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Colonial First State removes funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
Colonial First State is removing nine funds from its FirstChoice Investments menu following weak investor appetite. The removed funds include Acadian Global Managed Volatility Equity, Franklin Templeton MultiSector Bond, Milliman Managed Risk Australian ...

ME Bank adds new chair, directors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... years' experience in the digital, technology, banking and insurance industries. He was previously chief executive of One Big Switch, FiftyUp Club and Personal Insurance and chief information officer at Insurance Australia Group. Before that, held multiple ...

Superannuation fund drops fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
After switching administrators, a $15 billion superannuation fund has dropped a number of its fees. CareSuper has removed several fees from 1 April 2019, including contribution splitting fees ($50), family law splitting fees ($40) and exit fee on withdrawals ...

Former Dover, Securitor adviser banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
An adviser formerly licenced by Dover Financial Advisers has been banned for failing to provide advice in the best interest of clients. Peter Anthony Chigwidden has been banned for five years following an ASIC investigation. Chigwidden licensed by Dover ...

Chief economist update: The bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... higher crude oil prices lifts inflation. This could dissuade or prevent central banks from following through on their recent switch to more accommodative policies - ones that are needed to reverse the slowing global growth momentum. At the end of the ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... of Australia's (RBA) very own Financial Aggregates report - released on March 29 - doesn't convince the board to switch from its current "neutral stance" to an interest rate cut very, very soon, by the time it does - and it will - it might be ...

Industry Super Holdings slammed for weapons investment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... uncomfortable with their super fund's investment in such companies and would consider switching funds. Those that are likely to switch funds were mainly female. Saudi Arabia has been accused of committing human rights atrocities as part of the ongoing ...

Barefoot Investor boosts Rest indexed options demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
Rest is seeing an uptake to its recently launched low-cost indexed options thanks to the Barefoot Investor. Rest chief executive Vicki Doyle says since launching three indexed options last December, the influence of Barefoot Investor Scott Pape in simplifying ...

NFP super funds rise to occasion post-Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... of retail funds during 2018, while profit-to-member funds received record inflows. It wasn't just members who made the switch, employers did too. "Outraged at some of the behaviour and practices uncovered by the Royal Commission they decided to change ...

Jamieson Coote Bonds introduces global fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... Germany, Italy (Europe ex-UK Core), UK and Japan, as well as satellite countries. It is also offered with the option to switch between Australian-dollar hedged (to $USD) and Australian-dollar unhedged. Financial Standard first reported about the global ...