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Industry funds lead website experience

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
Industry superannuation funds are providing members a better website experience than retail funds but retail wins when it comes to retirement calculators, the latest digital engagement study finds. IQ Group's fifth annual study on digital engagement ...

UBS launches emerging market fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
UBS Asset Management launched an emerging markets equity fund, providing Australian investors with an offshore avenue to diversify their portfolio. The UBS Emerging Markets Equity Fund - which is the firm's third global equity offering - offers ...

SelectingSuper honours super industry leaders

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
A $37 billion industry superannuation fund reclaimed its position as fund of the year at the annual Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards in Melbourne this morning. Hostplus was crowned fund of the year. It was one of five awards for the industry fund, including ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
In a way, you know, I know, the world knows already about the case of the slowdown in global growth. The Organisations for Economic Development and Cooperation's (OECD) recently-released the OECD Economic Outlook and Interim Economic Outlook report ...

Philanthropic foundation names new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
As the 2018 FPA Professionals Congress begins today in Sydney, the association's philanthropic arm is welcoming a new chair. The new Future2 Foundation chair is Petra Churcher. She was previously chair of the Financial Planning Association's South Australian ...

Government allows domestic violence victims early super access

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
Domestic violence victims will get early access to their superannuation. Delivering the Women's Economic Security Statement at the National Press Club today, Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations and Minister for Women, Kelly O'Dwyer announced ...

Inside Bennelong and its UK engine room

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
Thirteen months on from securing its first boutique partners, the UK business of Bennelong Funds Management is ready to scale up. But will Brexit get in the way? Speaking to Financial Standard in London recently, BennBridge chief operating officer Greg ...

Super fund apologises for admin error

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
An $80 billion superannuation fund admitted on Friday to an administrative error affecting 346 of its members. Following QSuper's investigation of more than 226,000 current and former defined benefit accounts, it was found that 246 members were ...

Chief economist update: The money is one Fed rate hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
The tug-o-war between the bulls and the bears continues on Wall Street as 2018 draws to a close. Whether this state of affairs - or better yet, resolved one way of another (up or down) - depends primarily on the end game of the on-going trade stoush ...

Code of ethics still the main game: FPA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
Financial Planning Association of Australia head of policy and standards Ben Marshan said the FASEA-led Code of Ethics remains the biggest game changer to the advice industry. Speaking at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum on ...