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AFA defends industry against Labor attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... unreasonable and is doing too much damage to the financial advice profession. Enough is enough. It must stop." "The vast majority of financial advisers always work in the best interests of their clients. The entire profession should not be judged based ...

Super leaders recognised

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... superannuation sector. He is the founding director of Fund Executives Association and served as deputy chair for the majority of his 20-year tenure. Farrugia held the Catholic Super role for 30 years and is a fellow of both the Association of Superannuation ...

Mergers push member positivity

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... members see merging with a larger fund as a positive outcome compared to 11% that see it as negative. Despite this, the majority of members remain indifferent to the outcome. Of the 11% who believe it is a negative outcome are mainly concerned with the ...

Future Fund to hire 70 for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... even as low interest rates affect returns from various asset classes and reflation fears make a comeback. Arndt said majority of the hires are likely to be in Melbourne, where Future Fund is based with the rest in Sydney as required. Earlier in the hearings ...

Female CFPs more invested in financial planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... who are not qualified CFPs (35%). "Female CFP professionals are as likely as their male colleagues to generate the majority of practice revenue (68%) from fee-based investment management. This investment management style indicates that they are primarily ...

Institutional mandates shrink

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... from institutional investors, mostly across local and global equities. IFM Investors was next, winning $2.5 billion. Majority of this was across international equities and alternatives ($1 billion each), with smaller wins in cash, fixed income and Australian ...

Challenger to change annuity pricing

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... billion of annuities in the quarter, which was 165% higher than previous corresponding period's $979 million. Majority of the annuities sales came from domestic fixed-term sales ($1.39 billion) with small contributions from domestic lifetime ($107 ...

Super runs out before death: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
New research claims that the majority of Australians deplete their superannuation savings before death, countering the Retirement Income Review's findings. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) claims that most retirees run out ...

APRA gains traction on superannuation data project

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
... decisions and the outcomes they deliver to all their members." Superannuation funds will be required to submit the majority of the new data from September but APRA is allowing trustees to defer submission of some less critical data for a year, as per ...

COVID-19 spurs robo-advice demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... advisers, citing a lack of trust and varying degrees of competence from humans that fall short of their expectations. The majority of consumers (67%) trust robots more than humans to help manage their personal finances, the global survey of 9000 respondents ...