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Australia ranks fifth for financial literacy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... superannuation, insurance and other forms of wealth creation. Australian school students are the second most financially active among the 15 countries in the 2015 PISA study. Students from the Netherlands were the most active.

Retail super fund members increasingly satisfied

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
Superannuation fund members with balances less than $100,000 are showing greater customer satisfaction levels among retail funds as opposed to industry fund competitors. Data from the Roy Morgan Single Source survey shows that from more than 30,000 ...

Labor fights phoenix fraud

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
The Federal Opposition is acting to protect employees and small businesses from phoenix activity through a package of proposed reforms. The package will see the granting of new enforcement tools for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

GROW Super opens for business

ALEX DUNNIN, STEPHEN FAY  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... Another point of difference is that rather than utilising an underlying ETF or indexed strategy, GROW Super will use an active strategy implemented through the global investment manager Dimensional Fund Advisors. GROW Super's MySuper fees at 1.33% are ...

AFA and ANZ begin search for 2017 Rising Star

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers and ANZ are on the hunt for the 13th Rising Star of the Year. Nominations for the award are now open to advisers with four years' experience or less in delivering quality financial advice, actively contributing ...

Top super chief executive named ACSI president

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... role in ACSI's development. As president, Gerard has been a passionate champion of the role of superannuation funds as active owners of the companies in which they invest," Davidson said. Silk said he is looking forward to having an increased role in ...

Rising yields benefit active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
Rising yields combatting inflationary pressures are conducive to active bond managers outperforming passive strategies, according to an expert investment manager. IOOF portfolio manager of fixed income Osvaldo Acosta said in this environment, active ...

SSGA ramps tech exposure post-Trump

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... technology companies in its Global Equity Fund, even if said exposure still trails the cap-weighted index. SSGA global active quantitative equities chief investment officer Olivia Engel said the tech companies it's focusing on are generally mature, with ...

Senior ATO official tangled in $165m fraud scandal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
One of the Australian Taxation Office's most senior and long-serving officials is expected to be charged in relation to an Australian Federal Police investigation into an alleged $165 million tax evasion syndicate. Deputy tax commissioner Michael Cranston ...

TH Real Estate expands Australian operations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
Global real estate investment manager TH Real Estate is expanding its Australian footprint by creating a new investment analyst role. Based in Sydney, Lisa Peng joins as an investment analyst responsible for research and financial analysis across the ...