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Employer fiduciary responsibility could halve super fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
Vanguard chairman and chief executive Bill McNabb believes the Australian superannuation system can learn a lot from the US and encourage employers to take a more active role in driving down fees paid by members. The global head of the specialist low ...

Funds under management to hit $8tr by 2035: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... Management and Colonial First State Global Asset Management. Rounding up the top 10 list were Macquarie Banking Group, Vanguard Investments Australia, QIC Limited, BlackRock Investment Management and Challenger, in that order. How this league table will ...

FEATURE: The great race to invest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... 2015. This is the lowest annualised SMSF growth rate since the introduction of the Simpler Super Reforms in 2008. The Vanguard and Investment Trends 2015 SMSF report attributed the slowdown to "fewer people leaving traditional superannuation funds as ...

Multi-sector investments reach $555 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... really a great deal of difference in outcomes. Returns are typically clustered so a low-cost largely passive approach like Vanguard's range of strategies is a great way to go, or investors can consider strategies we believe have skill in tactical asset ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... SuperBPO), Houlihan spent 10 years as head of product and technical services for both JBWere Investment Management and Vanguard Investments Australia. In between there were a couple of roles as head of product and technical services for both Vanguard ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... are invested in cash because trustees never got around to appropriately investing, so the returns haven't been great." Vanguard head of market strategy and communications Robin Bowerman agreed, observing that super fund members are never more conscious ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... world. Under this agreement we have been granted an RQFII quota of $50 billion renminbi ($11 billion). Already Melbourne's Vanguard announced plans to utilise this quota. Without these schemes and quotas we cannot serve this strongly growing middle class. ...

SMSFs keeping cash for better markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... the introduction of Simpler Super reforms in 2008. The figures form part of annual SMSF research released jointly by Vanguard and Investment Trends yesterday. This year's report is based on a survey of about 4000 SMSF trustees and 501 financial advisers. ...

China impossible to ignore for asset managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Vanguard Asia-Pacific head of investment strategy group, Jeffrey Johnson, said China is a market that is impossible for investors to ignore despite its economy continuing to slow. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ...

Managed funds jump $115 billion

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... reported strong double digit annual growth with some of the better performances in percentage terms recorded by UBS, MFS, Vanguard, Perpetual, BlackRock, State Street, National Australia / MLC and Commonwealth / Colonial.