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Sunsuper prepares for end of super in awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
Industry super funds should ready themselves for the removal of superannuation from the modern awards system, according to Sunsuper chief executive Scott Hartley. Six months into his role at the fund, the former NAB exec told Financial Standard he thought ...

Momentum for mFund service gathering despite uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Equity Trustees has said it is starting to see momentum building for investors to transact through the ASX's mFund Settlement Service. The group says applications for funds provided by two of its clients, PIMCO and Armytage Private Funds, are being ...

Capacity issues drive super funds in-house

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
Superannuation funds are increasingly moving towards developing in-house investment capabilities in order to manage capacity issues, according JANA head of investment outcomes Steven Carew. While cost-cutting is more commonly given as the reason for ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

Government to pass most FoFA changes through regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
The government is intending to approve most changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) law through regulation first, despite Labor and the Greens strong opposition to the amendments. Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann issued a response to the ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
Tensions continue in Iraq (has it ever gone away?), Russia's building up troops on Ukraine's border (38,000 and counting according to Ukraine) and the IMF has just released fresh forecasts for the US economy (crystal ball now shows growth at a flat ...

SSgA ETF head leaves following appointment of new boss

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) Asia Pacific head of ETFs Frank Henze has stood down after more than three and a half years with the company. Henze's resignation follows a reshuffle of SSgA's Asia Pacific intermediary business group which saw James ...

Investors return to active global equities managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
Active managers in the global equities space are back in favour following an extended period of outflows, according to Fidelity portfolio manager Amit Lodha. Between 2008 and 2012, active global equity funds saw net outflows of US$825 billion (A$870 ...

SSgA appoints head of intermediary business

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has appointed James MacNevin as head its intermediary business group for the Asia Pacific region, to lead the firm's expansion in this channel. SSgA's intermediary business group, which partners with financial intermediaries ...

Survey reveals investors greatest fear in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
A hard landing in China is the risk investors are most concerned about in the second half of 2014, according to a recent Credit Suisse survey. The financial services company collected data via snap polls of attendees at its fifth annual Global Macro ...