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Industry funds consider $22bn merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
Two industry superannuation funds are considering merging to create a $22 billion superannuation fund. MTAA Super and Tasplan have entered into a binding Memorandum of Understanding to investigate a possible merger that would see the creation of a $22 ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
There's no question about it, for sure and for certain the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates again. RBA governor Philip Lowe told us so when he addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Adelaide ...

Statewide Super cans merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
Statewide Super has dumped plans to merge with Tasplan and WA Super, saying it will now pursue other opportunities. As exclusively revealed by Financial Standard in March, the $9.8 billion superannuation fund had signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

Instos flex influence over investee companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
Superannuation funds and fund managers wield significant influence over capital allocation decisions in companies they invest in, research from Monash Business School finds. About 275 Australian institutional investors, the majority of which work in ...

MetLife, AFA call for more diversity in advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
MetLife and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) launched the MetLife Progress: Professional Development Grant for Women. MetLife Progress is aimed at creating greater gender diversity in the financial advice industry by helping women achieve ...

Group life premiums topple benefits paid: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... $4.7 billion in premiums and paying 42% or nearly $1.95 billion in benefits. Industry fund Rest, which recently appointed TAL as its group insurer after a 15-year relationship with AIA Australia, took in $3.4 billion worth of premiums and paid out $1.3 ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
Financial markets action over the past few days leading up to the June G20 meeting in Osaka - where the main game is between the trade talks between the two biggest economies in the world, the United States and the People's Republic of China - suggests ...

Aberdeen Standard hires retirement head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
Aberdeen Standard Investments has moved to accelerate its shift to a major retirement solutions provider in Australia, appointing a former Ernst and Young wealth partner as head of retirement. The global asset manager recruited EY wealth management ...

Will financial advisers cease to exist?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
More than half of all financial advisers believe the role they perform today will change substantially or cease to exist over the coming decade, according to research from the CFA Institute. With the necessary skillset to be a financial adviser evolving ...

Industry fund appoints deputy CIO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
A $50 billion industry superannuation fund has promoted from within to fill a newly created deputy chief investment officer role. Cbus has appointed Brett Chatfield to the new role; he will be stepping into the position from his role as head of public ...