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Model portfolio growth up 70%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... this number to increase given the market's push for ESG products that is currently underway for managed funds and superannuation products." Rainmaker found 41% of managed account models are in equities asset sectors, 49% in diversified offerings and ...

Pension fund in divestment hoax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
Global climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion has come under fire after it posed as Sweden's largest pension fund and claimed it was divesting from all companies with operations in fossil fuels. On June 29 a website purporting to be that ...

QSuper culls comprehensive advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... needs. In the last three years, less than 1% of the fund's 585,000 members accessed comprehensive advice via the superannuation fund. It employs 61 advisers. The closure comes into effect on July 6. Instead, QSuper will expand its personal advice offering ...

Mirae drops fees on Asian equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... $1.2 billion. "Over the last two years we've been working closely with investment professionals across Australia's superannuation and financial advice markets," Mirae head of Australian business development Don Gunawan said. "Investors have shared with ...

Colonial First State cops licence conditions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... arrangements, may not have been in its members' best interests, APRA said. APRA has not concluded that the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 was breached, but it is concerned as to the adequacy of CFSIL's internal processes for demonstrating ...

Industry fund eyes KiwiSaver accounts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
A $3.4 billion industry superannuation fund has struck an exclusive partnership which it hopes will help it attract 3000 new members each year. First Super, which traditionally services the paper and timber industry but is public offer, will now be ...

Mandates from superannuation funds slow

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
Superannuation fund awarded only 30 mandates in the three months to March totaling $2.5 billion, down significantly from the December quarter's 63 totaling $8.6 billion, new data from Rainmaker Information shows. International equities strategies ...

COVID-19 stimulus continues

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... December 2020 for Australian businesses with annual turnover of less than $500 million. Temporary early access to superannuation will continue, with some who accessed their super last financial year now able to access a second sum. Eligible Australian ...

Super for women under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
A financial adviser has questioned whether superannuation needs to be tailored to women specifically, as female focussed funds - such as Verve and Fairvine - grow in popularity. Lusher Financial Services adviser Christine Lusher said she does not think ...

AMP should stop whining: Slater and Gordon

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... lobby and that big business doesn't want to have to worry about customers taking them to court. "AMP charged dead superannuation customers for life insurance, knowing there was no longer any life to insure. Then they were accused of lying to the ASIC. ...