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PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... Smith's job. He says that his most memorable experience as a chief executive was the global financial crisis. "It really was pretty challenging because a lot of members realised that they were less risk tolerant that they thought. Before the correction ...

Deloitte super plan could save budget $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... Deloitte statement said. Deloitte said it is a myth that super concessions cost more than the pension but "the costs are still pretty big." "If our super concessions cost lots but achieve relatively little, then Australians are spending a fortune on ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... Houlihan says it has in many ways made the job easier. "If you start in 1988 with the award superannuation system, super was pretty easy. There wasn't a lot to it. Prior to '87 the governance of superannuation was done within one very small part of the ...

Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... than it is. We do have the advantage of being in the same time zone, there is a strong argument - I've always found it pretty convincing - that technology has annihilated longitudinal distance if not latitudinal distance if you're in the same time zone ...

Super and TPD definitions in the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... Jocelyn Furlan, said the superannuation landscape has changed completely "and yet group insurance has remained remarkably pretty much the same." "I think now is a really good time for the industry to think about whether we need to rethink the insurance ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... the impact on bond markets, Leech said that with the exception of the Taper Tantrum, long-term US Treasuries have been "a pretty good diversifier to risk." "They help provide a portfolio balance and actually provided positive returns when other sectors ...

PROFILE: BlackRock head of corporate governance Pru Bennett

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... given the way annual general meeting reports work, most of them are done all at the same time each year, so it creates a pretty significant workload if you don't have the technology to accommodate that. And, of course, because that changed, the business ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... so far without a major slump in overall economic activity." And the good Gov Glenn is optimistic that, "There is still a pretty good chance that we will come out of this episode fairly well, and much better than we came out of previous episodes of this ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... and these platforms allow them to invest smaller amounts, frequently, at low transaction costs. Ten years ago CommSec was pretty much all there was and you were happy to fork out $20 for brokerage, but no one wants to do that anymore." Boles believes ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... the government to declare that infrastructure investment is a priority "but we need something a bit more tangible than pretty pictures and catchy slogans."