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Super funds to crack 13% by year end, retail leading

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... Australian equities options returned an average of 16.1% to the year ending October. The top performer in the category, ANZ Smart Choice Super reported a juicy 26% return for the period. International equities options delivered 12.9%, with the leader ...

Planners heed SMSF risk warning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
Are you effectively communicating the importance of diversification to your SMSF clients? Delegates have been warned how to avoid triggering the ATOs radar. Aaron Dunn, who is the chief executive of Smarter SMSF, has provided an update on SMSF regulation ...

Tech-powered is empowered: SOAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
With no legal or regulatory barriers to using technology to deliver advice, the Financial Planning Association of Australia is confident the future of your practice is paper-free and prosperous. Earlier this year, the FPA established The Future of the ...

Active fixed income funds review fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... dominating." In a shifting landscape, what sets active managers apart is their ability to customise exposures in a way that smart-beta funds still can't. Tim Macready, chief investment officer at Christian Super is an early adopter of passive strategies ...

Super Fund of the Year named

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... Performance - Fixed Income Hostplus Best Performance - Property Sunsuper Super-savings Best Super Fund for Young Members ANZ Smart Choice Super Best Value Insurance Equip MyFuture & Hannover Life Re of Australasia Best Insurance - High Risk Equip MyFuture ...

Link Group enters UK market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... pensions market, forming a strategic global partnership with a UK-based pension platform. Link said the partnership with Smart Pensions provides it with a strong a credible market entry point into the fast-growing UK pension administration market and ...

Adviser moves show industry upheaval

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... Partners. One went to Australian Unity Personal Finance, one to Industry Fund Services and one to VicSuper. Another AFSL, Smart Solutions, showed 18 advisers registered in July but had ceased by October. Equipsuper went from four aligned advisers to ...

Code monitoring move disappoints industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Assistant Minister Jane Hume announced the government will accelerate its implementation of the Royal Commission's recommendation to establish a single disciplinary body for financial advisers. The move has disappointed ...

Technology coming for advice jobs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Rice Warner says technology is likely to forever alter how people expect to receive and pay for retirement advice. New insights from the research house suggest robo-advice is not the only channel through which the advice industry will be changed by ...

Whitehelm launches infrastructure fund locally

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... retail investors." Late last year, the investment manager partnered with a Dutch pension fund service provider to launch a Smart City Infrastructure Fund with about $400 million in seed funding.