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UniSuper appoints legal specialists

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... Hughes said. "This new approach recognises UniSuper's unique insourcing business model, and enables us to address the full spectrum of investment management, financial advice and administration risks arising from the extensive in-house services which ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... McNab, "but the reality is that there are very different risk/return and liquidity profiles across the 'alternatives' spectrum." To illustrate, McNab points at private equity and hedge funds. At one end, private equity is considered high-risk, high-return ...

Griffith, FPA launch academic advice journal

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... published online twice a year, in September and March, and will include six peer-reviewed academic articles covering the full spectrum of the financial planning industry. "The journal is a key initiative at a crucial time for the industry, and will provide ...

Philo in growth mode after losing key mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... And then you build something that is precisely tailored to their requirements. "If you look at the sort of evolutionary spectrum of managed accounts, we're way out on the right hand side."

Hard landing in China could trip Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... accounting firms in Sydney. "Construction has taken up, and that's helping drive employment and expenditure across the retail spectrum. It has helped rebalance the economy," Fenton said. "The question is: where do we go from here? What happens if we ...

MTAA launches transition to retirement investment option

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... exposure to private equity and that it sits between MTAA Super existing conservative and balanced options on the risk/return spectrum.

Govt should support pensioner reverse mortgage access: CIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... age pension as well as reducing poverty among pensioners," noted the CIS. Meanwhile, at the other end of the political spectrum, the protest group Getup has released a video on YouTube that has already been viewed 48,400 times featuring a 10 year old ...

Changes to super tax needed: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... sustainable for all Australians. AIST will submit to the federal government's Tax Discussion Paper by examining "the full spectrum of taxes in the accumulation and post-retirement phase, with a view towards a less-complex tax regime." AIST chief executive ...

Industry, government respond to Trowbridge report

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... what Trowbridge described at the 2015 FSC Life Insurance Conference as one of the "extreme" ends of the "ideological" spectrum on this issue - noted its disappointment at Trowbridge's refusal to consider a completely commission-free system in his report. ...

Wealth managers need to be 'service-oriented'

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... multiple digital channels. "We believe that the industry has yet to address the challenge of redefining the complete spectrum of their value propositions, including everything from the product and service offering to the use of digital channels and the ...