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Under reporting of super fees harming investors: ASIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
ASIC says it is motivated by the fact that inconsistent and under reporting of superannuation fees is harming investors and as a regulator it will not allow this to continue. ASIC has also revealed it recently knocked back industry requests to extend ...

Netwealth enters fintech partnership

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
Australia's largest non-institutional platform, Netwealth, has entered an exclusive platform arrangement with a global fintech firm. Through the arrangement TipRanks will provide research on all major shares listed on US markets, to assist advisers ...

Morgan Stanley pays $123,750 penalty

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
Morgan Stanley Australia has paid a penalty of $123,750 to comply with an infringement notice handed down by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP). The MDP said it had "reasonable grounds" to believe that Morgan Stanley had contravened subsection 798H(1) ...

Hedge fund, PE allocations drive super fees: study

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
Higher allocation to riskier and less liquid asset classes is driving higher superannuation fees, according to a new study from the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR). The CIFR funded study analysed the factors influencing superannuation ...

Legg Mason Brandywine fund gets top rating again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... surpassing $500 million in assets under management in Australia, with a further $4.8 billion in other Brandywine funds or institutional mandates. The Legg Mason Brandywine fund report dated 2 September said: "Lonsec has a high conviction in the senior ...

ING DIRECT pays up for "no fees" super marketing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
ING DIRECT is returning a total of $5 million to members of its superannuation fund, Living Super, and will no longer promote the product as having "no fee" after the financial services regulator raised concerns about how fees on its cash option were ...

Super funds seeking low carbon mandates

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016

Super funds must harvest farmland

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
A global real assets manager believes there are significant tailwinds for institutional investors placing capital in agriculture over the coming years, provided the approach is diversified and global. TIAA Global Real Assets managing director John Goodreds ...

UK corporate pension deficit swells

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
The combined pension deficit of the UK's 350 largest listed companies widened £50 billion ($87 billion) in August, the increase on record. According to data from Mercer, the accounting deficit of defined benefit pension schemes for FTSE 350 companies ...

Disclosure deadlines present super challenge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
Superannuation has recently received plenty of oxygen in the political atmosphere and fund disclosure is yet another bubble quickly rising. As super funds and regulators work towards several disclosure deadlines in 2017, industry representative groups ...