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Mercer issues super fund imperatives

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... in 2016, the consultant urges super funds to become more focused on outcome based investment strategies and be more proactive in reviewing their post-retirement offerings. Mercer director of strategic research Hendrie Koster said many super investment ...

Margin lenders tighten policies after ASIC review

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... agreed to stop approving double geared asset-lend margin loans. "ASIC is pleased with the industry's response to our proactive review and its commitment to standards that give appropriate consideration to the potentially significant risks that a double ...

Vision Super calling all low balance members

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... where we will go out and look for any other lost super accounts, and bring it altogether," Rowe said. "Funds need to be proactive and assist members to consolidate their super. Simply transferring all inactive accounts to the ATO may not be in the best ...

Super funds eye impact investing structures

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... that, we are trying to introduce the discussion around the board table, to start building awareness and to look at the proactive role that trustees can have in the community." He said that the key for superannuation funds to look at impact investing ...

Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Australian Ethical Investment has awarded $300,000 in community grants this month to support a number of causes both in Australia and globally. The manager is committed to donate 10% of its pre-tax profits to organisations that make a positive difference ...

Myonlineadvisers teams up with US robo firm

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... the ongoing automatic reconciliations will deliver even greater value to their clients. Everyone wins. It is online, proactive and robust." Rixtrema has been operating its portfolio management and crash testing engine since 2010. Among its clients it ...

GFC drove advisers to managed accounts

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... Heather, Paradigm Wealth Management managing director Patrick Nalty said managed accounts allowed his firm to become "proactive rather than reactive" in times of market volatility. "We had a house view before the GFC that we needed to determine at what ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... in the business of assessing and taking on risk." "There are many risks with VC but provided you are an engaged and proactive investor, those risks are not as great as one may think. When we think about the threat of disrupting technologies, it could ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has delayed the interest rate lift off; supporting Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass' view that tightening will be drawn out over many years. Presenting to some 800 advisers at Sydney's Westin Hotel ...

Women fail to break into the industry's last boys club

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... organisation and no one talked to them. Since I've joined full time I have approached them and they have been quite proactive," she said. US-based research by Morningstar found that only 9% of US open-end fund managers were females and that women exclusively ...