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Fund managers' transparency poor: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
Lack of transparency in Australia's funds management industry not only lags global standards, it could also be deteriorating retirement savings, according to a new study. Commissioned by Monash University's Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) ...

Greater tech support needed for goals-based advice strategies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
Despite growing popularity of the goals-based advice model, financial advisers are struggling to integrate existing systems with the goals-based approach. An opportunity exists for financial planning software providers to develop a solution capable ...

Beyond 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... corresponding drop in the Australian dollar exchange rate which hit a low of US$0.6843 in the same year. The index made another run for 6000 again earlier this year but made it only to a high of 5956.52 points on 1 May before faltering once more. It's ...

Younger generations gaining super ground

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... Millennials to be exposed to investment strategies with higher allocation to growth assets on which there has been a long bull run since the GFC.

Market neutral isn't always the neutral: Alleron

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... positions. "Market neutral paradoxically can be more exposed to drawdown risk than a 150/50 structure when low quality stocks run hard," Littler said. Alleron specialises in large cap equities across long and short portfolios. It was estalbished by Litter ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Machine learning is transforming the way financial services operates, as a growing number of Australian firms are adopting it to make sense of big data and to improve productivity. According to Bloomberg, more than half (55%) of Australian financial ...

Fed does the expected, will do as expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... funds rate; the federal funds rate is likely to remain, for some time, below levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run. However, the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data." ...

FPA supports disadvantaged youths

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... through volunteer work and the provision of pro bono services," Brown said. Recipients include: Byron Youth Services, The Run Beyond Project, Conscious Creative, BestLife, EBL Disability Services, Beacon Foundation and Kids off the Kerb. Over the course ...

AMP rolling out enhanced goals-based advice business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... corporate side of the business and helping design its future. "What we're trying to do more and more is get advisers who have run businesses in the field into AMP and bring the real world into the corporate side of the business," he said. At the University ...

VicSuper names new insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
VicSuper has appointed its new insurance provider, replacing a long-running partnership with AMP. MetLife will take over the $19 billion superannuation fund's insurance portfolio following a comprehensive tender process involving six potential insurers ...