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PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
"I love the fact that Melbourne has lots of immigrants and great, multicultural suburbs," she says, comparing it to the quiet suburb in Durban, South Africa, where she spent most of her childhood and early years of her adult life. A computer programmer ...

SMSF the next frontier for robo advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Australia's self-managed super fund market will be the next frontier for robo advice but it is not a threat to financial planners according to a recent report from FinDigital and Ignition Wealth. The report, which reviewed 45 robo advice offerings ...

Aurora appoints OneVue founding member

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Aurora has appointed Stephen Karrasch as its new head of distribution. Prior to Aurora, Karrasch held roles at Macquarie Bank and Rothschild Australia. He was a founding member of OneVue and was most recently head of sales at Philo Capital Advisers. ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Future Fund managing director David Neal has expressed concern at the lack of safe, liquid investments available for institutional investors to deploy their vast amounts of cash. Asked at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Investment ...

Mercer announces internal promotions

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
Global consulting group Mercer has made two internal promotions, seeing a new president of growth markets region as well as a new managing director and market leader for the Pacific region. Mercer president and chief executive Julio A. Portalatin announced ...

ClearView predicts end of independent financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
The recommended restrictions and levelling of commission levels and upfront payments in the FSI and Trowbridge reports could drive independent advisers completely out of business, according to ClearView's FSI submission. The submission suggested that ...

FIIG launches Amazon-inspired bond platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
Fixed income broker FIIG Securities has launched an online ordering system for corporate bonds which simplifies buying and selling bonds in the over-the-counter market. Clients and financial advisers can use the system to browse a range of bonds, access ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
Pencil it in, carve it on concrete... 2015 will be the year that the US Federal Reserve lifts its federal funds rate target for the first time since bringing it down to 0-0.25% -- and nailing it there -- a long, long time ago (16 December 2008). Only ...

Competition for annuities likely to remain low

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
Competition in the annuities market will increase, but is likely to remain low over the short term as Challenger dominates about 95% of the market, a Credit Suisse report found. Credit Suisse said that Challenger's natural competitors, banks and life ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
The majority of institutional investors see environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns as being an important part of their investment philosophy for alternative assets. This finding is derived from Global Insights on 'ESG in alternative investing ...