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Industry bodies respond to RG97 review

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... aggregating ongoing fees, such as administration and investment fees, and indirect costs. Comparatively, managed investment products do a slightly better job of separating transaction or activity-dependent costs from ongoing fees and costs. Super funds ...

Grandfathered commission debate an overreaction: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... types of commissions. He included life insurance and other forms of trail commissions - not just super and investment products," Anderson said. Investment Trends research has also suggested that trail commissions of this kind only contribute to an average ...

ASIC unveils RG97 review

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... of products on platforms - fee and cost impacts occur at both the level of the platform itself, and within investment products, the report said. Consumers and in most cases, their advisers need to appreciate the "double layer of fee impact and how to ...

VanEck ETF receives ethical tick

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... director and head of Asia Pacific Arian Neiron said: "We believe demand for investing in sustainable, transparent investment products will continue to rise in favour of traditional investment solutions as investors prioritise ESG issues in their decision ...

SSGA appoints head of retirement solutions

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... consultant at NSP Buck. In this newly-created role, Shead will build out a team tasked with developing retirement investment products, working alongside super funds and finanical advisers. "As more Australian super fund members transition from accumulating ...

AMP slides off ASX top 20

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... packaging manufacturer Amcor. The wealth giant has denied the index-change will impact its inflows from indexed investment products. "The change is expected to have minimal impact on investment flows from indexed funds given these funds typically track ...

Spaceship looks outside of superannuation

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
... Spaceship, which at last count managed about $198 million of millennial superannuation, is branching out into investment products with two new launches. The company quietly rolled out two low-fee funds in April under the Spaceship Voyager brand. The ...

US regulator to extend fiduciary rule

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... investment advisers and brokers while preserving access to a variety of types of advice relationships and investment products. The new proposals are called Regulation Best Interest. At present, though only as of recently, investment advisers must put ...

Kim Ivey launches new boutique

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... Ivey, is launching a new boutique and building out its investment team. LSL Partners will develop alternative investment products focusing on the Asian region. Its first product, the Fury Fund, is a long/short Asian equity absolute return fund with an ...

Financial Standard launches Good Investment Guide, Investment Leadership Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... finance professionals. The guide features a primer on the managed funds industry, an explanation of the various investment products now available to the market and information on leading Australian investment managers, as featured in the 2018 Financial ...