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Super trustees need better vigilance: APRA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... look broadly in determining where the potential pool of director candidates is coming from, and to strengthen board performance assessment and follow up actions to ensure that all directors are adding value to board decision making." In its November ...

CommInsure cleared of medical misconduct

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... breaches of financial services law. ASIC found that in previous financial years, some staff at the insurer had key performance indicators which included net loss ratios and income protection terminations rates. These KPIs have since been removed. Deloitte's ...

Fortnum creates professional advice framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Traditional licensee models of measuring adviser performance on sales and revenue are outdated and won't survive the advice industry's transition to professionalism. That is the view of Fortnum Financial Group, which believes its newly-created professional ...

PM Capital LIC director resigns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... decision came about as a means of preserving the company's low management expense ratio; Contact will not charge a performance fee to BKI. BKI explained further: "Millner and Culbert have surrendered all outstanding BKI incentive plan rights, both long-term ...

Statewide Super renews custody deal

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... needs." "NAB's in-region support and face-to-face service model is extremely important for our business. Their digital performance platform StatPro, which provides detailed attribution and risk scenario analysis, will be an important tool for our Investment ...

ANZ inks deal with IT platform

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... with ANZ, adding: "We plan to work with this and other customers in 2017 to improve our product's capabilities and performance." "We have some exciting developments planned for this year to enable more knowledge-based solutions to become mainstream in ...

Space and biblical indexes launched

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... S-Network Global Indexes, is proving there is an abundance of methods and opportunities to measure and track market performance. In the past month, the publisher has launched three indexes including the eVALUEator Biblically Responsible Index (BIBLX) ...

Compliance and cybersecurity keeping bankers awake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... equally important to 67% of Australian bankers. But only 11% of banking executives globally expect their financial performance to improve significantly over the next 12 months. EY banking and capital markets leader for Oceania, Tim Dring, said putting ...

Robo-advice portfolios benefiting from quant factors

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... services not only by servicing this segment of clients remotely, but also by delivering to them an enhanced portfolio performance," he added. Schneider said there are two distinct approaches to building indices: thematic indices, based on investment ...

BTIM builds out multi-asset team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... Emilio Gonzalez said Caputo is a "highly regarded and talented US-based asset manager who has the experience and proven performance track record in delivering and running multi-asset investment products in the US." The new US$10 billion strategy will ...