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Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... news as I type. My spreadsheet shows that, in the first four months of 2018, our legal tender is tendering less against all major currencies: down 3.5% against the US$; down 4.1% on the euro; down 6.3% against the yen; down 5.2% versus the pound; down ...

Retail unit trusts leaking FUM

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... build on our market leading iShares ETF platform," Zaika said. The Rainmaker study found that ASX's mFunds failed to attract major FUM.

Retirement income expert joins SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... and mergers and acquisition law. In July 2004 he joined ASIC serving as deputy chair for the next five years. He chaired a major review of Australia's superannuation system (Cooper Review) in 2009 and a year later became the chair of retirement income ...

"Collegiality" hinders appointments of female executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
When selecting new board members, a majority (66.7%) of ASX 200 company boards tend to gravitate towards candidates whom they know - a situation which hinders the selection of female employees to male-dominated boards, according to a new survey from ...

Kina expands IRESS relationship

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
A Papua New Guinean bank and wealth management firm is expanding the implementation of an IRESS fund administration platform. Kina Securities, a $4.3 billion fund administrator, will use IRESS' Acurity Online platform to allow its 700,000 PNG members ...

Government to increase SMSF member limit

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
The Federal Government announced it will expand the maximum number of self-managed superannuation fund members from four to six - a proposal welcomed by the SMSF Association. Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer said the change will ...

Water risk infiltrates agriculture portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... Australia, the agriculture industry has attracted more than $1.6 billion from superannuation funds, and caught the eye of major Canadian and US pension funds which have ploughed more than $1 billion to the sector since 2007. Tim Lee, a partner of the ...

Smaller super funds lead Roy Morgan rankings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
An industry super fund with $8.1 billion in funds under management has topped the Roy Morgan Superannuation Satisfaction Report for the seventh month in a row. Tasplan, the industry superfund with 145,000 members, has again topped the Roy Morgan monthly ...

Royal Commission bad for super: Switzer

ALEX BURKE, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... financial institutions play fair." "The biggest annoyance about all this is that I've been writing and giving out my views on major newspapers and websites since 1985, very few finance ministers or Treasurers have ever got serious about the finance sector," ...

Advisers react to Royal Commission revelations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... commission over the last two weeks have unfortunately not been surprising. We were well aware of the problems inside the major banks and financial institutions. As the bulk of the bad news has been centred around the larger institutions I think the revelations ...