT Financial national life insurance product manager Scott ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
US consumer confidence The Conference Board's consumer confidence index jumped to 104.1 in September from an upwardly revised 101.8 in the previous month. This is better than consensus expectations for a dip to 99.0 and is the highest level since the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... the next three months to end-December 2016 rose to 73% from 51% last month. US leading economic indicator The Conference Board's leading economic index disappointed market expectations for a 0.1% pick up, falling by 0.2% in August instead that followed ...

Brown to leave after AFA board re-election

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... at the conclusion of the AFA's AGM as per the AFA constitution, to be held on 6 October at the AFA national adviser conference in Canberra. The AFA EGM is also to be held on this date, one hour before the AGM.

Super funds must harvest farmland

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... global. TIAA Global Real Assets managing director John Goodreds told the Australian Superannuation Investment (ASI) conference that setting up core investment in farmland and value-add investments in agribusiness would place institutional investors in ...

Super CIOs say short-termism endemic

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... on future investment strategies. A panel of fund executives told the 2016 Australian Superannuation Investment (ASI) conference that regardless of the "lower for longer" environment there needs to be heavy lifting in unacceptable short-term attitudes. ...