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Super insurance must be standardised: ISWG

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
The Insurance in Superannuation Working Group is pushing to standardise how super funds communicate life insurance information to members. In its third discussion paper released today, the working group highlights three in ten Australians have no clue ...

BT Panorama lists sovereign bond fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... in physical sovereign bonds ensures liquidity in all markets and a simplicity that clients can understand. According to the PDS, the fund is actively managed and aims to generate income by investing in a globally diversified portfolio of government bonds ...

Industry fund launches ethical investment option

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... This option has a high level of investment risk and suits members with an investment time horizon of six years or more, the PDS shows. Chief executive David Elia said sustainable investing has been a focus for Hostplus for a numbers of years and an extensive ...

Liftoff imminent at Spaceship

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... have to actively transfer their funds into Spaceship and away from their employer's default fund. According to Spaceship's PDS, the product-provider does not have their own stance on ethical investing but rather relies under the policies of underlying ...

Women-led super funds outperform, so why so few leaders

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... said retail funds were excluded from the study because retail funds do not have chief executives, their trustees run multiple PDS-ed products and their executives usually work for associated service providers rather than the fund itself. Australia's ...

Confusion reigns in super and life insurance: CHOICE

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... life insurance via product dashboards. "This would save consumers the time and effort currently involved in comprehending a PDS, something which the evidence suggests is too onerous for the overwhelming majority of consumers to attempt," CHOICE said. ...

IMAP ensuring greater representation for MDAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... driver for the establishment of the committee is the different regulations that organisations offering managed accounts via a PDS must adhere to, and their tendency to have greater diversity across business models. "MDA providers have expressed enthusiasm ...

mFund to expand product offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... Service. Until now retail investors could only apply for and redeem interests in simple managed investment schemes with a shorter PDS, but a revision to the Class Order will facilitate a wider range of managed investment products to be issued and redeemed ...

SMSFs encouraged to embrace fintech

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... "Advances in technology mean that independent intellect for asset selection no longer has to come with the costs of product and PDS manufacturing. Genuinely independent advisers can leverage investment committee expertise, have a fund manager offer a ...

ANZ improves OneCare for advisers

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... making sure they can access benefit payments when they need them most. The bank has improved client experience with a combined PDS and policy terms document, which is written to ensure understanding products is simple and transparent. OneCare's underwriting ...