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ClearView director dismissed of charges

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
Criminal charges laid against ClearView Wealth non-executive director David Brown by Papua New Guinea police in August were dismissed in court on Friday. Brown is the chief investment officer for PNG's National Superannuation Fund (NASFUND). On 30 July ...

International equities rule Aussie ETFs: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... advisers, who have been turning to the instrument in a bid to diversify portfolios for clients. Vanguard added that more institutional investors had opted for ETFs in their portfolio recently, with boutique fund managers, family offices and insurance ...

APRA, ASIC welcome Productivity Commission's superannuation report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The regulators overseeing financial services in Australia have welcomed the Productivity Commission's recommendations to grant them additional powers. After they were blasted in the Productivity Commission's final report into the efficiency and competitiveness ...

BlackRock to drop 500 staff

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
About 500 BlackRock staff will be laid off in the coming weeks, the investment house has confirmed. In an internal memo to staff, BlackRock president Rob Kapito said growing market uncertainty and evolving investor preferences are driving the firm's ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The Australian Council of Trade Unions said removing superannuation from industrial relations is "completely unacceptable" In a media release on Thursday the ACTU called out the final report's recommendation to install a best-in-show list of superannuation ...

IRESS lead moves to Chi-X

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Chi-X has snapped up IRESS's head of institutional and online trading services as it builds its team. Adrian Fyffe was appointed to the role of business development executive at Chi-X just before the holidays. He has over 10 years of experience ...

Engagement should be easier: Productivity Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission's final report into the efficiency and competitiveness of superannuation blasted the system for making engagement harder for fund members. The Commission's final report took aim at the superannuation system and government ...

Superannuation a mystery to students: survey

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
A new survey has revealed a "startling knowledge gap" in super, with close to half of Australian students knowing little to nothing about superannuation. Student Super's survey also found that 42% percent of the polled students were unsure about ...

Government needs to rethink CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The government should abandon the Retirement Income Covenant proposed last year, if it can't sufficiently remediate its flaws by the deadline, the Productivity Commission says in the final report. Treasury has already extended the deadline on Comprehensive ...

AFSL super options under the lens

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The final report recommends ASIC should have greater oversight of the superannuation products sitting on the approved product lists of AFSLs. The Productivity Commission calls for all Australian Financial Services Licensees (AFSL) to "immediately" be ...