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Fund Manager of the Year revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... infrastructure and international equities investing. Zenith said the awards were in recognition of Magellan's investment team, quality of business, focus on retail investor outcomes, and integrated risk management framework, which has resulted in outstanding ...

SMSFs not for everybody: ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... time, costs, risks and obligations associated with establishing and running one." Pointing to ASIC report 575 on the quality of advice and member experiences in SMSFs, Press said members with low balances and a limited ability to make future contributions ...

Macquarie, Tasplan and QIC shuffle airports

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
Macquarie's infrastructure arm picked up one airport, and dumped another. In the space of only a couple of days, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets purchased the United Kingdom's only dedicated business airport, Farnborough Airport and sold its ...

Australia slips in global retirement ranks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... ranks nations by retirement outcomes - assessing key areas like health, finances in retirement, material wellbeing and quality of life. Australia's slip in the rankings came as a result of lower year-on-year scores in quality of life and finances. Natixis ...

What fundies seek in an asset consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... from 7% to 12.5%) and independence (5.4% to 7.1%). Meanwhile respondents gave less weight to an asset consultant's quality of personnel (down from 42.6% to 33.9%) and thought leadership was down slightly (13.9% to 14.3%). "While the quality of personnel ...

Super Consumers Australia launches, slams MySuper products

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... focus of the five-person team, it said, is ensuring people do not end up in underperforming funds and improving the quality of life insurance policies offered through superannuation. Australia currently has four major superannuation industry lobby groups ...

Investors must monitor social mood: Nikko

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... recently seen the necessity of changing with the times. Fulton showed examples of the multinational working to improve quality of life for farmers and their families in the regions where its coffee beans are produced. He also showed a Nespresso ad where ...

Beware dodgy auditors, sudden CFO moves: Plato

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... building it up and we're still adding to it," Hamson said. One of the other significant red flags Plato will reveal is the quality of the auditor - Hamson said most large listed companies should be audited by the big four. A listed company being audited ...

Train of legislation to hit advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... about certain bad behaviour has tarnished an entire sector of the community. "A few bad apples shouldn't diminish the quality of the entire crop," Bishop said. "The Royal Commission has been challenging and will continue to be challenging for the entire ...

ASIC clamps down on poor advice, grandfathered commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... practice. Another initiative over the next five years is examining the effectiveness of measures aiming to improve the quality of advice. This will include scoping and commencing the work - which will involve a large number of advice file reviews, ASIC ...