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New initiatives ready advisers for the future

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... initiative will also provide advisers with easy to understand, curated content outlining recent regulatory changes and other major events in the advice sector, building on the technical content already prepared by wealthdigital. Aged Care Gurus has also ...

Why indexing is big business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... trillion of assets benchmarked against its indices - 81% is equity and the remainder in fixed income. S&P Dow Jones, also a major player in equity indices, has about US$13.7 trillion benchmarked. MSCI, which purely operates in equity indexing, has about ...

Industry Super Australia chair steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... numerous directorships. Looking to the future, Collins said agribusiness was a rapidly growing asset class that will become a major investment vehicle for industry super funds. He said it is "entirely possible" for the industry funds to have, in aggregate ...

Global manager wins super fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
A global manager has won a $200 million custom mandate in global equities from a superannuation fund. Parametric Australia has created a factor-based portfolio solution that captures the super fund's views around risks in global stock markets with a ...

MLC Life restructures team, ramps up transformation ambitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
MLC Life Insurance announced major changes to its innovation and transformation teams with three senior hires and a restructure of its executive lineup. In a bid to ramp up its technology transformation, the life insurer made three new appointments ...

FASEA exam is not fair: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... Planning Association of Australia and the SMSF Association have all flagged FASEA's recognition of prior learning as a major talking point of the blueprint. Essentially each industry body wants further detail on how the recognition of prior learning ...

Investment manager chair retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
The chairman at one of Australia's largest institutional investors, and a long-time industry superannuation fund advocate, will retire next week. IFM Investors chair Garry Weaven will leave his role at the firm's board meeting on December 4, and ...

Retirees happier as they get older: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
Latest research reveals retirees become much happier as they move through their post-paid work life. A State Super research survey titled Beyond Paid Work shows 82% of the fund's retirees have positive feelings about life in retirement, and highlights ...

ANZ lambasted for breach reporting delays

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
ANZ is the slowest and an "outlier" among the major banks to report significant breaches, the Royal Commission heard this morning. ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott couldn't justify why the bank took 213 days to report significant breaches (despite ...

Gender split sees new investment industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... association will appoint an investor as its chair. Moving into the top role will be HESTA general manager, unlisted assets, Andrew Major. He is currently AVCAL's deputy chair and will replace outgoing chair Cameron Blanks.