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Funds are 'getting back to basics', says report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
Global public pension funds and sovereign funds are refocusing on generating long-term returns, generally targeting opportunities in private markets, emerging markets, and green assets, according to the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum ...

Super funds should focus on 'simple' advice: Jones

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... as having a solution for people who've got higher incomes, and that's what these reforms will do. It will meet that big retirement wave that we've got coming across us." By not doing it, Jones said he fears Australians will increasingly turn ...

Sally Auld to take on chief economist role at NAB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
... also to the NAB Economics team for your dedication and support," Oster said. "Throughout the journey there have been some big moments I will never forget, including the GFC and COVID pandemic." Auld, who will start to transition into the role on 14 February ...

The sensitive conversations advisers shy away from

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
... Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania - recognise coercive control as a standalone event, she said. "It's really a big movement in Australia at the moment, given the horrendous domestic violence that's been happening and murders of women... ...

Firms treat CSLR as 'insurance policy': FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... there are large systemic issues like [Dixon Advisory], the policies that you're able to access - nothing is going to be big enough to cover all of those losses," she said, noting that PI insurers do not insure for illegal behaviour or fraud. "The ...

InvestSense marks 10th birthday

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... management by 233% while its team has grown 33% in the past 12 months. "When we started a decade ago, we were a small team with big ideas about managed accounts. SMAs were just emerging, and the industry was still discovering its potential. Fast forward ...

'New class of advisers' need clear-cut distinction: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... extremely important that the education for NCAs be able to count towards the full financial planning degree, one of the two big opportunities that we see in this proposal is that the NCAs of today can become the professional financial advisers of the ...

Brighter Super makes fee, death benefit changes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
Brighter Super is reducing administration fees from January 1, while also introducing a weekly account keeping fee. It's also changing the way death benefits are dealt with. Effective January, the annual percentage-based admin fee charged to Brighter ...

Can technology help advisers service the masses?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... will be in doing both in terms of adoption of technology and change management within practices [and so forth]," he said. The big challenge to platforms such as CFS, HUB24, Netwealth, North and so forth, he predicts, is not competition or the threat ...

Performance the best member retention tool: Mine Super

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... resilience, and noted members expectation have shifted significantly over the past decade. "Operational resilience is the big thing that has been coming through the last 10 years, and with CPS 230 the regulators are now landing the plane in relation ...