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Vanguard recruits former industry fund CIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... year after three-and-a-half years, succeeded by former State Street Global Advisors business development manager, institutional sales vice president Chris Artis. Artis had previously served as a consultant to MIESF to conduct a review of its interest-bearing ...

easyMarkets launches SMSF tool, appoints MD

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Growing SMSF investor demand for institutional-grade investment training has led a global markets brokerage to launch a new tool. The SMSF Active Traders Group, operated by easyMarkets, equips SMSF trusses with strategies, methodologies and the risk ...

Effective data management key to engagement: ISWG

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
The Insurance in Superannuation Working Group is seeking to enhance member insurance outcomes by improving access to timely and relevant information. In its latest discussion paper the group called on superannuation funds to develop an insurance data ...

Direct life insurance review underway: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
A major review investigating why some consumers are worse off from purchasing life insurance via direct channels is underway. ASIC senior executive leader and regional commissioner, Michael Saadat, told the FSC Leaders Summit this week that the corporate ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has flagged expanding the fund's internal investment team to manage more than half of its rapidly growing asset base. Australia's largest superannuation fund has previously said it is aiming to manage between ...

O'Dwyer names one-stop-shop dispute resolution lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
A former RBA governor will spearhead the merger of three financial and superannuation dispute resolution bodies into a one-stop-shop. Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer told the FSC Leaders Summit yesterday that Malcolm Edey will ...

Suncorp Tower takeover denied by competition watchdog

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
Fears that "substantially lessened" competition in New Zealand's personal insurance market would result from Suncorp's takeover of Tower has led to the New Zealand Commerce Commission denying the proposed merger. In a statement commission chairman Mark ...

NAB collaborates on responsible investment bond

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... manager alongside UBS, while the debt was rated by Moody's as Aa2 (Stable). NAB chief customer officer corporate and institutional banking Mike Baird said the bond demonstrates a critical step forward for the responsible investments market and shows ...

APRA cuts red tape on superannuation transfers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
APRA is reducing the barriers for super funds to transfer members and merge or wind up products following industry consultation. The regulator's Prudential Practice Guide SPG 227 Successor Fund Transfers and Wind-ups (SPG 227) widens the definition ...

Royal Commission unnecessary: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
A Royal Commission into the financial services sector is unnecessary given the amount of substantial reforms and remediation the industry has already undertaken, the Financial Services Council said. In responding to Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen's push ...