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Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... entrants towards selecting a superannuation fund from a list of 10 top performing funds. According to the ACTU the change would block working people from being represented in superannuation, and deliver power to the industry regulators - who it said ...

Sahota's fund makes first close

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... Superannuation and Retirement Fund, which made a cornerstone investment in the fund. ACRF chief investment officer Michael Block said: "[We are] always looking to diversify its portfolio so that it is safer and more robust in volatile investment markets. ...

CBA and Alipay to bring in Chinese shoppers

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
Commonwealth Bank has started accepting Alipay on its EFTPOS devices in a bid to attract Chinese shoppers who last year spent $10.9 billion in Australia. This makes CBA the first of the big four banks to accept Alipay in Australia, ahead of NAB which ...

Super admin provider adds chief information officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
The director of Westpac's security risk and culture program has joined an ASX-listed provider of superannuation administration and trustee services. Anne Coull has been appointed chief information officer at OneVue. The group said the appointment reflects ...

AFCA receives 500 super complaints in first month

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... of complaints each. But according to the authority's chief executive and chief ombudsman David Locke, the new kid on the block's tough first month met expectations. "This number of calls and complaints is on par with what we were expecting," Locke said. ...

Blockchain comes to managed funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
A global funds network used by 95% of Australian platforms will migrate its entire network to blockchain in May 2019. Calastone expects its new distributed market infrastructure (DMI) to dramatically improve the infrastructure for trading and reporting ...

New degree tackles adviser education standards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... with industry, and is structured to enable students to combine full-time work and study. Every subject will be delivered in block mode over two non-consecutive weekends, consolidated by an additional online component, he said. In addition to the Masters ...

Retirement planning gets a recession check

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... months as they see markets peaking. Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund chief investment officer Michael Block says the $8.5 billion fund trimmed equity allocations to bring in more bonds. The fund's equity exposures were brought ...

Blockchain can power internal systems: Digital Asset

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
While the focus of the blockchain industry debate is its usage cross platforms, the real potential can actually be in managing internal systems, said the chief executive of the company behind ASX's new blockchain system. Speaking at a SIBOS session ...

CBA ramps up blockchain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Commonwealth Bank is close to completing more blockchain projects, after it delivered the world's first blockchain bond with World Bank in August. Speaking at SIBOS, Sophie Gilder who is CBA's head of experimentation and commercialisation for ...