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Legg Mason Brandywine gets nod from Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... fundamentals and valuation to invest in countries with high real interest rates and supportive currencies. Legg Mason Australia head of sales Beau Titchkosky said: "We believe Legg Mason has a compelling solution for advisers seeking to position their ...

ETFs benefit from market volatility: SSGA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... the largest beneficiaries of global market volatility as investors look to dodge high levels of uncertainty. SSGA Australia head of SPDR ETFs Amanda Skelly said while dramatic share market declines often trigger worrying and irrational behavior, they ...

ASX jumps "despite" naughty news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
Ho ho ho! Santa's in town. That's the feeling one gets when one looks at the Australian equity markets' performance on the first trading day of that merriest month of the year. The S&P/ASX 200 index started the day strong and finished stronger - up ...

CIPRs not the entire answer for retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... needed. Speaking at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference yesterday, Towers Watson Australia head of retirement income Nick Callil said there is no silver bullet when attempting to create a CIPR for separate cohorts of ...

Super trustees get a handle on retirement income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... the federal government is looking at changes to the establishment of retirement income products. Towers Watson Australia head of retirement income strategy, Nick Callil, said developing a super fund's retirement income strategy is not a simple task. ...

KPMG pinpoints stagnant insurance industry

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... target new customer-bases with existing insurance products, rather than developing new products. According to KPMG Australia head of insurance Martin Blake, "Rapid innovation has created significant challenges for insurers with 48% saying that their ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... appoints Apogee GM - Brendan Johnson has been appointed general manager of Apogee Financial Planning. BNP appoints Australia head of asset services - Ian Rae has been appointed to BNP Paribas' newly-created role of head of asset and fund services (AFS) ...

BNP appoints Australia head of asset services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
BNP Paribas has appointed an executive to the newly-created role of head of asset and fund services (AFS) business line in Australia. Ian Rae will be reporting to BNP head of Australia and New Zealand, David Braga, and globally to head of AFS Operations ...

Hockey slams Labor super tax proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... tax concessions on earnings for retirees are growing at more than twice the rate of the age pension." Taxpayers Australia head of superannuation Reece Agland concurred, saying that "while tax free retirement income is a great facet of the current system ...

Another marquee hire for Rainmaker

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... services and wealth management industry information and publishing groups, has appointed former Perpetual and ING Australia head of research Maggie Callinan as its new head of superannuation research. As head of superannuation research at Rainmaker Information ...