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Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
Superannuation funds with significant levels of female leadership again outperformed funds dominated by men, and have increased their likelihood of doing so, Rainmaker research reveals. Rainmaker assessed 66 super funds to derive a W-index score and ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Milliman practice leader Wade Matterson thinks the Australian wealth industry should be called to account for creating a raft of "very cheap, generic retirement income products based on a lot of averages." Matterson explained that Milliman analyses ...

Bravura rolls out DB super functionality

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Bravura Solutions' Sonata platform will now allow defined benefit plans to be administered for its super fund clients. The update also includes Bravura's messaging product for SuperStream, Babel, which combined with Sonata provides an automated, end-to-end ...

AMP head of retail sales departs

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
AMP's head of retail sales is departing following a restructure of the sales team last year. Stephen Craig joined AMP in 2008 as head of retail sales and marketing; he then became acting director, contemporary wealth management, head of goals-based ...

Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
Adopting multiple annuities could mean the difference between living comfortably or facing a massive shortfall in retirement, according to a retirement planning expert. David Babbel, a retirement strategy expert and professor from the University of ...

Private wealth platform appoints ASX-listed corporate adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A blockchain-based private wealth platform that created China's first robo-advice solution appointed an ASX-listed corporate advisory firm for its initial coin offering (ICO). Bankorus, which now advises more than 200,000 high-net-worth investors representing ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A global institution is placing $225 million with Aviva Investors to be the asset manager's cornerstone investor for its latest fund launch in Australia. Last month Aviva Investors chief executive Euan Munro revealed the firm, via its new mandate win ...

Fundraise like a RockStar

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
Lend me your ears. The Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) 'Who Wants to be a RockStar' is back and it promises to be bigger than ever. What started in 2006 as a slightly unconventional way to give back to the community has now turned into ...

Crypto assets rewrite estate planning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
Complex cryptocurrency assets are driving financial advisers to reconsider their clients' digital lives and the impact this has on estate planning. Australian Unity Trustees national manager, estate planning, Anna Hacker describes cryptocurrency as ...

Longreach inks deal with global data provider

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
Longreach Alternatives, the retail-focused alternatives manager launched by the former head of K2 Advisors Samuel Mann, formed a new partnership with a data provider to enhance its global quantitative alpha strategies. Under the partnership, Longreach ...