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VicSuper updates digital advice offering

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
A refreshed user interface, a new coach avatar and new retirement planning options have been rolled out to VicSuper members after the fund updated its Beeline digital guidance and advice tool. The update means VicSuper members now have a new mix of ...

Industry funds dominate member satisfaction

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
Only two retail super funds made the top 10 in a Roy Morgan list that measured how satisfied members felt with their fund's financial performance. The two retail funds to make the list were Asgard and Macquarie and they were below the average satisfaction ...

LICs defy franking credit refund changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... on year. Eleven new LICs launched over the period, bringing the total to 111. In terms of FUM size, AFIC ($7.4bn) held the top spot followed by Argo ($5.7bn) and Milton ($3bn).

Ethical investments top mandate appointments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... significant growth, rising 45%. Infrastructure (up 23%), international property (up 21%) and hedge funds (up 19%) rounded out the top five. Allocations to alternatives also grew to now account for close to half of all new mandate appointments at 44%. ...

Watermark pulls out of global equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... not achieved the results the manager had hoped for, he said. "In low or zero beta strategies, an investor needs to be at the top of his or her game to succeed. In hindsight, it was too ambitious of us to expect that we could be at the top of our game ...

Global multi-boutique eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... business development [for current boutiques]," iM's newly-appointed chief executive Jose Castellano said. "Australia is top of the list in expanding our global coverage," Castellano said. "We have been assessing who are the managers in the same space ...

Industry fund chief executive moves to life insurer

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
The chief executive of an $8 billion industry fund is leaving to take the top job at a life insurer. Statewide Super chief executive Richard Nunn will join MetLife as its next chief executive on May 1, leaving the super fund at the end of February. ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... said. The fund won't say what other institutional mandates it has won, but it has another $600 million in commitments on top of $1.4 billion currently deployed. Even though retail is close to $500 million of its total assets under management, Coote ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... research report (released 16 January 2019), predicting that: "Australian house prices would decline a further 5% this year, on top of a 6.7% decline from the peak so far, making Australian housing the worst performer out of 24 countries for the second ...

Investors rage coup against Aurora

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Investors in the troubled Aurora Absolute Return Fund have voted to boot Aurora Funds Management as the responsible entity. However, Aurora contests the validity of this vote. The challenger is Primary Securities, backed by some investors of the fund ...