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Industry super fund appoints new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... of the fund for their support over the past 12 years. During this time we have helped many thousands of people to plan and save for their retirement," Haddock said. ACSRF has 90,000 members across Catholic schools, hospitals, human services and other ...

Colonial First State awards $170m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... Zealand passive management business is headed by Caleb Orr. From June CFS will trim its platform fees, in a move it says will save $68 million in annual fees for 500,000 members.

Financial advice drags BTFG results

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... BTFG said the group's advice business was loss making and after exiting the financial advice industry, it expects to save about $280 million per annum over 2019 and 2020. Between 2008 and 2017, the group earned $534 million from its salaried financial ...

ANZ serious on cost cuts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
ANZ's chief executive said his plans for a streamlined bank should save the company roughly $1 billion by 2022. ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliot said: "We will continue to simplify and strengthen the bank, including exiting, shrinking and closing non-core ...

Colonial First State removes funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... FirstChoice Wholesale, FirstChoice Employer Super and FirstWrap Plus platforms. They are effective from June. The cuts would save members $68 million in annual fees for 500,000 members and shave $45 million off its FY20 NPAT, CBA said in company filings ...

Home buyers lack basic financial concepts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
A new report by Westpac reveals that Australians looking to purchase property are desperate for financial education. Demonstrating the need for financial advice, the Westpac Home Ownership Report found almost half of home buyers did not understand the ...

Super tax strategies a hot topic

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... "Personal deductible contributions can be made at any time during the financial year, giving people greater flexibility to save through super, which might be particularly beneficial leading up to tax time." By April people can start to better understand ...

Colonial First State makes major fee cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
Colonial First State has trimmed its platforms fees, in a move it says will save $68 million in annual fees for 500,000 members. The fee reductions apply across its FirstChoice Wholesale, FirstChoice Employer Super and FirstWrap Plus platforms. They ...

Stewardship lessons from BlackRock

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
A new report has drawn insights from BlackRock and five other giants to identify five catalysts that could speed up stewardship among asset managers. Willis Tower Watson published a paper summarising research on six large asset managers who collectively ...

Superannuation gender gap hits women early

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... women's superannuation balances from which they cannot recover. More worryingly, the study found encouraging women to save more is ineffective. "Our study provides clear evidence of the Australian labour market generating a statistically significant ...