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FSI favours Chile-style default super auction

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... "absence of strong consumer-driven competition." It put this lack of competition down to members' lack of engagement and reliance on employers to choose default funds for their employees. Under the new system, the report stated: "[E]ach fund would be ...

Rename general advice, disclose ownership: FSI

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... should be replaced with a more appropriate, consumer-tested term to help reduce consumer misinterpretation and excessive reliance on this type of information," the report said. "Consumers may misinterpret or excessively rely on guidance, advertising ...

India mutual funds reach A$149bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... Chennai and Kolkata account for 74% of funds under management. The five largest mutual fund managers are HDFC Mutual, Reliance, ICICI Prudential, Birla Sun Life and UTI which hold a combined 53% of the market. BlackRock and Franklin Templeton hold 4% ...

NZ Super CEO higher paid than Aussie counterparts

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... structure of the fund reflects how the fund's Guardians have moved to bring more investment expertise in-house and to reduce reliance on external managers in an effort to reduce total costs and deliver better value to the fund and its stakeholders. "This ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... capacity, so outright exclusion of nuclear energy directly conflicts with our view on the importance of reducing our reliance on high carbon energy sources," he said. However, he said LGS had "beefed up" its ESG screening of nuclear power companies ...

SG freeze to hit young and low income earners hardest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... in productivity enhancing and nation building infrastructure, more pressure on future federal budgets due to increased reliance on the pension and the creation of a two-tier super system, with inequitable access to tax concessions depending on income." ...

Law firm rubbishes Grattan fee report

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... counterparts must recognise the impact of local policy settings such as compulsion, preservation, portability and the reliance on disclosure as a regulatory tool. The law firm says these are valuable aspects of our system but expensive to administer ...

MetLife refocuses on middle classes with direct distribution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... Journal reported that the new strategy is partly in response to pressure from MetLife shareholders to diversify their reliance away from traditional distribution but the real reason may be more brutal: an industry wide 45% decline in policies sold to ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... doubt they will push U.S.-Russian relations into a dead end, and cause very serious damage." Europe knows it. "Due to the reliance of many European countries on Russian oil and natural gas, the EU stopped short of the full-scale commercial warfare that ...

Fixed it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... a-changed. Not so long ago, many were concern over Australian bank's vulnerability to rising interest rates because of their reliance on offshore funding. Moody's even went further: Sydney Morning Herald (18 May 2011) - "Moody's Investors Service has ...