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Managed accounts demand dominates platform market

KARREN VERGARA  |  SUNDAY, 17 SEP 2017
... disrupting investment managers; FoFA is disputing advice businesses and millennial app-based firms are disrupting super funds. For most platform players, the managed accounts functionality is becoming the baseline or the most basic, starting position ...

Cuffe to join Class board

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... Class inked a partnership with accounting and financial advice network Countplus for the provision of self-managed super funds and wealth accounting software. A.S.A.P. Advice, a Tasmania-based digital advice platform that assists accountants provide ...

MySuper milestones monitor industry movement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... Complementing this was the final transition of all workplace default members to a MySuper account. Excluding self-managed super funds, MySuper now accounts for more than 40% of super assets or $595 billion. Rainmaker analysis shows there are 111 individual ...

Group insurance inaction is "robbery": Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... Corporations and Financial Services chair Steve Irons said the responsibility shouldn't fall solely on the individual, rather super funds and insurers must also take action. Irons said for an individual who left their employer and stopped making contributions ...

Adviser, SMSF demand driving LIC growth

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
Financial advisers and self-managed super funds are helping drive the strong demand for listed investment vehicles offering wider asset classes and a more diversified portfolio, according to a MinterEllison report. The Australian listed investment companies ...

Super funds and weapons of mass destruction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
Warren Buffett may have called derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction" but an increasing number of super funds are using them as a cost-saving measure. Milliman head of fund advisory services Michael Armitage told delegates at the Australian ...

No room for complacency: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference, Rowell said now that higher account balances are skewing towards retirees, super funds need to rethink their benefit design and investment strategies. Funds are also challenged by increasing amounts ...

The pointy end of super regulation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
With the risk of market turmoil subsiding, super funds are now contending with preparing for two key pieces of industry regulation. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference on the Gold Coast, new AIST ...

Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
Several Australian superannuation funds have been included in the ranks of the world's largest pension funds, recording a 9.1% increase in growth. Research provided by Willis Towers Watson shows that of 300 pension funds listed, 16 Australian funds ...

Group insurance premium arrangements unclear: ISWG

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... any surpluses that arise are immediately credited directly back to members. There are currently no requirements for super funds to disclose whether or not it uses a premium adjustment mechanism. "It is this opaqueness that lends itself to concerns that ...