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IQ Group appoints principal consultant

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... to that. He has also held positions at Sales Advantage Marketing and CPM Australia. "Craig has been with IQ Group for a third of its 15 year history and, as a trusted advisor, is a strong champion of our customer centred culture," said IQ Group chief ...

United approach to super fund disclosure: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... submissions to the draft legislation closed on January 20. AVCAL said the coordinated initiative between Treasury, ASIC, APRA and third-party super fund administrators would mitigate current uncertainty around the risk of public disclosure of confidential ...

Australians putting off retirement planning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Nearly a third of the population aged 18 to 64 consider retirement too far away to plan for, according to a Roy Morgan survey of 50,000 people. This lack of planning and engagement in the process is likely to contribute to less-than-optimum superannuation ...

Report highlights sea-change in asset owner operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Large institutions are reshaping the way they manage their assets, preferring fewer, but deeper external manager relationships and focussing more on the long-term, according to a BNP Paribas Securities Services report. The report said there was a move ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... poorly are "demographic disasters". Economies in this second group include Japan, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Germany. A third group - "demographic deviants" - have favourable population pyramids but relatively weak institutions. This set has the most ...

Super switches estimated at $35 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2016
A sample from more than 100,000 Australians with superannuation shows about one-third were prepared to change their super fund without financial advice during the past three years. From the selection of 2002 respondents interviewed as part of the Roy ...

NZ Super Fund invests in affordable housing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... standalone properties. Around half of the properties developed will be priced under Auckland's median house cost; another third will be priced "at $550,000 or below under the Hobsonville Point affordable homes programme," according to NZ Super Fund's ...

Spire Copper Rock small cap fund added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... access to global investment opportunities, which have previously only been available to institutional investors. This is the third fund available in the Spire Global Investment Series.

AFA winner highlights retirement fears

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers' 2015 Adviser of the Year has said many of his clients are "afraid" of retirement, and not just because of financial concerns. Speaking at a Zurich event in Sydney, The Retirement Advice Centre retirement adviser ...

More CBA-aligned advisers under scrutiny

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... they will be compensated in a process overseen by KordaMentha Forensic," an ASIC statement said. KordaMentha Forensic's third report, the Compliance Report, is expected in 2016 and is auditing whether CFPL and FWL have complied with their additional ...