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SMSFs most affordable: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
Self-managed super funds continue to have the lowest fees across all superannuation vehicles, charging an average total expense ratio of 0.82%, latest Rainmaker Research shows. The 2018 Rainmaker Fee Study, which analysed more than 2500 fee options ...

Industry fund drops life premiums, pension fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
A $1.5 billion industry superannuation fund is reducing select insurance premiums after renegotiating its group insurance mandate. It also slashed the administration fee on its pension account. Under a new group cover deal with MetLife, REI Super has ...

Firetrail calls off $305m IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
The former Macquarie stock pickers have hit the brakes on a LIC based on their absolute return strategy after a few investors lapped up most of the raise. Firetrail Investments had raised "well over" $100 million when management and board decided the ...

Colonial First State to cut tobacco by 2020

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
Colonial First State has vouched to offload all its tobacco-related investments by 2020, as it signs on to the UN-endorsed Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge. CFS currently has less than 1% of total assets in tobacco-related investments but declined to disclose ...

SMSFs: Who, what, where, when and how

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
Financial advisers have been provided with a simple checklist to employ when considering recommending a self-managed superannuation fund to clients. Australian Financial Complaints Authority lead ombudsman - superannuation, June Smith reinforced the ...

ETFs attracting more money than LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
Aussie investors now have more money invested in the rapidly-expanding exchange traded fund market than in long-standing listed investment companies. The ETP market has just hit $42.3 billion in funds under management - that's $60 million more than ...

Chief economist update: Blame and trim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
Trump blamed the Fed for last week's heightened volatility on Wall Street and I agreed that he was correct when he ranted that, "The Fed is going loco and there's no reason for them to do it." This is because - as I wrote last Friday - America's ...

Advice is valuable but advocacy issues abound

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
Australians need to experience financial advice first-hand to truly understand its financial, emotional and behavioural benefits. However, there are many issues hindering take-up. That is the underlying theme of the Association of Financial Advisers' ...

CFA Institute asks FASEA to recognise charterholders

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
The association representing CFAs is asking its charterholders be allowed to qualify as financial advisers, as FASEA overhauls the educational standards in the advice industry. CFA Institute chief executive Paul Smith was in Sydney for a briefing that ...

What do future asset managers look like?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
J.P. Morgan Asset Management chief executive Chris Willcox has outlined his vision for the $120 trillion asset management industry, identifying a true north for its future direction. Speaking to a group of international media in London on Tuesday, Willcox ...