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Trust ahead of returns for member retention

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
Members who have changed jobs since joining Equip have for the first time ranked trust ahead of investment returns as the reason for sticking with the fund. In Equip's 2016 member survey conducted by CoreData, just over a third of these 730 members ...

Swedish pension giant commits to total decarbonisation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
One of Sweden's largest pension funds has made the biggest single commitment to low carbon investing by an institutional investor. In order to reduce its exposure to climate risk, The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, known as AP4, has allocated ...

Future Generation donates $4.71m to charity

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... FGX's donation for 2015, we aim to continually grow the funding for both FGX and FGG charities with each passing year. "Our big vision is to become the second biggest private sector funder in the Australian non-profit sector after the Paul Ramsay Fou ...

China ready to dominate: Nikko AM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... around 6% to 6.5%, even if it has slowed, "makes it pretty good compared to the rest of the world," Mann added. "You've got the big story of the upper-middle class: normal people who want to go on holidays overseas, who are buying better-quality food ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
Australia business confidence Taken "right amidst the heightened uncertainty around the Brexit referendum, and ahead of the Australian Federal election," the National Australia Bank's (NAB) business survey showed business confidence rose to a higher ...

Nationals senator not giving up on life insurance investigation

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... not paying." Williams added that this also includes issues with default life insurance plans within superannuation: "I have big concerns that we have four or five million Australians with life insurance in their super and they don't even know they have ...

Aussie investors list operational alpha among top priorities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
The global head of Bloomberg Asset and Investment Manager believes Australian investors are seeking both new and non-traditional asset classes as a priority to generate income and alpha increases. Recently appointed Bloomberg AIM global head Steve Ioannou ...

AustralianSuper hits the $100bn mark

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
AustralianSuper's retirement funds under management have reached $100 billion for the first time. Australia's largest super fund attributed this to new members and reduced costs. Furthermore, the fund's scale has allowed it greater direct investment ...

ClearView adds annuities to wrap

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
Challenger and CommInsure annuities have been added to ClearView Wealth's wrap platform. Selected annuities from both providers have been available to advisers using the platfom from 1 July. Changes driven by feedback from advisers have also been made ...

Elders transformation brings new light to the group

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
Dealer group Elders Financial Planning (Elders) has emerged from a six month transformation, a realignment the group hopes will attract more advisers to the Elders network. A joint venture company (Elders 49%, ANZ 51%), Elders Group have one the largest ...