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FPA confronts advisers with their worst nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has confronted advisers at the annual Conference with the case of a young disabled woman who took $800,000 to a financial planner and lost it all due to bad advice. The client became disabled after a car accident ...

Link calls on govt to remove Stronger Super red tape

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013

Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... no appetite in this country for quotas regardless of whichever political party is in power." Quotas also encourage a 'tick box' approach to governance which is generally counterproductive, she said. A much more effective strategy is using the soft power ...

Best Interest drives advisers away from products

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... between what's legal and what's right." "The regulator has realised that the previous advice process of a mechanical 'tick the box' for compliance doesn't work," he said. "Advisers need to make recommendations based on the clients' best interest and ...

Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
ASX-listed companies are being asked to confront poor working conditions in 'least developed countries' (LDCs), with the release of a paper by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) entitled 'Labour and Human Rights Risks in Supply-Chain ...

Industry under-prepared for SuperStream: Bravura

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... superannuation client for the use of Bravura's Babel software as a SuperStream messaging compliance solution. With its 'out-of-the-box' Babel software, Bravura believes it has an efficient solution to enable business to comply with the new SuperStream ...

Canadian pension funds flock to Aussie infra

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
"Safe-haven" Australian infrastructure and property assets are seeing a wave of interest from Canadian pension fund investors, according to The Trust Company. Fresh from a visit to some of Canada's leading pension funds, Andrew Cannane, general manager ...

ASMA dismayed by proposed super hikes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... retirement," she said. The research comes from surveys of ASMA's 2,500 members and Carrabs says the data is not derived from box-ticking questionnaires but from lengthy responses from members. "We're getting essays from some people, that's how strongly ...

RARE Infra doubles assets, boosts staff

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
Homegrown fund manager RARE's investment strategies have worked so well the group has doubled its assets to $6 billion in less than two years. The group's FUM climbed from $2.9 billion two years ago to $6 billion this year, RARE head of distribution ...

Moody's downgrade drives demand for Aus bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... AAA, with Australia now the third largest triple-A bond market after Germany and Canada. The downgrade puts Australia "in a box seat," as the number of economies with triple-A scorecards from every major ratings house grows smaller, Rodger Bridges, head ...