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New portal advances SMSF advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Financial advisers can now manage the entire needs of SMSF clients through a new purpose built, cloud-based solution. Queensland-based financial services firm Quill Group has developed a new low-cost portal to enable advisers to establish a new SMSF ...

Open data carries privacy risk: ABA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Open data used by banks and fintechs to innovate and cross-sell products must be underpinned by robust regulation that protects the consumers, otherwise they risk major privacy breaches, according to the Australian Bankers' Association. Educating customers ...

ClearView slams APL standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Listed financial advice firm ClearView criticised the Financial Services Council's life insurance approved product list draft standard as superficial and ineffectual, saying it will only allow sub-par practices to continue. ClearView managing director ...

Australian Ethical Super leads new green bond

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Australian Ethical Super is a cornerstone investor in a new $100 million green bond issued by the Investa Commercial Property Fund. Demand for the oversubscribed issuance was strong among both "green" and general debt investors, with the Clean Energy ...

First State Super wins government lease

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... government entered into a binding agreement with the consortium, Australian Registry Investments (ARI), comprising 80% institutional investors (which includes First State Super and Hastings) and a 20% stake held by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group's ...

MDA firm hires former Pillar chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
Listed managed discretionary account company Managed Accounts Holdings Limited (MGP) added a former Pillar chief executive to its board with the aim of growing its retail superannuation sector. Peter Brook served as Pillar's managing director and chief ...

Sovereign wealth fund growth steady

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... one source," Sy explained. "As such, we may see sovereign wealth funds increasingly become as diversified as other institutional investor classes in the range, scope and ambition of their investment." The growth demonstrated in the 2017 report contrasts ...

Pension fund embraces managed accounts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
Asset managers experienced in real assets are being sought by the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund to manage a separately managed account comprising global private equity, infrastructure and real estate investments. The SMA would hold global ...

Industry funds in merger talks

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
Two industry superannuation funds have signed a heads of agreement, giving in principle support for a merger. Kinetic Super, which manages $3 billion in retirement savings and operates for the benefit of more than 270,000 members, and Sunsuper, which ...

Super wealth reaches record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
The amount of wealth Australians hold in superannuation is climbing to a record high, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. At the end of December 2016, Australians held $2.6 trillion of household net worth in superannuation ...