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Industry funds extend winning streak

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
Industry super funds outperformed retail super funds by 2.7% in the 12 months to 30 June, the latest statistics from APRA reveal. The average industry fund returned 4% over the period versus 1.3% from the average retail fund. The numbers contribute ...

Vulnerable clients easily manipulated: study

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... techniques used by advisers to manipulate critical financial decisions. In light of the study, the University of Sydney Business School's professor Susan Thorp has called for a tightening of regulations to protect 'vulnerable' clients. The major university ...

Retiree expenditure remains modest: study

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... policy. Research commissioned by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and conducted by Monash Business School's Australian Centre of Financial Studies (ACFS), found 80% of retired households report expenditure levels considered ...

Scholarship launched to support female planners

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
Griffith Business School and SunSuper have partnered to introduce a scholarship to assist women in the financial planning industry. Scholarship recipients will receive $5,000 to put towards their studies and will also be offered either work experience ...

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... blockchain to improve its back office processing of trades because that alone would provide a big profit opportunity. NYU Stern School of Business professor David Yermack told a recent audience in Sydney that blockchain or a distributed ledger technology ...

International pension research network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... providing valuable analysis to the global community." CEPAR is collaborating with the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA), and Netspar at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), to launch INPARR. The research ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... climate change and reduced emissions; water scarcity; food security; and health care. With the help of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the City University of New York, UBS is helping PGGM hone its universe of 650-700 companies it believes ...

BTIM adds to global equities boutique

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... retail sector analyst and healthcare sector analyst. He left the group in 2014 to complete an MBA program at London Business School. Crompton joins from Investa property group as an accounting/finance graduate where he has held a number of roles as part ...

Australians overconfident when it comes to income risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... less than 10% chance of lost earnings due to disability or illness. The research conducted in partnership with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, surveyed more than 11,000 people in 11 countries to find out ...

VicSuper chief wins FEAL award

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
VicSuper chief executive Michael Dundon has been named the Fund Executive Association Limited (FEAL) Fund Executive of the Year. The 15th annual Fund Executive of the Year award was presented at a FEAL members' dinner at the Sheraton on the Park in ...