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Magellan flags risk plan for Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
Magellan chairman Brett Cairns has publically addressed the risk of anything happening to "key man" Hamish Douglass, reassuring investors that a plan of succession is in place. Addressing shareholders at the investment firm's annual general meeting ...

Buffett fires back at Trump tax claims

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has hit back at Donald Trump's criticism of his tax affairs in the latest presidential debate by publishing tax returns showing he's never used the tax deduction exploited by the Republican nominee. During the debate ...

Bank life risk businesses lose market share

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Bank-owned insurers including CommInsure and NAB/MLC have lost some of their share of the life insurance risk market to the likes of TAL and AIA owing to significant falls in the sale of new premiums, the latest data from Strategic Insight shows. Numbers ...

Perpetual Global Share Fund strengthens defence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Perpetual has upped the cash weighting in its Global Share Fund and decreased its exposure to cyclical stocks on concerns the end of the economic cycle is approaching. The fund has increased its cash allocation to 18%, up from a five-and-a-half year ...

Legg Mason, AB funds highly recommended

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
The Legg Mason Martin Currie Equity Income Trust and the AB Managed Volatility Equities Fund have received highly recommended ratings from Lonsec in the research house's latest review. Launched in 2011, the Legg Mason Martin Currie Equity Income Trust ...

Life Insurance Code targets self-regulation

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
An independent committee will have the ability to sanction insurers who do not comply with a new set of standards laid out in an industry-wide Life Insurance Code of Practice produced by the Financial Services Council (FSC). The new code, released today ...

EAM Investors wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
Pacific Current Group's specialist global small and micro-cap boutique manager, EAM Investors, has won its first Australian institutional mandate. IOOF Investments has added the fund manager's Emerging Markets Small Cap Strategy to its IOOF MultiMix ...

The best marketing is no marketing for advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
Few advisers have a proactive referral strategy but with a few easy steps they can improve their chances of being recommended, according to Scott Charlton, a business coach who specialises in helping accountants and financial planners. Addressing delegates ...

LIF to be introduced this week

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The legislation for the Life Insurance Framework will be formally introduced into parliament this week, the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer has confirmed. Responding to questions from industry journalists at the AFA National ...

Former AustralianSuper chair joins ME board

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
Industry fund-owned bank ME has appointed a former AustralianSuper chair as a non-executive director. Elana Rubin joined the ME board on 4 October. She has more than 20 years' experience as a non-executive director on private, government and not-for-profit ...