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Former adviser faces fraud charges

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
A former financial adviser permanently banned by ASIC in 2016 has appeared in court, charged with $5.9 million of fraud. Ben Jayaweera has been charged with six counts of fraud for allegedly causing detriment to clients whilst an authorised representative ...

AustralianSuper recruiting new property lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
The head of property at Australia's largest superannuation fund has departed. AustralianSuper confirmed Jack McGougan has left the fund, following a decade in the role. McGougan joined the $130 billion fund in 2008, having previously been head of property ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
I'm all for transparency but some discussions or disagreements are better resolved behind closed doors. Not for the limelight/spotlight-hogging president of the US. Donald Trump didn't take to Twitter this time, he penned an open letter to tell ...

Chief economist update: Fed will go hiking in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
Another rate hike is coming soon! This is the almost unanimous verdict financial markets and the intelligentsia gave after reading the minutes of the US Federal Reserve's 1-2 May FOMC meeting. Can't blame them, it was there all for everybody ...

Rest awards global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
Rest has awarded a new global equities mandate to a US-based boutique. GQG Partners, part of Pacific Current Group's multi-affiliate suite, will manage a global equities portfolio for the $50 billion fund. The mandate brings GQG's total number ...

Industry fund welcomes local politician to board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
An $11 billion industry superannuation fund is welcoming the former mayor of Penrith to its board. Current councillor and former mayor of Penrith City Council Karen McKeown is the latest director to join the board of Local Government Super. Bringing ...

Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
There is division over whether or not private life insurers should be able to fund medical treatments for rehabilitating customers - the subject of a current Parliamentary Joint Committee - with giants like MLC Insurance and AustralianSuper batting ...

Artificial intelligence to become commonplace at instos

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
About 60% of Northern Trust's Australian-based institutional investment clients believe meaningful adoption of artificial intelligence will occur within the respective businesses over the next two years. Local instos are more bullish on AI than ...

IPS triples funds under administration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
Independent investment and SMSF platform owner Integrated Portfolio Solutions (IPS) tripled its funds under administration over the past three years as it experiences inflows courtesy of advisers and family offices. The platform provider recently passed ...

Advisers struggling with SMSF diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
Only one in five financial advisers consider clients' self-managed superannuation funds to be well diversified. The 2018 SMSF Insights Paper - a collaboration between Investment Trends, BT Financial Group and the SMSF Association - shows that despite ...