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Pension and retirement strategies a global problem

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... levels of various aspects of pension distribution, including framework, policies, incentives and all actions related to designing, offering and spreading pension and retirement products and services through the retail customer base.

Government must not mandate products for super members: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... Garcia said. "We continue to argue that members will be best served by funds adopting a principles-based approach to designing a retirement income strategy and framework." Garcia said regardless of AIST's views, scrutiny of superannuation fees was not ...

Redpoint awarded MLC equities mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... Batho, said the announcement was another demonstration of the company's investment management capabilities and a focus on designing and delivering investment strategies across developed and emerging equity markets. MLC global equities portfolio manager ...

Client satisfaction up despite bad press

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... country's leading advice firms have had over the last 12 months, according to a new comprehensive research report. The 'Designing the Future' study, conducted on behalf of Zurich by Melbourne-based research consultancy The Beddoes Institute, analyses ...

Make financial firms more accountable for products: FSI

ALICE URIBE  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... this afternoon that he had reservations about increasing ASIC's product design powers. "There is a moral hazard of ASIC designing products," he told media this afternoon. "Do we want them designing products or approving them? I question ASIC's role as ...

Affinia hires regional business consultants

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... comprising 250 advisers. She also has experience with engaging with accountants and mortgage brokers, compliance, and designing tailored marketing solutions for advisers. Pegg has held a number of consultancy roles with several industry institutions ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
A Canadian finance professor has come up with a way of making lifetime annuities affordable by designing them so they only pay out if the market does badly. According to Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, Toronto, while lifetime and deferred lifetime ...

AXA IM to expand outside of Europe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... directly with AXA IM's large institutional clients around the world and assist them in knowledge sharing across regions and designing appropriate investment solutions. "Tim has been with AXA IM for a few years now and many Australian investors have benefitted ...

MySuper lifecycle options not for everyone: AusSuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... AustralianSuper periodically reviews its default option. He added that the launch of the MySuper regime would see funds designing default products that are better tailored to their members.

Data security emerging as a superannuation risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... between what the big four banks and super funds do online," said Muscat. Muscat said a first step for super funds in designing a data security strategy is to understand what their data risks actually are because there are several forms of online attack ...