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Pension and retirement strategies a global problem

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... and strategy is developed. This is one of several key themes arising from global research released by EY today. About one-third of 200 policymakers, pension industry executives and corporate employers from across the world have said they lack a defined ...

Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
The Wall Street Journal's Financial Inclusion Challenge, supported by the MetLife Foundation, has been recognised by The Asia Society in Hong Kong. The Challenge is a global project launched in Asia to recognise innovative, sustainable, scalable strategies ...

Monash absolute return fund goes retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
The Monash Absolute Investment Fund will be available to retail investors, following the manager's partnership with a third party distribution firm. Winston Capital Partners will distribute Monash Investors' fund to investors seeking exposure to an ...

Pressure mounts on Cbus in Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Cbus chief executive David Atkin has until Friday to respond to damning allegations in the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption. On Monday Counsel Assisting the Commission made submissions to its inquiry on Cbus, alleging the ...

Retirement income is not one-size-fits-all

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... research and wealth management, Recep III Peker, said in gauging Australian's appetite for a default retirement option, a third of super members would switch funds if guaranteed a drawdown income for the rest of their lives.

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... for two years with Schroders before moving up to Sydney for another three. But because by 2011 he was now married with a third child on the way, he decided he wanted to move back to Melbourne, where his "support network" was. "Schroders was very good ...

Managers pressured by more demanding clients

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Australian asset managers are under pressure to develop customised solutions for institutional clients who are shifting portfolio management in-house at an ever increasing rate, a new report by State Street has found. Almost three quarters of asset ...

Planners continue insurer switches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... also found that planners are likely to continue their level of insurer switching over the next 12 months. More than one-third of planners have stopped using at least one insurer in the past year. Yet on average, planners are now using 3.9 insurers each ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... CHAFTA is in place. Australia is well positioned. Our $2.5 trillion pool of managed funds is the largest in Asia and the third largest in the world. Our fund managers are highly skilled, competitive and efficient. This comparative advantage has the potential ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... crisis would trigger a global recession sent investors to the relative safety of the U.S. currency and Treasuries in the third quarter, dragging equity markets in 37 of the 45 countries in the MSCI All-Country World Index into bear markets, or declines ...