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Complaints abound during COVID-19: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... and finance complaints, 1070 general insurance complaints, and 610 superannuation complaints. Untersteiner said the majority of the complaints have been about delays in early release of superannuation, loan break costs, disputed transactions, requests ...

Ignorance isn't bliss in super: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
The majority of Australians believed their super fund would protect their retirement savings in the event of a market downturn, according to new research coming out of Russell Investments. Surveying more than 3000 Australians in January this year, the ...

Fund pulls mandate, alters pandemic definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... to real estate. As at 31 March 2020, the AMP Capital managed option had a 4.8% allocation to real estate with the majority of the portfolio in equities (62.8%) and fixed interest (24.9%). QSuper indicated a higher range of allocation to real estate at ...

Performance analyst jobs hold steady in COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... the role and the size of the fund." Kaizen noted that in Melbourne, NAB Asset Services continues to produce the vast majority of performance analysts, who have progressed into senior roles to date.

Technical Services Forum: Testing risk tolerance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... in place and have acted on it." Lowe said Challenger research, conducted in January this year, showed a significant majority of retirees are worried about outliving their retirement savings, something that is intensified in uncertain times. "Without ...

Practice valuations avoid COVID-19 hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... to what it was six months ago." Connect Financial Service Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan agreed, and said the majority of the impact on valuations at the moment still comes back to "overregulation", the age of advisers and the FASEA requirements. ...

Processes are the problem, not people: Count Financial

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
The majority of the problems faced by practices in delivering advice efficiently can be attributed to process issues not people, according to Count Financial. Countplus acquired the Count Financial from the Commonwealth Bank late last year for just ...

Hedge funds rally in April, but YTD still bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... tracked by a global database and analytics tool in the red. Despite this promising turn around, eVestment found that the majority of hedge funds were still in the red year to date, reflecting the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on market ...

Majority of ERS applications from low balance accounts: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
Over 70% of ERS applications have come from members with account balances with less than $50,000, according to analysis from AMP. AMP said members working in the hospitality, arts, recreation, manufacturing and wholesale trade industries had highest ...

APRA releases fund-level ERS data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... 106,441 requests received, it paid out 79,936 totaling $584 million. However, there were some that failed to meet the majority of requests within five days. For instance, of the 12174 requests from Intrust Super members, 8795 were paid but 73.2% took ...