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Contrarian manager enters super sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... Australia is offering self-directed investors and financial advisers an ability to invest superannuation and retirement funds across a bank-free investment menu of about 60 managed funds with a prominent focus on fee transparency. Allan Gray Australia ...

Super fund launches renewable energy investment option

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... fuels, 350.org founder Bill McKibben said. "This happened because ordinary people decided they didn't want their retirement funds fuelling climate change," he added. Future Super manages more than $350 million on behalf of 11,000 members has financed ...

Financial Synergy founder launches new firm

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... currently 65 years. Today more than 50 percent of retirees live longer, creating a significant risk each pensioner's retirement funds may run out before they die. Longevity risk is the least understood risk by most working Australians," Orford said. ...

Industry fund and wealth manager finalise integration

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... will be responsible for the management of $84 billion, including the administration of more than $21 billion in retirement funds with over 200 financial planners located in metropolitan and regional centres throughout Australia. First State Super and ...

Competition would save Australians millions in super fees: Deloitte

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... and deterring investment in some growth assets. "It's not clear that this is an optimal outcome for longer-term retirement funds," the firm said. The Productivity Commission is currently undertaking a wide-ranging review of the efficiency and competitiveness ...

First State Super appoints CFO

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... member-owned financial planning network in Australia. The combined StatePlus business administers over $21 billion in retirement funds with over 200 financial planners located in metropolitan and regional centres throughout Australia.

Super consolidation imminent: research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... utilised scale to offer better rounded products and services to their members, in part to try to slow the outflow of retirement funds to SMSFs. Smaller funds will find themselves unable to compete effectively as this continues, and the upcoming framework ...

Top 10 financial planning stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... member-owned financial planning network in Australia. The combined business administers more than $21 billion in retirement funds with more than 200 financial planners located in metropolitan and regional centres throughout Australia. 6. $1m does not ...

QSuper on track to become public offer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... history, the fund remained focused on its current members and their financial wellbeing. "QSuper looks after the retirement funds of one in five working Queenslanders and that's a responsibility we take very seriously," Pennisi said. "Our single-minded ...

Asset owners, managers not prepped for blockchain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... 48 asset managers and 42 asset owners, including asset management firms and both public and private pension or retirement funds across Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.