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IRESS acquires digital advice compliance business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... times will underpin the fund's goal towards becoming a 100% digitally enabled business," IRESS superannuation general manager Jeff Hall said. "In this case digital technology is an enabler and can innovate the modern super fund environment, whilst still ...

ABDO unveils top investment strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... downturns." Also speaking today are: Philipp Hofflin - Lazard Asset Management Andy Budden - Capital Group Anne Anderson and Jeff Grow - UBS Asset Management Michael Bowen and Sunny Ng - PineBridge Investments Chris Andrews - La Trobe Financial Thomas ...

MyRetirement products too pricey for super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... innovation around designing and offering retirement income solutions to members, but iPac Securities chief investment officer Jeff Rogers disagrees. Acknowledging it is difficult to design default retirement products, Rogers said he believes the bulk ...

Industry fund switches to IRESS

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... fund environment, whilst still providing exceptional face-to-face customer service," IRESS superannuation general manager Jeff Hall said. Statewide members will be able to track their fund's performance from their mobile phone. Acurity online includes ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... longevity and sequencing risk. This idea was expanded upon in a recent article by Milliman financial risk management consultant Jeff Gebler, who argued that behavioural economics "has revealed the vast gulf that exists between what people say they want ...

Morningstar fuels fund ratings with AI

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Morningstar is using artificial intelligence to power its funds rating process to rate more than 10,000 products. The research house has launched Quantitative Rating, a machine learning and quant-driven system that boasts the ability to rate funds at ...

Former advice dealer group chief executive surfaces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... Commenting on his appointment, Fernandez said the opportunity to join Chase Corporate Advisory arose from managing director Jeff Singh's desire to expand the firm's operations and duplicate its success in Sydney. "For me it is an opportunity to grow ...

Macquarie sells remaining stake in Atlas Roads for $456m

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... internalised in a move that was described as being "in the best interests of securityholders." MQA chairs Nora Scheinkestel and Jeff Conyers issued a joint statement to the ASX, explaining that "the relationship with Macquarie has served securityholders' ...

Corporate governance LIC slashes fees, appoints portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... Management, with whom AQF has negotiated a reduction in the total expense ratio from 0.49% of gross assets to 0.19%. AQF chair Jeff Whalan explained that "investor appetite for index funds is strong and we are keen to provide better value for investors ...

Former adviser cops 10-year imprisonment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
The former principal of Sherwin Financial Planners was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for fraud. Bradley Thomas Sherwin was found guilty of 25 charges following an ASIC investigation arising from of the collapse of his financial planning business ...