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Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... project it has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research, which was conducted in association with IFS Insurance Solutions, looks at the claims experience of 13 industry super funds relating to death claims due to ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has rejected the Financial Services Council's (FSC) proposal to establish a statutory, independent board to oversee advice, saying that there was no need for further regulation, with the mooted board simply "reinventing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its Financial Stability Review. The Housing Industry Association (HIA)-Cordell Construction Outlook Breakfast Series features speeches from Westpac chief economist Bill Evans, Cordell ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... public along with others advocating for a co-regulated model between ASIC and the associations. The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) argued that a co-regulatory approach "would allow professional associations to drive professionalism ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... manufacturing data due to be released on Tuesday hit investor sentiment. Homebuilder stocks fell sharply after the National Association of Realtors said existing-home sales fell 1.8 per cent in August, following four straight months of gains. LONDON ...

ASFA releases 'first of its kind' best practice paper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has developed an investment management best practice paper, for use only by its members. According to ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos, the paper is the first of its kind not to have been ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... crying now? The HK Stock Exchange is - no "open sesame" and the treasures that it brings for it. The International Bar Association said that the HKSE's decision to reject Alibaba's listing "wiped out almost US$300m in anticipated advisory fees for Hong ...

Hedge fund allocators pick unstable funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... Addressing representatives of the Australian and global hedge fund industry at the recent Alternative Investment Management Association's annual Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney, Haydon said the biggest and least well charted problem in the industry is the ...

SMSF borrowers should be forced to seek advice: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... trustees who want to enter into a limited recourse borrowing arrangement should be forced to seek financial advice, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) said. In its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), the organisation said it was ...

How to win family office mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... family office executives has said. Addressing an audience of fund managers at the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)'s Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney yesterday, four prominent family office professionals described what they look for in ...