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Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... management and getting a better result for the end-user by setting up the Thinking Ahead Group with plans to publish a benchmarking report early next year.

Adviser trust improves client outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... qualified and more experienced than their counterparts, according to research by the Beddoes Institute. The data and benchmarking company analysed thousands of client ratings from a survey of over 150 advisers and identified an objective benchmark of ...

TAL's Minto to retire, new CEO named

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... a very strong internal candidate in Brett following a comprehensive assessment process which included a worldwide benchmarking exercise using external consultants," Boyle said. Clark has been a senior executive with TAL for six years and during that ...

CFS awarded 'Best Platform Overall'

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... Navigation and User Interface' and 'Best Product Offering' in the recent Investment Trends December 2013 Platform Benchmarking Report CFS FirstChoice platform was awarded 'Best Master Trust' and 'Best Reporting Tools'. "Supporting advisers in growing ...

Super social media yet to excite members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... the use of social media only using it in very small ways," noted the research that was published in the Rainmaker Benchmarking report. The report stated that the Twitter presence of super funds is so low that they are less influential than most bloggers ...

Advisers see client numbers down: Macquarie survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... adviser have gone down in the last year. The Macquarie Practice Consulting 2013 Financial Planning Best Practice Benchmarking Survey shows that client numbers are down from 185 clients per adviser in 2012 to 153 clients per adviser this year. However ...

APRA releases final SuperStream reporting standards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released the final version of its Reporting Standards SRS 711.0 for SuperStream Benchmarking Measures, relating to the rollover and contribution transactions of super funds. In a letter sent out yesterday to ...

Over 1 million customers breakup with banks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
... followed by 5.2% for ING Direct, 3.8% of St George customers and 2.9% of Bendigo Bank customers. "While tracking and benchmarking the proportion of lost customers is an important measure, it is interesting to note that the potential value of these lost ...

SelfWealth to distribute through BGL

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... within the next four years. Selfwealth expects the growth to strengthen the value of the SW200, SelfWealth's own benchmarking index that allows individuals and SMSF investors to compare their performance between themselves and to the companies in the ...

SelfWealth benchmarking index outperforms ASX200

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
SelfWealth's own index, the SW200 which allows investors to compare the performance of their portfolios directly with other users of the community, has outperformed the ASX200. The SW200 takes the top 200 stocks by weight, from the top 200 portfolios ...