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Super funds must address climate risk: Market Forces

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... extent that those risks may intersect with the financial interests of a beneficiary of a superannuation fund." Making reference to the provisions of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act, they continued: "it is incumbent upon a trustee director ...

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... (due to pay indexation) that would, in turn, lead to even lower inflation. The text of his speech did not contain any reference to the Australian dollar - the recent appreciation of which would add to the challenge for the RBA in "delivering Australians ...

Labor unyielding on banking Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... financial services Royal Commission - will not just scrutinise the banks. The Royal Commission would have the terms of reference to deal with the entirety of the financial services sector - it would not exclude industry funds for example, he said. Bowen ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... governor Guy Debelle snuffed hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash rate setting ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... would soon announce forward guidance on tapering its QE programme, at the very least. But although the ECB dropped its reference to further interest rate cuts "if warranted", it did not provide any indication as to the timing of QE exit. This is because ...

FSU calls out NAB for lack of standards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... appropriate means by which to complete or witness Beneficiary Nomination forms provided in the licensee standards. "With a Reference Checking and Information Sharing protocol now in place for planners and proposed to commence from 1 July for all employees ...

Westpac to review history of new applicants

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... escaping detection, with the background checks able to go back up to five years. "Each bank has extensive, yet different, reference checking processes as part of hiring staff; so this will create more consistency in practices and mean anyone who does ...

Weaker returns for SMSFs: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... MySuper products in the 12 months to April, according to Rainmaker's SuperGuard 360 SMSF performance index. The SG360 SMSF reference index generated a return of 10.3%, slightly underperforming the default MySuper index of 11.1%. Lower returns were driven ...

Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Quantitative analysis can play a role in bottom-up active management despite its detractors, according to Robeco Boston Partners senior analyst Daniel Farren. Speaking to Financial Standard, Farren referenced the "three circles" philosophy Boston Partners ...

AI to influence consumer trust: Medcraft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association conference in Sydney this morning. Addressing delegates, Medcraft made reference to the level of trust in institutions being at record lows, and how increased availability and use of personal data will ...